Get to Know Your Employee
Secrets of A Successful Company
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Author: Janek Musek
- Language: English
Get to Know Your Employee: Secrets of a Successful Company addresses the critical and often overlooked psychological factors that influence organizational performance and employ… Read more
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- Explains the impact of early traumatic experiences on workplace dynamics
- Provides practical strategies for managers to improve corporate culture and productivity
- Assess the neuroscientific bases of motivation and avoidance behavior
- Offers practical strategies to align organizational values with employee behavior
2. Early Experiences
2.1 Early experiences and brain development
2.2 Parenting styles, leading experiences, and generalized mindsets
2.3 Healthy development
2.4 Traumatic events and experiences
2.5 Microtraumas and complex traumas
3. Mechanisms
3.1 Early stress and defensive behavior
3.2 Developmental trauma disorder
3.3 Severe stress and stress hormones
3.4 Neuroscientific explanations
4. Loops and Cycling
4.1 Motivation
4.2 Ambivalent goals
4.3 Behavioral loops and cycling
4.4 Vicious cycle and infinity loop
4.5 Approach-avoidance behavior and vicious cycles in mental health issues
4.6 The role of trauma in cognitive looping
4.7 Neuroscientific basis of motivation and approach avoidance behavior
5. Solutions
5.1 Reassuring employees
5.2 Building job satisfaction
5.3 Corporate/organizational culture
5.4 From theory to practice
5.5 From intentions to behavior
5.6 Strength of organizational/corporate culture
6. Epilogue
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Janek Musek
Dr. Janek Musek is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Ljubljana and brings nearly five decades of experience in behavioral and organizational psychology. His teaching experience spans personality psychology, differential psychology, motivation and emotion, and cognitive psychology. In his tenure at the University of Ljubljana, Dr. Musek served as Head of the Department of Pyschology, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-Rector of the University of Ljubljana. He is the cofounder of Institute of Ethics and Values Jože Trontelj (IEV) and the Institute of Personality Psychology. Dr. Musek is best known for his development of the General Personality Factor theory, which illustrates the interconnection of the Big Five dimensions of personality. He is globally recognized for his contributions to organizational stress management, well-being, and psychological health. He has published dozens of monographs, including Elsevier's The General Factor of Personality.