Employee Health from an Evolutionary Perspective

An evolutionary perspective provides a powerful way of thinking about employees' health. What I've outlined below is Zhen Zhang and Michael Zyphur's chapter on employee health and physiological functioning, in Stephen Colarelli and Richard Arvey's volume The Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior. The chapter provides a wealth of information regarding employee health and physiology, and I'll focus mainly …

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ATCG: Evolutionary Predictions for Organizational Cooperation

What follows is an overview of Michael Price (Brunel University, London) and Dominic Johnson's (Edinburgh University) 'Adaptionist Theory of Cooperation in Groups', as outlined in Gad Saad's (2011) Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences.  -- To help explain organizational cooperation from an evolutionary perspective, Price and Johnson developed the 'Adaptionist Theory of Cooperation in Groups'- abbreviated …

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