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Making Sure That Mindfulness Is Promoted in Organizations in the Right Way and for the Right Goals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2015

Ute R. Hülsheger*
Affiliation:
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ute R. Hülsheger, Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands. E-mail: ute.hulsheger@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Extract

I am happy to see the topic of mindfulness at work find its way into this journal as a focal article (Hyland, Lee, & Mills, 2015), and I read it with great interest. Although I agree with most of the points made, I want to elaborate on some critical issues that were not or were only briefly touched on and that I deem worthy of further exploration and discussion.

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Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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