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Mind the Gap: The Link Between Mindfulness and Performance at Work Needs More Attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2015

Ellen Choi  and
Jutta Tobias
Ellen Choi*
Affiliation:
Ivey School of Business, Western University
Jutta Tobias
Affiliation:
Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ellen Choi, Ivey School of Business, Western University, London, Ontario, N6G 0N1Canada. E-mail: echoi.phd@ivey.ca
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The concept of mindfulness has become the topic of heated debates among scholars and practitioners alike. Hyland, Lee, and Mills's (2015) focal article has an ambitious goal: distilling how mindfulness fits into workplace research and practice. This is laudable, and we are pleased that the authors are providing a review of the many ways in which mindfulness may benefit employees and organizations. Unfortunately, the authors fall short of their aspiration to produce a comprehensive overview of the link between workplace mindfulness and performance. We outline three points that we find may have helped the authors achieve their main objective.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 629 - 633
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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