Does supervisors’ mindfulness keep employees from engaging in cyberloafing out of compassion at work?

Engaging employees through high-involvement work practices

Does mindfulness work?

Mindfulness has been defined as the process of paying attention to the present moment in a non-judgmental manner. In the early stages of mindfulness training, awareness of breathing is typically used as an attentional anchor to regulate ruminative thinking, but mindfulness encompasses much more than observing the breath. It derives from Buddhist practice and has been the subject of empirical in...

Does screening keep Ebola out of USA?

John S Schieffelin1, Tan Xu2 and Wenjie Sun3* 1Department of Pediatrics, Section Adult & Pediatric Infectious Disease, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA 2Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2100, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA 3Department of Global Health and Environmental ...

Cyberloafing at the workplace: gain or drain on work?

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How does mindfulness-based cognitive therapy work?

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an efficacious psychosocial intervention for recurrent depression (Kuyken et al., 2008; Ma & Teasdale, 2004; Teasdale et al., 2000). To date, no compelling research addresses MBCT's mechanisms of change. This study determines whether MBCT's treatment effects are mediated by enhancement of mindfulness and self-compassion across treatment, and/or by a...