How to Stay Motivated During Lockdown ft. COVID-19

Team IIBP Anveshan, Emotional Intelligence, General Psychology, Issue 16, Mental Health, Volume 2

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill Amidst this seemingly endless lockdown, having lost the motivation to do anything is quite normal. After all, what’s the point of doing anything if you’re waking up just to spend yet another day under house arrest? It’s getting harder for people to ...

Managing Organizational Crisis through Emotional Intelligence

Team IIBP Anveshan, Emotional Intelligence, General Psychology, Issue 16, Mental Health, Volume 2

“EQ training is a ‘must do’ training needed by all leaders in organizations. We need it personally for growth, and our employees need us to be self-aware of our emotional footprint on the people we work with.” – Joni Earl, CEO Sound Transit Crisis is very much part of our lives. It comes out of nowhere and surprises us. Covid-19 ...

Unpaid Internships in India: Does the Learning Outcome and Experience Equate to a Stipend?

Team IIBP General Psychology

Abstract Internships in India are now gaining more momentum than ever. Often prioritizing them over academics and grades, students today are in competition to obtain internships and make their resumes and profiles more attractive. Due to this, the number of internships on offer is rising, many of them being of an unpaid nature where interns receive no stipend for the …

Wellbeing in Workplaces for 2022

Team IIBP Anveshan, Business Psychology, Employee Health, Employee wellbeing, General Psychology, Issue 12, Mental Health, Occupational Health, Volume 2

This article addresses the need for well-being initiatives in the workplace as a silver bullet for thriving organizations. It covers highlights from 2021 that lay the ground for setting processes in organizations supporting positive mental health as an outcome. Lastly, I offer suggestions on creating a baseline to address these issues. 2022 is still a year of recovery from the …

Collective sensemaking in the period of uncertainty and global crisis the Covid-19

Team IIBP Anveshan, Business Psychology, General Psychology, Issue 12

Uncertainty is at the forefront of many crises, disasters, and emergencies, and the COVID-19 pandemic with the arrival of third-wave is no exception. We, as psychologists are concerned with the coming of organizational pressures on the team workers and changing patterns of behavior of staff members owing to new challenges both in the structure and administrative field. We can begin …

Don’t be a follower, be a leader; End the chain of the bystander effect

Umani Agarwal General Psychology Leave a Comment

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone”. Very few people actually have the courage to stand out or stand alone and take the road less travelled. The majority take the easier path of blindly following the crowd. In most cases, this is a decision that one takes unconsciously as the phenomenon is deeply engraved …

Satisficers and Maximisers: The cultural impact on decision-making styles

Shalinee Tripathi General Psychology 2 Comments

The freedom of choice has become deeply ingrained in our social fabric.  The ‘satisficing’ concept was first proposed by Herbert A. Simon, who created the portmanteau by combining the words ‘satisfying’ and ‘sufficing’. He developed the idea in 1956 as a way of explaining a particular form of decision-making known or cognitive heuristic. Simon believed that when satisficers are presented with …