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…

Idea posted: October 2022

Institutions: The Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity    Duke University Fuqua School of Business    Duke University   

In 2008, a study led by Prof. Ashleigh Shelby Rosette of Duke showed that for Americans, Whiteness was one of the prototypical attributes of leaders. As a result, Whites, seen…

Idea posted: September 2022

Institutions: University of Miami    Florida State University    Stony Brook University   

CEOs and corporate leaders come from diverse backgrounds, with a broad range of childhood experiences. While some CEOs were raised in affluent families, with all the privileges and opportunities that…

Idea posted: June 2022

Institutions: University of Virginia    University of Virginia Darden Business School    Kenan-Flagler Business School    University of California    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business    Harvard Business School   

Companies recognize today that helping employees find meaning and purpose in their work will maximize employee satisfaction, motivation, engagement, and performance. The challenge for leaders is how to increase meaning…

Idea posted: January 2022

Institutions: Catalyst   

Empathy entails making the effort to understand others’ perspectives and emotions, and demonstrating that understanding through care and concern. In the workplace, leadership empathy is manifested through actions ranging from…

Idea posted: November 2021

Institutions: University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business    MIT Sloan School of Management    University of Mannheim   

A new study of employee misconduct in the financial services field reveals that supervisors have the most significant impact—negative or positive—on employee misconduct in their firms.  Based on 10 years…

Idea posted: September 2021

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    University College London    Warwick University Business School    University of Victoria Peter B. Gustavson School of Business   

Craft was long seen as a primitive form of work organization rendered obsolete by the Industrial Age. However, the concept of craft is making an energetic resurgence, influencing the making…

Idea posted: July 2021

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

What is charisma? Much of past research focuses on the outcomes of charisma and often within the context of leaders in an organizational setting—e.g., charismatic leaders generate emotions that inspire…

Idea posted: July 2021

Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

Research on power in organizations often treats power as unidirectional—how subordinates deal with superiors or how superiors deal with subordinates. Two researchers challenge this static, unidirectional perspective with a new…