Sunil Ramlall Partners with WalletHub on Happiest States in America

 The personal finance website Wallet Hub compared the 50 states across 30 key indicators of happiness, including rates of depression, income growth and the employment rate, to determine which state is the happiest.

The earliest writings of philosophers pondered the virtues of positive thinking and the pursuit of happiness. For example, Aristotle argued that happiness is the highest good humans can achieve and that the use of reason and rationality is essential to its achievement.

In today's society, many will argue that work is the source of their stress, their inability to spend adequate time with family or volunteer in community activities and being unable to further their education. Happiness can be cultivated by identifying and using the strengths people already possess.

The search for excellence and all‐around happiness has been the important objective for ages. Happiness can be attained either through self‐contentment or through fulfillment of desires.

Over the years, many organizational leaders and managers have argued about the relationship between happy/satisfied employees and productive employees.

Pursuing that inner sense of freedom, security, and reassurance are core to creating psychological well-being. Asking the “why” for all we do. Why are we working? Why pursue financial freedom? Why a better health? This helps to create a sense of purpose for all we do. We are choosing to stay with a job maybe because it gives us meaning, or maybe we need to seek alternative options because it does not contribute to our happiness adequately. The positive psychology scholarship clearly defines the rationale for positive thinking.

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Overview of Strategy by Dr. Sunil Ramlall

Sunil Ramlall - Professor of Business

 

The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is the highest accredited academic business degree at Concordia University designed to address the current challenges facing companies, leaders, and teams in today’s business environment. You will develop scholar-practitioner skills as you learn from industry experts skilled in blending applied learning with theory development. You'll leave the program equipped with the tools, experience, and knowledge to transform organizations and improve performance through grounded research methods.

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Sunil Ramlall - Online Learning Effectiveness

What are some practices that enable online learning effectiveness?

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How does HR create value in organizations? Here's a brief video on the role of HR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3Q2JiaqHs

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Soft Skills

With employers increasingly demanding a greater range of softer skills such as effective communication, the paper is intended to identify current accounting students’ perspectives on soft skills, identify their self-assessed competence in the respective soft skills, and suggest ways in which accounting students can gain soft skills. We assessed students’ level of perception/knowledge of soft skills, its’ importance and their self-assessment of their level of possession of these skills. With a sample size of 313 participants, we found that there were fewer gaps in what students perceived as being important in the accounting profession and how prepared they are in fulfilling the expectations. In addition, we found that the universities were placing more emphasis on developing these soft skills that have shown to be beneficial in students’ careers.

Advances in Research
2(11): 645-654, 2014, Article no. AIR.2014.11.008
SCIENCEDOMAIN international
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The Value of Soft-Skills in the Accounting Profession: Perspectives of Current Accounting Students
Sunil Ramlall1* and Dhanmati Ramlall2*
1Strategic HRM Consulting, LLC, USA.
2Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, USA.

Full-text is available at www.sunilramlall.com

Positive Organizational Behavior In the Workplace

Positive psychological principles and subsequently positive organizational behavior (POB) have become increasingly prevalent in the workplace in recent years. We have witnessed many struggles in the global economy where organizations across the world have experienced layoffs, lower productivity, lower employee morale, and generally struggling to be competitive.

Given these negative environments, what can organizations do across the world to enhance the positive practices that will create benefits for all of the stakeholders through POB? We also identify gaps that exist in organizational practices and how positive organizational behavior can be integrated to build sustainable organizations.

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Sunil Ramlall, Ph.D.