Ideas
Resolve Workload Conflicts When Integrating New Technology
Idea posted: January 2023
Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management
While new technology is intended to make work more efficient and effective, it often helps the professionals in a company while increasing the workload and decreasing the autonomy of assistants…
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Divergent Views of Merit Complicate Merit-Based Corporate Practices
Idea posted: December 2022
Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management
Meritocracy is an ideal that today's organizations strive for. However, the practice of meritocracy doesn't often live up to the aspiration. For example, studies continue to show that women and…
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CSR Can Backfire When Prices Are Increased
Idea posted: December 2022
Institutions: LUT School of Business and Management Ruhr-University of Bochum University of Mannheim SDA Bocconi School of Management University of Houston Bauer College of Business
Companies that raise prices might expect some unhappiness from customers, especially if the price increase is seen as deliberate profit-taking. The reaction to Marks & Spencer doubling the price of…
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The Paradox of Change: Why Real Change Only Happens When You Stop Trying to Change
Idea posted: November 2022
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Arnold Beisser’s paradoxical theory of change is one of the most influential concepts in Gestalt therapy. It proposes a counterintuitive but powerful insight: change occurs when a person becomes what…
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Corporate Purpose Inspires Employee Sustainability Behaviours
Idea posted: November 2022
Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Zicklin School of Business Baruch College City University of New York University of Mannheim
The business world has increasingly accepted the concept of a corporate purpose that extends beyond profit and shareholder value. More and more companies recognize that their core purpose is to…
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Why Objectification of People Is Rampant at Work
Idea posted: November 2022
Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
People treat each other differently at work than in non-work settings, and with good reason: they are work colleagues brought together solely to accomplish the work necessary for their jobs.…
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Don’t Let Employees Become Too Inhibited to Do the Right Thing
Idea posted: November 2022
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business Utrecht University
When we find ourselves in social situations that are unfamiliar, unsettling, or confusing, our tendency is not to react immediately, but rather to take a moment and think about what…
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The Science of Effective Feedback: What Really Improves Performance
Idea posted: October 2022
Institutions: University of Auckland
In their influential review, Hattie and Timperley analyse more than 7,000 studies to understand what makes feedback effective. They begin by defining feedback as ‘information provided by an agent regarding…
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Making Amends: The Two Levels of Moral Repair
Idea posted: October 2022
Institutions: Université de Lille University of St. Gallen
When a company has committed a transgression against one or more of its stakeholders, and wishes to rebuild the stakeholders’ trust and confidence, it engages in ‘moral repair’. For example,…
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