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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How have we humans become the Earth's dominant species- through our innate intelligence and our superior mental abilities? Not so, says Harvard's Joe Henrich in The Secret of Our Success. Surprisingly, primates such as chimpanzees actually eclipse humans in many forms of fluid intelligence, including working memory and information processing speed. Primates also perform better in various behavioural game theory …
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Darwinian Business 