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…

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…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Ohio State University Fisher College of Business    University of Georgia Terry College of Business    Missouri State University    Shanghai University of Finance and Economics   

Abusive behaviour from bosses, what researchers call ‘downward hostility’, has a negative psychological effect on employees, undermining job satisfaction and the commitment to the employee. Such hostility also causes psychological…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: New York University School of Engineering   

Why are some people more open to change and others instinctively resistant to anything that significantly alters the status quo? The key is often in an individual’s basic attitude toward…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    University of Texas McCombs School of Business    Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Research in the past suggested that specifically working at happiness (what can I do today to be happier?) is counterproductive since it focuses the person on what is making him…

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…

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: Indian School of Business    West Texas A&M University    California State University   

In recent years, there has been tremendous focus on ways to enhance employee engagement, performance and workplace outcomes. The crucial role of the supervisor has been at the centre of…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    London Business School   

A research team from Wharton and London Business School discovered the benefits of self-reflective job titles almost by accident. Wharton professor Adam Grant, PhD candidate Justin Berg, and London Business…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

  Music transforms experience … from the humdrum, the everyday, into something else … Music is used in theater, it is used in movies, it is used to ratify revolutions…