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Evidence-based perspectives on people, leadership, workplace well-being, finance, and the forces shaping Philippine business and public life.
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Read Whose Side Is HR Really On? The Truth About Protecting the OrganizationFeatured · Business
Is HR on the side of employees, management, or the organization? The better question is what principles should guide HR when those interests appear to conflict.
10 min read
Business
When the government collects more taxes than expected, why not use the extra money to reduce borrowing instead of spending it through unprogrammed appropriations? The answer starts with a few distinctions that often get buried in technical language.
8 min read
Business
Someone offers you a share in a business registered as their sole proprietorship. Before you hand over money, find out what you will actually own, what rights you will have, and what obligations you may take on.
7 min read
Business
A job title shows where someone sits on the org chart, but it rarely shows everything they can do. Talent intelligence and AI can bring hidden capabilities into view and help organizations hire, develop, and deploy people more effectively. The condition is that leaders treat the data as evidence to examine, never as a verdict to accept.
7 min read
Finance & Accounting
A legal researcher helps locate, verify, analyze, and organize legal information so that qualified decision-makers can assess an issue with a stronger factual and legal foundation.
7 min read
Career & Professional Development
This National Teachers’ Month, we honor the teachers, educators, trainers, mentors, and learning facilitators who help build professionals—people equipped not only with knowledge and technical skills, but also with confidence, discipline, character, and a commitment to lifelong growth.
4 min read
People & HR
Synthesizing Schutte & Loi (2014) and Ashkanasy & Dorris (2017), this metasynthesis shows that emotional intelligence is both an individual capability and a relational resource — driving social support, perceived control, engagement, and workplace flourishing across every level of an organization.
16 min readResearch
Research & Public Policy
Confidential funds are lawful public appropriations — but they are not unregulated. This analysis separates audit liability, criminal liability, and constitutional liability, and asks the real question: has conduct attributable to the Vice President been proven to fall within a constitutional ground for impeachment?
18 min readResearch
Workplace & Well-being
The unopened mail keeps moving from one surface to another. A small task grows heavier each day it waits. If starting feels out of reach, the most useful next step is usually not more self-criticism — it is curiosity, a little structure, and treating small changes as experiments rather than proof of worth.
12 min read
Workplace & Well-being
The “balance” metaphor is usually read as a demand for equal hours, but equal time ignores unequal role demands, caregiving intensity, recovery needs, and the quality of attention within time. This meta-synthesis argues that balance is better understood as a dynamic, subjective judgment of feasible fit — and proposes a multilevel Dynamic Feasible Fit Model that rejects both equal-hours logic and individual blame.
22 min readResearch
People & HR
The Philippine framework for family-friendly workplaces is a set of separate statutes rather than one consolidated law. This brief maps the mandatory legal floor — maternity, paternity, solo-parent, lactation, anti-harassment, and flexible-work rules — alongside the strongest voluntary employer practices and an honest view of what business impact can and cannot be claimed.
18 min readResearch
Business
Equitable recruitment is the ongoing work of designing a hiring system in which qualified people can understand the opportunity, participate meaningfully, and be assessed on evidence relevant to the role.
11 min read
Leadership
Gossip means people still care enough to talk. Silence can mean they have already given up. When leaders tolerate mediocrity to avoid conflict, their best people eventually pay the price — and stop speaking up.
7 min read
Research & Public Policy
A journal-style analysis arguing that Pax Silica should be understood not as a data-center project but as a proposed strategic industrial ecosystem — and that its developmental value depends on contract design, infrastructure planning, and regulatory enforcement.
18 min readResearch
