Ideas
DEI Under Fire and the Future of Gender Equality
Idea posted: July 2024
Institutions: Vanderbilt University University of Virginia University of Toronto
As more politicians and courts turn against Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs, more firms and organizations are proactively dropping these programs to avoid future lawsuits. How will this trend impact…
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Workspace Discontent Pushes Workers to Prefer Hybrid Work
Idea posted: July 2024
Institutions: The University of Edinburgh Business School; Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Edinburgh College of Art Queen Mary University of London
The widespread experiment in remote work forced on society by the pandemic proved that employees are not less productive working from home and that companies can achieve the same results…
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CEO Altruism Leads to More Corporate Social Responsibility
Idea posted: June 2024
Institutions: University of Reading Henley Business School
How much do a CEO’s values influence firm activities? To answer this question, a team of researchers from Henley Business School and the University of Edinburgh explored the impact of…
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Developing Psychological Capital for Aspiring, Diverse Leaders
Idea posted: June 2024
Institutions: Drucker School of Management Claremont Graduate University Chulalongkorn University
The retirement of boomers from the workforce offers opportunities for companies to fulfill their promise to diversify their leadership by encouraging and enabling more women, LGBTQ+, people of color, Native…
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Visionary Leadership is Most Needed in Times of Uncertainty
Idea posted: June 2024
Institutions: University of Potsdam
The greatest of leaders are visionaries. They have a vision for the future of their organizations and effectively communicate that vision to their followers which inspires the followers’ commitment to…
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Engage Employees through Psychologically Rich Jobs
Idea posted: May 2024
Institutions: University of Virginia University of Florida
Since the time of Aristotle, philosophers have been debating the characteristics of a “good life,” that is, the characteristics of a life that would be most desirable to people. Over…
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As Technology Upends Jobs, Which Skills Pay More?
Idea posted: May 2024
Institutions: London School of Economics Citi Global Data Insights
Emerging technologies from AI to quantum computing and genetic engineering have launched a Fourth Industrial Revolution an era, accelerated by COVID-19, that is transforming the workplace. Through in-depth analyses of…
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Visionary Leadership Transfers Leaders’ Sense of Meaning in Their Work to Their Followers
Idea posted: May 2024
Institutions: University of St. Gallen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Bar-Ilan University
People are more engaged in their work and more committed to their organizations if they find their work meaningful that is, if their work gives them a sense that they…
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Distance Is Not Dead: How Face-to-Face Collaborations Lead to Greater Mutual Learning
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…
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