Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia Darden Business School UCLA Anderson School of Management University of Miami School of Business Administration Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education
Workplace conflicts are, unfortunately, a common and difficult problem for managers. The traditional approach to resolving conflict is to examine the content of the conflict: what are you fighting about,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #489Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Ohio State University Fisher College of Business University of Georgia Terry College of Business Missouri State University Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Abusive behaviour from bosses, what researchers call ‘downward hostility’, has a negative psychological effect on employees, undermining job satisfaction and the commitment to the employee. Such hostility also causes psychological…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #488Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) Davidson College
A Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) survey of first-time managers attending its Maximizing Your Leadership Potential (MLP) program offers some insight into the challenges first-time managers face. The 12 top…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #487Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Stockholm School of Economics
Tall men have a greater chance of becoming leaders. As unfair as this may seem, and despite the obvious exceptions from Napoleon to CEO superstar Jack Welch, decades of research…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #484Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business Rady School of Management
Research in academic laboratory settings — that is, within controlled experiments with voluntary participants — has shown that individuals with deeper voices are perceived as having more leadership capabilities. Different…
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Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
In most hierarchies, power is malleable, which means that it can change. A leader at the top can lose his or her power, and be replaced by subordinates who have,…
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Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
Employees just joining the workforce will have different experiences in their first jobs, depending on the economic situation of the firm in which they land. This economic situation makes a…
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Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University Warwick University Business School Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business
A number of academic studies have shown that because many of us form impressions about potential leaders from their facial characteristics, certain facial characteristics (for example, a ‘competent’ look) can…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #479Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
As the younger generation of employees move into their first leadership positions, they will naturally be anxious, as any new leader would be, about the responsibilities, pressures, and risks that…
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