This is the fourth in a series of five posts about the big drivers of threat and reward in the brain. So far I have posted about status, certainty and relatedness. This week let's explore the issue of ...

Popular in the business world, open-plan offices are spaces full of possibilities, but also where true employee autonomy is difficult to achieve. Freedom and independence in decision-making can bring ...

But money isn’t the best predictor of overall happiness and a sense of well-being. A study published in Journal of ...

Being married can feel like you’re at risk of losing your independence or your autonomy. How do you and your spouse keep a perspective of yourselves both as individuals and as a couple at the same ...

“A major tenet of liberation is having the freedom to define oneself.” I composed this line many years ago when anyone attempted to define me and my social identities. It came to mind when my good ...

When teachers at A.D. Henderson School, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. Nationally, most teachers report feeling ...

Many students experience independence for the first time in college. I found this newfound independence when I went to live in Washington, D.C., this summer to intern at a local nonprofit organization ...

In an expansion of his written three-part series for PharmTech, Jason Bryant of ArisGlobal explains the interplay between ...

As both a professor and an organizational consultant for over two decades, I have seen firsthand how micromanagement can seep into organizational cultures like a virus, slowly destroying employee ...

Hewlett-Packard surprised many investors and channel partners last September when it acquired U.K.-based information management software vendor Autonomy for $10.3 billion. Since then, HP has rolled ...