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Your job doesn’t have to represent the most prestigious use of your potential. It just needs to be rewarding.

Content: Article | Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

When a company is organized around traditional silos versus customer needs, the products and services they make will reflect the structure and needs of the company, not the customer.

Content: Quotation | Author: Pat Connolly | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

How am I doing? Research by Francesca Gino and colleagues shows just how badly employees want to know. Is it time for managers to get over their discomfort and get the conversation going at work?

Content: Article | Authors: Francesca Gino, Michael Blanding | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour sheds light on the role of within-job pay differences in the gender pay gap.

Content: Article | Authors: Halil Sabanci, Marta Elvira, Paula Apascaritei | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Compensation, Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

Not all purposes are motivating, and not all statements of organizational values are effective in guiding behaviors the way we have discussed here. To the contrary, if we judge by the fact that 87 percent of employees in the world claim to be disengaged or actively disengaged at work, the majority of purposes must be useless. The question that we must address, therefore, is, “What … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Constantinos C. Markides | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Simply communicating the choices you have made is often insufficient. What you really need to do is to communicate the choice and the alternatives considered and rejected in favor of the choice. It is the positioning of the choice relative to the alternatives considered that makes the choice clear to people. This means that what you need to say is not “We have decided to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Constantinos C. Markides | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Communication, Management, Organizational Behavior

I propose that there are two key parameters that an organization needs to put in place to guide decision-making. The first is the organization’s clearly communicated strategy. This is defined by the difficult choices leadership has made that determine which decisions are “strategic” (and should be undertaken only by top management) and which decisions are “operational” (and can be undertaken by employees). The second parameter … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Constantinos C. Markides | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior

In today’s world, strategy is relatively easy to replicate and capital is relatively easy to access. What gives you a real source of competitive advantage is your talent and culture.

Content: Quotation | Author: Mary Meaney | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Culture, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Most organizations are set up for productivity and predictability. However, in today’s environment, where volatility and opportunity reign, this seems counterintuitive at best.

As the saying goes, it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, even if you have the best leadership and capabilities at your disposal. But everything we are seeing today, along with certain shifts that we have been tracking for some years, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan C. Aurik | Source: Kearney | Subject: Organizational Behavior

It’s a pandemic debate raging at companies everywhere: How often should employees come to the office? In the first large-scale study of its kind, Prithwiraj Choudhury finds that hybrid schedules might offer the best answer for everyone.

Content: Article | Authors: Ben Rand, Prithwiraj Choudhury | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

We tend to respond to what’s presented to us. It takes extra effort to stop and ask, “What’s missing?” Our energy-conscious brains like to be efficient. The problem is that not having all of the information we need can lead us to make a poor decision.

Content: Quotation | Author: Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Creating a high-trust environment isn’t easy, but applying these five principles on a day-to-day basis will get you there—and closer to real resiliency.

Content: Article | Authors: Ali Grovue, Mike Watson | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Trust

Five key practices can unify leaders up, down, and across the organization—and spark concerted action.

Content: Article | Authors: Deborah Lovich, Henning Streubel, Joseph Halverson, Robert Werner | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Communication, Management, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

Your skill in decision-making is directly proportional to your quality of information acquisition. So, how good are you at making decisions? How good are you at acquiring information?

Content: Quotation | Author: Tobi Lütke | Subjects: Decision Making, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Companies need a new kind of middle manager: the synchronizer.

Content: Article | Author: Derek Thompson | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

A recent BCG study suggests that increasing the diversity of leadership teams leads to more and better innovation and improved financial performance. In both developing and developed economies, companies with above-average diversity on their leadership teams report a greater payoff from innovation and higher EBIT margins. Even more persuasive, companies can start generating gains with relatively small changes in the makeup of their senior teams. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Katie Abouzahr, Matt Krentz, Miki Tsusaka, Nicole Voigt, Rocío Lorenzo | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Innovation, Organizational Behavior

In the real world, there is no such thing as making the right decision. You make the decision and then make the decision right.

Content: Quotation | Author: Baba Shiv | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior

As a current and/or future organization leader, you have to be effective at two things among others day in and day out. You have to be effective at making decisions, but even more important, I would argue you have to be effective at shaping others’ decisions. And when we go about shaping others’ decisions, what do we often end up doing? We present rational arguments. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Baba Shiv | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Adam Grant agrees that brainwriting is best, pointing to evidence that groups generate fewer and worse ideas while brainstorming than when the very same people are working on their own.

“If you know the group is nervous about ego issues or status hierarchies you should collect the ideas anonymously. It’s about leveraging the power of the group for idea selection, where people are actually better collectively, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Adam Grant | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Most folks aren’t honest with their feelings because they get unsolicited advice or intrusive questions — you can try to stop that cycle on your team with the culture you create and the micro-actions you take.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jessmina Archbold | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior