Energizing your team: boundaries, balance, and identity, with Blake Ashforth

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Gemma Milne talks with Blake Ashforth, a professor of management and entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, about balancing strong work engagement with overwork or burnout, the impact a company’s brand has on employee identity, the importance of choice in work from home policies, and the connection between shifting management mindsets and transforming work culture.

About Blake Ashforth:

Blake is the Regent’s Professor and Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair of the W.P. Carey Management and Entrepreneurship department at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. His research focuses on how organizations and individuals affect each other. He also investigates how things go wrong in organizations from corporate corruption to burnout. His most recent work explores how individuals find dignity in stigmatized occupations and the importance of respect to employees.

Learn more:

https://wpcarey.asu.edu/people/profile/8212

Topics of discussion

  • How employees can find a sense of identity and engagement in a digitally enabled world (02:43)
  • The impact of working from home on how employees manage their work and nonwork roles (05:17)
  • The importance of maintaining boundaries and routines (09:51)
  • Advice for managers about balancing how to drive and motivate their teams, as well as support them (19:56)
  • Understanding that burnout is not just an individual problem, it’s an organizational problem (22:47)
  • The risks of short-term thinking (29:03)
  • What companies should be doing now to understand employee needs (31:48)

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