Idea posted: May 2015
Institutions: INSEAD
Growing up in an era of stagnating wages and increasing youth unemployment, one could forgive Millennials for being a bit pessimistic. This is not the case, however, according to a…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #516Idea posted: May 2015
Institutions: INSEAD
Assumptions about Millennials are rampant — for example, that they don’t want to work hard or pay their dues, or that work/life balance is more important than money or career.…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #515Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology Tongji University
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), a company that specialized in the large-scale cranes used to load containers onto ships, burst on the heavy machinery landscape in 1992. At that time,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #495Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Duke University
Most leaders possess typical leadership qualities such as the ability to inspire and persuade, a grand vision, and a controlled fearlessness when taking risks. There is, however, a darker side…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #499Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business Cornell University Harvard Business School
Why don’t many employees say something when they see something wrong in the workplace, or when they are unfairly attacked by their boss? Why do they sit silent in meetings…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #498Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
Public sector organizations are multirational organizations. They do not fall under a single rationality archetype — for example, they are not uniquely political organizations or economic organizations or legal organizations,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #497Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: New York University Stern School of Business SIM University
Why do employees choose to stay silent instead of reporting a problem, expressing their differing opinion or offering suggestions? Past research has examined this issue from a variety of perspectives,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #496Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
An employee’s work usually consists of two types of tasks or behaviours: in-role tasks, which are the tasks required by the job or position; and discretionary behaviours, which are undertaken…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #492Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Three generations of Indians are currently employed in India’s workplaces. The ‘partition generation’ (born 1944-1963, and roughly equivalent to the baby boomers) were born during times of insecurity and instability.…
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