by EAPA- SA | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles
Workplace bullying involves repeated, intentional acts of aggression, hostility, social isolation, or disrespect. These acts often happen face-to-face, but can also take place via email, text messaging, or social media platforms. Bullying can seriously damage a...
by EAPA- SA | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles
Do too many organisations see retirement as an event rather than an ongoing process which both the employer and employee should work towards doing well? It is well known that impending retirement can be stressful for employees. This is particularly true if they have...
by EAPA- SA | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles
Employee assistance programs (EAPs) started in the USA in the 1940s to provide a service that was primarily focused on mitigating the negative effect of alcohol use and abuse on job performance. Since then EAPs have become much broader-focused and cover a far wider...
by EAPA- SA | May 31, 2018 | Articles
What are soft skills? 1 Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes, career attributes, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients among others that enable people to navigate their...
by EAPA- SA | May 31, 2018 | Articles, News
A bad, or toxic, work environment is one in which dysfunctional, highly stressful interactions are the norm; and where supervisors and co-workers routinely mistreat each other and act in self-serving ways without considering the benefit of the whole team or...
by EAPA- SA | May 30, 2018 | Articles, News
What is productivity? The definition of productivity, according to Focus Economics, a news and research resource that supplies economic intelligence for 127 countries, is: “Productivity is considered by some to be the most important area of economics and yet one of...
