More - Ellen Galinsky Quotes

When it comes to negotiating leave, find out what your company's practices are and what kind of bad and good experiences your boss has had. An organization's response is going to be shaped by their prior experiences.

Ellen Galinsky

 

When you feel pressured and pushed, when you feel not respected, when you feel tension at work, when you feel the work that you do isn't of real value, that leads to overwork, ... Sizable portions of the U.S. work forces have these feelings.

Ellen Galinsky

 Tension

The reason I think it's gaining momentum is because of natural-disaster preparedness.

Ellen Galinsky

 Disaster

When you feel pressured and pushed, when you feel not respected, when you feel tension at work, when you feel the work that you do isn't of real value, that leads to overwork. Sizable portions of the U.S. work forces have these feelings.

Ellen Galinsky

 Tension

People who have good jobs in supportive workplaces are more committed. They're more loyal, they're more likely to stay with their own jobs, they're more likely to give their all to their jobs, to care about their company succeeding.

Ellen Galinsky

 Jobs

This study is a clarion call for all of us -- companies and individuals -- to look at how we're working.

Ellen Galinsky

 

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

Ellen Galinsky

 Children

When children are in environments that are stressful, neglected, violent, that affects formation of the brain, and can have lasting effect.

Ellen Galinsky

 Children

We are seeing a workplace in transition, shifting from models that served the needs of the 20th century to those that serve the needs of the 21st century--and most of these changes that make work 'work' for employers and employees appear to be here to stay.

Ellen Galinsky

 

You can have a policy, but there can be a culture against using it. The culture is where the rubber meets the road. It's actually what happens to people, regardless of what the policies are.

Ellen Galinsky

 Culture