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The Language Challenge for Social Media in Multinationals
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Boston College Carroll School of Management EDHEC Business School ESDES School of Business and Management
There is no doubt that social media has improved both internal and external corporate communication, especially for multinational companies. Social media has, for example, enabled corporations to increase opportunities for…
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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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Learning from Expatriate Experience After the Return Home
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: IESE Business School
Expatriate assignments are great opportunities for employees and managers assigned overseas to not only increase their personal knowledge, but also share knowledge across units. In a study on the knowledge…
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The Hidden Costs of Working While Sick
Idea 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…
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Potential Leaders: Height Helps But So Does Being Smart
Idea 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…
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A Lower Voice Can Take You Higher Up the Leadership Ladder
Idea 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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Firms Are Not Adapting to the Millennial Workforce
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business
In addition to economic and diversity issues, the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2014 focused on the issue of millennials in the workplace.…
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Does Employee Satisfaction Improve Company Value? It Depends…
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania London Business School Warwick University Business School
When the most important asset of a company is human capital, attracting and retaining high-quality, motivated employees is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. High employee satisfaction makes the company…
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Does Work/Life Balance Help or Hurt Productivity?
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich School of Management London School of Economics
Work-life balance issues bring out the optimist in some, the pessimist in others. For pessimists, the work-life balance concerns of employees will be undermined when a firm faces increased competition…
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