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Leadership and People Management

Hanging in the Balance: Technology and the Blurring of Work-Family Boundaries

Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, Nuria; Grau, Marc

Technology is blurring the boundaries between work and family realms. Is it possible for the modern worker to avoid overload and live a fulfilling life at home and in the office? The Work-Family Balance in Light of Globalization and Technology is a new book offering research-backed hope, with strategies and policies to help find equipoise.

Leadership and People Management

Career Prospects in Spain Continue to Improve in 2017

Visintin, Stefano; Elvira, Marta
The labor market in Spain is increasingly dynamic and a measure of this "labor dynamism" recorded an all-time high in the third quarter of 2017. Notably, one in four employees had a change in their work status not involving the creation or elimination of jobs.

Strategy

Penalty Shootouts: How to Reduce an Unfair Advantage by 74 to 85 Percent

Vandebroek, Tom; McCann, B.; Vroom, Govert
More than 60 percent of the time, the team that kicks first in a penalty shootout in soccer eventually wins. But new rules can reduce that first-kick advantage by a resounding 74 to 85 percent, says a team of international researchers who devised a formal model to better understand psychological pressure at work.