BITC Report: Your job can be good for you
55% of workers feel they can’t switch off from work (e.g. they feel pressure to check work emails or calls outside working hours).
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Recovery, work engagement, and proactive behaviour
Individuals who feel that they sufficiently recover during leisure time experience a higher level of work engagement during the subsequent work day.
This high level of work engagement in turn helps them in taking initiative and pursuing learning goals.
Should entrepreneurs plan or just storm the castle? A meta-analysis on contextual factors impacting the business planning–performance relationship in small firms
The findings of this study determine a positive relationship between business planning and performance.
Routinization, free cognitive resources and creativity: The role of individual and contextual contingencies
By creating and sticking to a routine, cognitive resources aren’t wasted on small decisions, etc
Planning helps free up cognitive resources, which in turn helps identify priorities.
Recovery during Lunch Breaks: Testing Long-Term Relations with Energy Levels at Work
Recovering from work stress can restore energy and mental resources and decrease the development of fatigue, sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease.
Are formal planners more likely to achieve new venture viability? A counterfactual model and analysis
Planning tends to up the chance of business success by between 10% and 20%.
Plans help generate agreement, surface assumptions, ensure things aren’t missed, and highlight potential dangers.
Multitasking: Switching costs
Studies consistently show that multitasking is inefficient.
Shifting between tasks can cost you up to 40% of productive time.
Offline memory consolidation during waking rest
Rest can facilitate the consolidation of newly formed memories. Even a few minutes of rest with closed eyes can improve memory, perhaps to the same degree as a full night of sleep.
Fatigue-related impairment in the speed, accuracy and variability of psychomotor performance: comparison with blood alcohol levels
17 hours of sustained wakefulness, such as a long day in the office, has been shown to result in behavioural changes equivalent to drinking 2 glasses of wine.
After 24 hours, you may act as if you have drunk 4 glasses of wine. Diminished cognitive performance can have huge repercussions for professionals whose jobs demand critical attention to detail, such as surgeons, pilots, and drivers.
“You wouldn’t like me when I’m sleepy”: Leaders’ sleep, daily abusive supervision, and work unit engagement
Poor quality sleep can result in bad leadership and an un-productive team.
It is associated with leader daily abusive behaviours and ego depletion, which in turn affects work engagement and performance.