Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

  Troubled manufacturing company the KSV is at crisis point. Its Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program has failed to deliver the expected benefits, and two of its biggest customers, Avobus…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

  The KSV plastics company is in trouble. A myopic cost control program has created supply chain and production problems and made it difficult to deliver orders on time and…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

"47 per cent say their current high-potential talent pool does not meet their anticipated needs." The term ‘high-potential’ is often found in business literature referring to employees.  What exactly differentiates one from…

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: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

The type and amount of information collected by organizations today is on a scale never seen before. This explosion in the volume of data received through sources such as social…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: HEC Paris   

Developing deeper awareness of our own prejudices is often cited as the solution to racism. Recent research, however, suggests it’s just the first step. In a pilot study conducted at…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Maastricht School of Management   

The greying of the post-war baby boom generation and increasing life expectancy are threatening the financial sustainability of pensions systems in many industrialized countries. European governments are responding by raising…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

"The answer is moral leadership, or, more specifically, respectful  leadership." One of the goals of leaders is to motivate employees to perform well, work in the collective interest and define themselves…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

The banking crisis and scandals involving companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, have made the need to understand moral behaviour in organizations more…