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Public Sector Leadership: Managing ‘Multirational’ Organizations
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
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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
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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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Work with Customers to Understand and Shape their Future Needs
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: North Carolina State University Poole College of Management University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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The best companies are forward-looking. They are not only concerned with what customers want to buy today, but what they will want to buy in the future. A company’s ability…
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Learning from Expatriate Experience After the Return Home
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: IESE Business School
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Expatriate assignments are great opportunities for employees and managers assigned overseas to not only increase their personal knowledge, but also share knowledge across units. In a study on the knowledge…
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The Hidden Costs of Working While Sick
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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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…
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Cyber-Attack Catastrophe: Lessons from a Plausible Risk Scenario
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School
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The extensive damage caused by computer hackers accessing the confidential information held within a company’s information technology is, unfortunately, well documented. But beyond compromising millions of customers or accessing company…
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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®)
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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
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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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Bullying Bosses: Don’t Just Take It, Fight Back
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
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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…
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