This study of women and men leaders highlights new findings on what women want in the workplace and why organizations should want women. Key findings on why organizations should want women: • Participants from organizations with a higher percentage of women rated their organizations more favorably on 7 items related to job satisfaction, organizational dedication, burnout, and employee engagement. • Participants with female bosses felt more supported (especially female participants) and experienced less job-related burnout.
A growing amount of research has demonstrated the key role that sleep plays in both leadership effectiveness and overall organizational performance. However, less research has explored the everyday sleep habits of leaders or their beliefs about sleep. As a result, the field of consulting psychology has little knowledge regarding common sleep difficulties among leaders and organizations and the most effective ways to help. This article aims to address this issue. We surveyed 384 leaders and professionals about their sleep patterns, beliefs, attitudes, and problems across different leadership levels. Overall, we found a generally sleep-deprived population whose primary barriers to sleep have to do with work, and in particular a failure to psychologically detach from it. We also found evidence of common, yet faulty, beliefs about sleep loss, productivity, and success that run the risk of initiating and maintaining unhealthy sleep patterns. We conclude with methods and strategies to help individual leaders and organizations prevent, manage, and cope with the sleep issues uncovered in our study.
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