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Overcoming Our Evolutionary Fears to Speak Up to Authority
Idea 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…
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Public Sector Leadership: Managing ‘Multirational’ Organizations
Idea 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,…
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Encouraging Employees Who Stay Silent to Give Feedback
Idea 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,…
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How to Resolve Workplace Conflicts by Addressing Conflict Expression
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,…
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Bullying Bosses: Don’t Just Take It, Fight Back
Idea 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…
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Why Leaders Sabotage Their Own Teams
Idea posted: February 2015
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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Three Strategies for Resolving Workplace Conflict
Idea posted: December 2013
Institutions: IESE Business School Université de Montréal
January 2008 to April 2011 was a shocking time for France Telecom, when more than 60 employees committed suicide — a large number leaving behind notes blaming stress and misery…
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Blowing the Whistle on Unethical Conduct: It Takes a Village
Idea posted: August 2013
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University University of Central Florida University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Blowing the whistle on internal wrongdoing can be a risky endeavour. What if nothing happens and you’re now branded a fink? What if there’s retaliation from your boss or even…
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Envy at Work – Pros and Cons for the Organization
Idea posted: May 2013
Institutions: NUS Business School
In a survey by Staples, Inc. in 2010, three out of four respondents admitted to ‘office-chair envy’ - that is, coveting a co-worker’s office chair. It may sound laughable, but…
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