Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: HEC Paris   

Economic theory tells us that human capital, i.e. employee ability, is positively linked to productivity and that high performers should be rewarded. Strong financial incentives for performance, however, can carry…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Kenexa High Performance Institute    NUS Business School    University of Central Florida    University of Minnesota    University of St. Thomas   

“Excessive, shameful, soaring…” these are just some of the words used by the media when discussing executive compensation. Over the past two decades in particular, CEO compensation has increased exponentially,…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

A large-scale study by Vlerick Business School, in association with three media partners, De Standaard, La Libre Belgique and NRC Handelsblad, underlines the importance of non-financial rewards to employees. The…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business   

Executives and managers recognize today that discrimination has no place in the workplace. No employee should be required to work in an environment of abuse and harassment — including in…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Leaders can have a ripple effect through their company, particularly those in the C-suite; their actions reverberate throughout the organization, with followers sometimes even mimicking them. The CEO of BAE…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

It is useful for us to analyse levels of employee engagement in organizations both during and in post-recession environments. Here we can define ‘engagement’ as satisfaction with job and commitment…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Boston University Questrom School of Business   

How can companies help their employees reclaim lost dreams—in both professional and non-professional contexts? Those companies able to do so will go a long way towards addressing some of the…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Deloitte Consulting LLP    MIT Sloan School of Management   

How are managers today using social media tools and how important are those tools becoming to their organizations? In collaboration with Deloitte, MIT Sloan Management Review conducted a survey of…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

In many organizations, collaborative innovation teams are utilized to manage new product development initiatives. This involves different types of managers (marketing, operations, engineering, etc.) working together to allocate resources to…