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Overcoming Our Evolutionary Fears to Speak Up to Authority
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…
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Public Sector Leadership: Managing ‘Multirational’ Organizations
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
Public sector organizations are multirational organizations. They do not fall under a single rationality archetype — for example, they are not uniquely political organizations or economic organizations or legal organizations,…
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Encouraging Employees Who Stay Silent to Give Feedback
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: New York University Stern School of Business SIM University
Why do employees choose to stay silent instead of reporting a problem, expressing their differing opinion or offering suggestions? Past research has examined this issue from a variety of perspectives,…
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From Charisma to Autonomy: How India’s Generations Rate Leadership Qualities
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Three generations of Indians are currently employed in India’s workplaces. The ‘partition generation’ (born 1944-1963, and roughly equivalent to the baby boomers) were born during times of insecurity and instability.…
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How to Resolve Workplace Conflicts by Addressing Conflict Expression
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia Darden Business School UCLA Anderson School of Management University of Miami School of Business Administration Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education
Workplace conflicts are, unfortunately, a common and difficult problem for managers. The traditional approach to resolving conflict is to examine the content of the conflict: what are you fighting about,…
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Why First-Time Managers Need More Development Support
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) Davidson College
A Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) survey of first-time managers attending its Maximizing Your Leadership Potential (MLP) program offers some insight into the challenges first-time managers face. The 12 top…
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Constructive Networking: The Strategies of Players and Purists
Idea posted: February 2015
Social capital research has established the performance advantages of networking. However, we know surprisingly little about the strategies individuals employ when networking and, in particular, the underlying agency mechanisms involved.…
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Potential Leaders: Height Helps But So Does Being Smart
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Stockholm School of Economics
Tall men have a greater chance of becoming leaders. As unfair as this may seem, and despite the obvious exceptions from Napoleon to CEO superstar Jack Welch, decades of research…
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A Lower Voice Can Take You Higher Up the Leadership Ladder
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business Rady School of Management
Research in academic laboratory settings — that is, within controlled experiments with voluntary participants — has shown that individuals with deeper voices are perceived as having more leadership capabilities. Different…
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