Idea posted: March 2026

Institutions: Harvard Business School; Harvard University   

For decades, the prevailing trend in corporate architecture has been a ‘war on walls’, characterised by the removal of cubicles and private offices in favour of open, ‘unbounded’ workspaces. The…

Idea posted: January 2026

Institutions: Hauge School of Management, NLA University College    Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University    BI Norwegian Business School   

Contemporary management trends often advocate for flatter organizational hierarchies, an approach characterized by a significant increase in the number of individuals reporting to a single leader, commonly referred to as…

Idea posted: September 2025

Institutions: HEC (Haute Études Commerciales) Paris    Korn Ferry Institute   

Business leaders often articulate a corporate purpose to define strategic direction and inspire employee commitment beyond just financial gains. Examples include Veolia’s pledge for “ecological transformation” and Stanley Black &…

Idea posted: September 2025

Institutions: Michigan State University    University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business    California State University    Shenzhen Polytechnic University    Wuhan University of Technology    Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University   

The traditional view in human resource management often focuses on individual employees managing their family demands, often seeing these demands as detrimental and a source of work-family conflict (WFC). A…

Idea posted: August 2025

Institutions: Future of Work Institute,Curtin University    School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia    School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University   

Population aging is a significant global phenomenon. The result is an aging and age-diverse workforce where multiple generations must work together effectively. Human Resource Management (HRM) practices play a key…

Idea posted: December 2024

Institutions: University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

Lying, or any form of deception, is a negative and destructive behavior that is proscribed in organizations—at least theoretically. ReReal-lifeypically complicates theory, and a study from the University of Chicago…

Idea posted: November 2024

Institutions: University of Chicago Booth School of Business; University of Essex, Department of Economics   

Having discovered the benefits of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic, notably the improvement in work-life balance, many employees are reluctant to return to the office full-time. One…

Idea posted: October 2024

Institutions: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University School of Science; Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland   

The well-documented “virtual meeting fatigue” the tiredness one feels after virtual meetings has been attributed to exhaustion arising from the multiple physical and psychological demands of such meetings. These physical…

Idea posted: April 2024

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    University of Hong Kong; Northwestern University   

Because of new communications technologies, including a proliferation of video-conferencing options over the Internet, many have declared the “death of distance.” Geographical separation of even thousands of miles is no…