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Setting High Performance Expectations Can Lead to Failure

Past research has demonstrated that high external performance expectations (e.g., from supervisors, co-workers, clients, family, friends, and the media) can motivate individuals to increase their efforts and be more persistent, leading to higher levels of performance. The source of this motivation is the desire to make a good impression on those who are watching. One […]

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Why Performance Improvements Don’t Lead to Higher Trust

In the UK, Regional mental health trusts provide mental health services. Hospitals, GPs and other ‘’commissioning organizations’, such as crisis centres refer patients to these trusts. The mental health trusts are governed by clinical commissioning groups and regulated by the national Care Quality Commission.  In 2011, the Care Quality Commission imposed 15 requirement notices on […]

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Why Performance Improvements Don’t Lead to Higher Trust

In the UK, Regional mental health trusts provide mental health services. Hospitals, GPs and other ‘’commissioning organizations’, such as crisis centres refer patients to these trusts. The mental health trusts are governed by clinical commissioning groups and regulated by the national Care Quality Commission.  In 2011, the Care Quality Commission imposed 15 requirement notices on […]

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How More Customer Contact Creates a More Energetic, Motivated and United Workforce

A new study shows how impactful customer contact can be in terms of employee engagement and organizational results. According to the study, contact with customers elicits the feeling in employees that they are working to help others, that their job is not just a task in a vacuum with no connection to the rest of […]

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Authentic Leaders Inspire Creativity, Organizational Citizenship and Performance

Authentic leadership refers to leaders whose external behaviours and decisions are driven by internal positive values and concern for others. They tend to be self-aware, recognizing their strengths, weaknesses, values and emotions; transparent, presenting their true selves to their followers; and open to unbiased information and the viewpoints of others before making decisions. Previous research […]

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Why Are Disagreeable Men Being Rewarded for Being Disagreeable?

While it is well documented that women earn less than men, a series of three studies examined whether agreeableness had an impact on this wage inequality — that is, whether men and women being agreeable or disagreeable changed the equation. Agreeableness incorporates attributes such as being trusting, altruistic, compliant, modest and tender-minded. Disagreeableness refers to […]

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