Management: Who’s In Your Organizational Wonderland?
From a new employee’s perspective your organization might resemble Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice fell down a hole and encountered a world with strange new rules and an assortment of weird characters.
Does your work place have any characters like these from Wonderland?
· The White Rabbit always running around stressed and harried saying things like, “I’m late, I’m late for a very important date, no time to say hello, goodbye, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late”.
· The Queen of Hearts, the ruler in Wonderland. She is severe, dominating, childishly cruel and always screaming and yelling at her subjects, “Off with their heads!”
· The King of Hearts who is ineffectual, but often quotes the rules. He does however undo some of the Queen’s cruel sentences.
· The Cheshire Cat who
Stressed employees are not the best, most effective employees. If you and your staff are undergoing major changes, a busy business cycle, end of the year budgets or other stressful events, you may want to know that new research puts a new light on the age-old idea that all people respond to stress with the “fight or flight” response. Until rather recently 90% of the research on stress has been done with men. Women, it turns out, have an additional response to stress. Researchers have termed it the “tend and befriend” response. According to a landmark study conducted by four women researchers at UCLA, a chemical named oxytocin is released in women who are in stress.
