The impact of mindfulness on well-being and performance in the workplace: an inclusive systematic review of the empirical literature

Work can be demanding, imposing challenges that can be detrimental to the physical and mental health of workers. Efforts are therefore underway to develop practices and initiatives that may improve occupational well-being. These include interventions based on mindfulness meditation. This paper offers a systematic review of empirical studies featuring analyses of mindfulness in occupational contexts. Databases were reviewed from the start of records to January 2016. Eligibility criteria included experimental and correlative studies of mindfulness conducted in work settings, with a variety of well-being and performance measures. A total of 153 papers met the eligibility criteria and were included in the systematic review, comprising 12,571 participants. Mindfulness was generally associated with positive outcomes in relation to most measures. However, the quality of the studies was inconsistent, so further research is needed, particularly involving high-quality randomized control trials

The Pressure of the Past: Network Imprinting in Intercorporate Communities

This paper extends organizational imprinting theory to networks by examining how the social technology available during the establishment of community-based intercorporate networks continues to influence contemporary network structures despite major changes in the U.S. corporate environment. I examine the 51 largest U.S. community network systems in 1986, the same networks in 2000, and the network activity of the component organizations of those network systems. Results show that even when controlling for many plausible alternative explanations, communities established prior to the advent of air travel technology have preserved locally focused networks, which suggests that this pattern is maintained by emulation of locally legitimate templates of action. This research contributes to work on imprinting by extending it to networks and in theorizing the social mechanisms that result in the persistence of social forms. Furthermore, it contributes to work on directorship networks by suggesting that the way information flows through this network may be geographically contingent. • Organizational scholars have done considerable work in understanding how the past continues to influence the present. According to Stinchcombe (1965: 142), "the groups, institutions, laws, population characteristics, and sets of social relations that form the environment" are historically contingent and imprint an organization with the characteristics of the era when it was founded. Stinchcombe (1965) illustrated how this hypothesis was supported for unions, fraternities, and savings banks, as well as many other types of organizations and industries. More recent studies have examined how initial conditions affect outcomes such as organizational mortality in beer brewing and newspapers Researchers are beginning to recognize the persistence of network structures. Walker, Kogut, and Shan (1997) noted a path dependence in the biotechnology partner network, an