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Performance Management Across Cultures: How Multinationals Can Meet the Challenge

A study by a team of Australian and Turkish academics focuses on one of the major cross-cultural challenges of multinational corporations (MNCs): developing a performance management system that can be accepted by employees from different countries with different cultural norms. Performance management (PM) systems, developed by HR to measure and ensure high employee performance, typically […]

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How Personal-Organizational Values Mismatch Sets the Stage for Workplace Procrastination

An employee’s tendency to procrastinate can arise from personal issues as varied as lack of self-discipline, sleep deprivation, and anxiety, anger, or other negative emotions. Procrastination can also result from workplace pressures, such as tasks that are not clearly defined, self-serving decisions by the organization that ignores the interests of employees, or work-family conflict. A […]

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Middle Management Central to Successful Training

This working paper investigates why training investments, essential for productivity, often suffer from low participation rates and insufficient worker engagement. It addresses a gap in existing literature by examining how middle managers influence the execution of centrally designed training programs. The study uses detailed administrative data from three large firms in Latin America: an Argentinian […]

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How Work Breaks Boost Employee Well-being and Work Performance

There is a consensus that breaks during working hours can help employees recover from the stress and fatigue of work and thus improve their well-being and performance. A team of Canada-based scholars empirically tested this assumption by reviewing the full range of research in this area, pulling from multiple disciplines. The scope of their review […]

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Visionary Leadership Transfers Leaders’ Sense of Meaning in Their Work to Their Followers

People are more engaged in their work and more committed to their organizations if they find their work meaningful that is, if their work gives them a sense that they are contributing to something bigger than themselves. Meaningfulness is subjective: It is up to the individuals to determine if they believe their work has meaning. […]

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Productivity or Control? What Truly Motivates Return-to-Office Mandates 

As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to recede, should companies that had let employees work from home during the pandemic call them back to the office? Many managers argue that employees in the office are more productive and that working from home reduces firm performance. Many employees counter that eliminating commutes and giving […]

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The Danger of Assuming Shared Psychological Safety in Teams

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Psychological safety—the belief that it is safe to take interpersonal risks within a group—is recognized as a key attribute of high-performance teams. Research has shown that when team members are afraid to share their views, ask for feedback, or take risks, the team will be less effective. Psychological safety is conceptualized as a shared belief—that […]

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Bad Is Stronger than Good

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A wide-ranging overview of related psychological studies reveals that, without exception, bad has a greater impact than good, no matter the context. Here is some of the evidence presented by the researchers: Reacting to Events: Studies demonstrate that a major negative event has a lasting impact on an individual; a major positive event results in […]

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