http://www.integerleadership.com Teaching Leaders to Lead from a place of Wholeness, Resilience, and Authenticity Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:55:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new film featured at the Sundance Film Festival, The Company Men, explores the psychological, emotional, and behavioral aspects of involuntary job loss. Though only the trailer is available at this time, it captures the devastating impact of involuntary termination. I have just concluded my dissertation which addresses The Psychological ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2010/01/23/the-company-men-a-sundance-film-festival-feature-3/ If there is one thing that has become evident in my research on involuntary job loss it is this: unemployment causes systemic anxiety and stress in the individual which also carries the specter for devastating consequences regarding longer-term emotional well-being. With the national unemployment rate hovering around 10% I am ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/12/14/stress-anxiety-unemployment/ How does one stay hopeful in the midst of what is one of life’s most stressful experiences: unemployment? There are factors that, if they are in place, make the resolve to press-ahead a-bit easier. Conversely, if they are not in place, finding enough hope to maintain belief that reemployment is ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/09/09/staying-hopeful-while-unemployed/ For those of you who visit the Integer Leadership website often, you know I am particularly focused on understanding the psychological impact of involuntary job loss. I am beginning the research phase of my Ph.D work and am requesting your help in locating the right individuals for my study. If ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/08/20/requesting-your-help-with-my-phd-research/ Here's a helpful article that emphasises the importance of gaining emotional control after an involuntary job loss. It's extremely difficult protraying a postive, confident image when your life is unravelling due to unexpected job loss. Furthermore, though Korkki is helpful here, she may be underestimating the difficulty of recovering psychologically ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/08/20/accentuating-the-positive-after-a-layoff-by-phyllis-korkki-nyt-august-15-2009/ How do leaders build stability during unstable times? How do we human beings find security in the midst of insecurity that comes from unpredictability? Before we can do anything for others as leaders, managers, colleagues, friends, or family, we must settle this issue for ourselves, in our own minds and ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/08/10/learning-to-live-with-the-meaninglessness-that-emerges-from-incomprehensibility/ This is a thought-provoking editorial on the moral dilemma of organizational layoffs. The question is this, "Does the organization laying off employees have a moral obligation to those employees?" This is clearly a vexing question. Some would argue that, in fact, "no," organizations have no moral obligation to employees when ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/06/01/when-layoffs-are-immoral-by-randy-cohen-from-the-nyt-may-26-2009/ I came across this article this morning as I prepared for one of my human relations in organizations classes. Gilbert, based on my own research on psychological trauma and posttraumatic growth, is not only accurate in his assessment but very helpful for those who work with post-secondary students and who ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/05/21/what-you-don%e2%80%99t-know-makes-you-nervous-from-nyt-online-52109-authored-by-daniel-gilbert-phd/ One of the reasons that termination and unemployment exacts a toll on one’s psychological well-being is that we are too deeply connected to our work. In addressing the psychological meaning of employment, Freud (1930) observed that work was man’s strongest tie to reality and its reversal, unemployment, can loosens man’s ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/04/25/work-and-existential-meaning/ The untold story about involuntary job loss is that individuals take a tremendous psychological hit. The USATODAY link, though somewhat dated at this point, begins to go into greater detail. The work of the Gallup-Healthways index (http://www.well-beingindex.com/) as well as the Usatoday story (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-11-stress-poll_N.htm) presents data that supports the precipitous ... http://www.integerleadership.com/2009/03/27/the-psychological-impact-of-involuntary-job-loss/