34 pages tagged "work-life balance"

CYG: Career stage CYGs
19 Dec 2024 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introductory page for our new career stage CYGs [Cygna special interest groups]

Every little action counts booklet now available
24 Sep 2025 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Announces the publication of Positive Academia's first booklet

Take care of the little ants
29 Jan 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
One of the most funny and sad stories about office politics I have ever read

Seven signs it’s time to get out: spotting toxic collaborations in academia
23 Jan 2023 - Martyna Śliwa
Advice on how to spot the signs that a collaborative relationship isn’t nourishing to us and is possibly not worth continuing

Be proactive, resilient & realistic!
07 Jan 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Argues that as an academic you are an independent professional shaping your own career

CYGNA: Work intensification, well-being and career advancement
08 Dec 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 29th CYGNA meeting dealing with workloads and work intensification

CYGNA: Thriving in Research and Coping with Uncertainties
14 Jun 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 53rd CYGNA meeting: combining career development with relaxing and invigorating conversations

CYGNA: End of 2024 celebration - ABC of research careers, Christmas carols and more...
22 Jan 2025 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 62nd CYGNA meeting - two hours filled with learning and fun

CYGNA: Working effectively with support staff in academia
06 Mar 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 18th CYGNA meeting with a presentation on working with support staff and a discussion of boundaryless careers

Cygna Collaborations
19 Dec 2024 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collation page for our new Cygna collaborations initiative - this page reports on some of the many collaborations our swans have engaged in across the CYGNA network in the past decade

CYGNA @EIBA Madrid 2021
14 Feb 2022 - Ciara O’Higgins
Report and pictures by members of the CYGNA network at the EIBA conference

How to prepare a large-scale ESRC funding application?
27 Feb 2023 - Bianca Stumbitz
Seminar in the Management, Leadership & Organizations Department seminar series at Middlesex University

Get Ready, Set, Go: The Doctoral Research Journey and Top Tips Workshop
22 Jan 2025 - Susanna Menis
Joining CYGNA fostered belonging, empowered collaboration, and enriched my personal and academic growth.

CYGNA: Past, present, and future
06 Nov 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 54th CYGNA meeting where we discussed the network's history, its expanded coordination team, and our exciting plans for the future

CYGNA: REF and Christmas during a pandemic
05 Jan 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 36th CYGNA meeting with a presentation on REF and A Christmas celebration

CYGNA: Secret Santa at the 2nd pandemic Christmas
17 Jan 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 44th CYGNA meeting with a Secret Santa Christmas celebration

How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia
12 May 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides thirteen suggestions on how to prevent burn-out and keep your sanity

CYGNA: Our 4th Christmas meeting - failure & fun
08 Jan 2024 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 56th CYGNA meeting - two hours filled with stories about rejections in journal publishing, secret santa, and new year resolutions

CYGNA: Kind and inclusive networking
26 Apr 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 52nd meeting of the CYGNA network dealing with the why, where and how of networking in CYGNA

1st CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: Coping with a Pandemic
06 Jun 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 31st CYGNA meeting - our first virtual meeting dealing with work-life balance during a pandemic

CYGNA @50 and Christmas celebration 2022
16 Jan 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 50th (!!!) CYGNA meeting. Strikes thwarted our big plans, but we still had fun.

CYGNA: The wonderful world of book publishing
12 Dec 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 35th CYGNA meeting with three publishers discussing textbooks, research books and practice books

When to say no?
25 Mar 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Criteria for saying no: Just because you can do something doesn't mean you always should do something

CYGNA: Female leadership in Higher Education
29 Oct 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 33rd CYGNA meeting - our first in a full academic year of online meetings

Performance in the workplace: what’s dance got to do with it?
13 Jun 2022 - Michela Vecchi
Summarizes a recent study on the effect of dance on well-being and productivity at work

CYGNA: Be nice AND get the corner office
02 Apr 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 21st CYGNA meeting with an emphasis on negotiating your employment conditions

2nd CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: MBTI & Stress
16 Jul 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 32nd CYGNA meeting - our second virtual meeting discussing stress trigger factors for different MBTI types

Wives of the organization - 30 years on...
08 Mar 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating International Women's day with a reprint of a post on Anne Huff's classic treatise that has lost none of its potency

Female academics: Wives of the organization?
14 Apr 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Describes how gendered interactions in the workplace subvert success for female academics

Citizens of the Organization
06 Feb 2016 - Anne Sigismund Huff
Closing commentary on Wives of the Organization offering suggestions on how to be a better organizational citizen

Wives of the Organization
06 Feb 2016 - Anne Sigismund Huff
An essay about how female academics often end up doing the academic equivalent of housework

Introduction to Wives of the Organization
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
An exchange between Alison Konrad and Anne Huff to introduce Wives of the Organization

Wives, Woes and Good Work: Untangling the Contradictions
06 Feb 2016 - Joyce K. Fletcher
Commentary on Wives of the Organization exploring how relational practice can become invisible work

Does Everybody Still Want a Wife?
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Commentary on Wives of the Organization arguing how we need change institutions