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The Unexpected Reasons Employees Choose 4-Day Work Week Options
Idea posted: May 2025
Institutions: Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences, Ghent University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University
Compressed work schedules, such as full-time, 4-day weeks, are viewed as solutions for enhancing work-life balance and increasing full-time female labour participation. A Ghent University study shows that many employees…
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Performance Management Across Cultures: How Multinationals Can Meet the Challenge
Idea posted: April 2025
Institutions: Charles Sturt University School of Business Sabanci University School of Management
A study by a team of Australian and Turkish academics focuses on one of the major cross-cultural challenges of multinational corporations (MNCs): developing a performance management system that can be…
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Why You Should Reach Out to “Quiet Quitters”
Idea posted: April 2025
Institutions: Manchester University Alliance Manchester Business School
“Quiet quitters” are employees who do their jobs, but don’t go the extra mile. They don’t work overtime, or look for extra work, or voluntarily take on additional responsibilities, tasks,…
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How Personal-Organizational Values Mismatch Sets the Stage for Workplace Procrastination
Idea posted: April 2025
Institutions: Goodman School of Business Brock University
An employee’s tendency to procrastinate can arise from personal issues as varied as lack of self-discipline, sleep deprivation, and anxiety, anger, or other negative emotions. Procrastination can also result from…
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Why New Employees’ Commitment to Work-Life Balance Can Impress Their Managers
Idea posted: March 2025
Institutions: University ofBologna Business School KEDGE Business School
One might expect that newly hired employees who signal a 100% commitment to their jobs by indicating their willingness to work long hours and undertake weekend projects, for example, will…
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For Women Leaders, Refusal Is at the Heart of Transformative Leadership
Idea posted: March 2025
Institutions: Open University Business School University of Melbourne Business School University of Bristol Business School
The “glass cliff” is a well-known metaphor that describes how women are set up for failure by being put in leadership roles when organizations are in crisis. A research team…
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Ignore the Advisor and Stick with Your Better Judgement
Idea posted: March 2025
Institutions: Cornell University, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Cornell University Cornell Health Policy Center
People are often swayed by advice, even if that advice goes against their better judgement. Should following the advice lead to a poor outcome, many believe they will not feel…
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Developing Leaders for a Polycrisis World
Idea posted: February 2025
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Researchers from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) argue that framing crises as individual events with a distinct start and end time fails to accurately convey the challenges that leaders…
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Why Companies Under-Communicate their Environmental Performance
Idea posted: February 2025
Institutions: HEC Montréal Hunan University, Department of Accounting University of Bath School of Management Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Management
When Toyota achieve zero waste-to-incineration production, it never publicized this remarkable accomplishment. While significant research has focused on companies exaggerating their sustainability and environmentally friendly records, known as “greenwashing”, less…
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