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Ways to Encourage Employees to Help Each Other
Idea posted: September 2014
Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business
In a world of business in which cooperation is often the key to success, many companies overlook the damage that infighting, extreme competition or knowledge hoarding by employees can cause…
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Competitive Advantage through Individuals Outside the Norm
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University
When in May 2013, software giant SAP announced that it would hire hundreds of people who were diagnosed with autism, the assumption among casual observers might have been that SAP…
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Can Employees Be Motivated by More than Money and Benefits?
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Motivation can be divided into two dimensions: outcome-focused and process-focused. With outcome-focused motivation, people are driven by the desire of an achievement. They want to finish the task so that…
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Surviving a Recession: Seven Lessons from Family Businesses
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Boston Consulting Group HEC Paris
Family-controlled companies are associated with tradition and continuity, but that doesn’t mean they’re ‘behind the curve’. A recent study suggests that when it comes to sustainable performance, they can beat…
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How Reference Points Motivate Us
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The use of reference points — for example, a monthly sales quota of 20 sales — is at the heart of reference-dependent behavioural economic theories, the most influential being “prospect…
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How to Ensure Knowledge Sharing under Pressure
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: McMaster University DeGroote School of Business Memorial University California State University Fullerton College of Business and Economics Queens University School of Business University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
In today’s information age, a key source of effectiveness in organizations is knowledge management, and more specifically knowledge sharing among employees. At the same time, one of the growing challenges…
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How Employees Win ‘Voice’ and Influence Decisions
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University London Business School
It is well established, in research, that employees who are allowed to voice their opinions perceive decision-making procedures as more fair and are more likely to display pro-social behaviours and…
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Managing the Multigenerational Workplace
Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
In a white paper published by Kenan-Flagler Business School, Dan Bursch and Kip Kelly describe today’s workforce has decidedly multigenerational and comprised of five generations each with distinct general characteristics:…
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How a Culture of Integrity Boosts the Bottom Line
Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) Kellogg School of Management University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The true measure of integrity in a firm is not comforting slogans on the home page of the company website, but how employees feel about whether top management, through its…
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