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…

Idea posted: January 2024

Institutions: State University of New York At Buffalo School of Management    Louisiana State University School of Leadership and Human Resource Development    Drexel University Management Department   

One resilient conclusion from leadership commentators and observers is the connection between extraversion and leadership—that is, extraverted individuals are more likely to become leaders than introverted individuals. Leadership research, however,…

Idea posted: December 2023

Institutions: Harvard Business School    Harvard Kennedy School    University of British Columbia   

Individuals engaged in contentious conversations about controversial issues rarely communicate to others in the discussion that they are willing to respectfully consider opposing viewpoints—what social scientists “receptiveness.” One reason may…

Idea posted: November 2023

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Sidra Medicine (Qatar)   

The agile management approach, which began as a project management approach in the field of software product development, rejects rigid structures and processes in favour of customer-focused incremental processes that…