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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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®)
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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
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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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