"Too many people view their jobs as a five-day prison from which they are paroled every Friday," says Joel Gookman, founder of The Humor Project, a humor-consulting group in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job.
According to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennesse, Knoxville, an office with humor breaks is an office with satisfied and productive employees. Pollio conducted a study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production task. Employees perform better when they have fun.
In large corporations with a hierarchy of power, there is often no outlet for stress, "Every company needs underground ways of poking fun at the organization," says Lynn M. Mark, a speaker on workplace humor for St. Mary’s Health Center in St. Louis.
Kodak’s Rochester, N.Y., branch discovered a way for its 20,000 employe
A. don’t have enough after-work activities
B. are angry with their boss
C. are childlike
D. are people with humor
"Too many people view their jobs as a five-day prison from which they are paroled every Friday," says Joel Gookman, founder of The Humor Project, a humor-consulting group in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job.
According to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennesse, Knoxville, an office with humor breaks is an office with satisfied and productive employees. Pollio conducted a study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production task. Employees perform better when they have fun.
In large corporations with a hierarchy of power, there is often no outlet for stress, "Every company needs underground ways of poking fun at the organization," says Lynn M. Mark, a speaker on workplace humor for St. Mary’s Health Center in St. Louis.
Kodak’s Rochester, N.Y., branch discovered a way for its 20,000 employe
A. the door of an office is always locked
B. the office workers have no freedom
C. there is no work break in the office
D. the atmosphere in the office is solemn
Are we "Math People" or "English People"
The earliest hint of verbal dexterity is enough to earn a language ability label while the slightest struggle with a mathematical concept might as well come with a forehead stamped "{{U}}mathematically inept{{/U}}."
"The common wisdom in the United States is that mathematical ability is somehow innate, and there are people who, no matter how hard they try, will not be able to achieve in mathematics," said A1 Cuoco, director of the Center for Mathematics Education at Educational Department Center Inc, a nonprofit in Newton, who has taught math since the late 1960s.
Struggling in math is socially acceptable, while having trouble reading is reason for worry. Why the stigma around numbers
Cuoco said the belief that you’ve got a math gene is "an American phenomenon." In the United States, he said, "kids from a very young age are put into two categories:
A. decided by struggle in mathematics
B. nothing but an inborn ability
C. likely to be achieved at an older age
D. socially acceptable
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