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Subjective judgments do not become objective simply by translating them into numbers. More importantly, when some of the options under review require ethical considerations, we can cloud the difference between right and wrong when we translate all options into a quantitative order of dollar values. If you tell me that option A contains a moral impediment and option B is pristine, that is substantially different … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The University of New Mexico | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

In the early 1900s, Fredrick Taylor applied a scientific method to the management of workers in an effort to improve productivity. Known today as Theory X, its recommendations included a division of labor, similar to that used by Henry Ford in his assembly lines that separated tasks into discrete activities that could be handled by appropriately trained individuals and teams.

But Taylor’s approach, which was … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Emory | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A review of previous evidence suggested that a substantial proportion of managers may be expected to bring serious harm to others in situations where they feel it is proper behavior for their role. Further evidence was provided by the Panalba role-playing study, where 79% of the groups selected a highly irresponsible decision and none chose the decision that was free of irresponsibility. These results were … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: J. Scott Armstrong | Source: Wharton | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The design of an organisation – the accountability system that defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm – has a direct impact on the performance of every employee. Yet few leaders devote focused attention to how this design is chosen, implemented, and adjusted over time. Robert Simons argues that by viewing design as a powerful and proactive management lever – rather than an inevitable … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Robert Simons | Subject: Organizational Behavior

While profit and loss can be measured easily enough, the emotional responses that determine whether results feel like success or failure are much more complicated. INSEAD’s Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, Philippe Delquié and Alessandra Cillo argue this response is not a factor of prior expectations, as suggested by previous studies. Instead, outcomes are valued relative to all missed outcomes, whether these alternatives were foreseen … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Alessandra CILLO, Philippe Delquié | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Finance, Organizational Behavior

Regulation is merely society’s way of saying that it does not approve of the way business is operating or, that by operating the way it is, business is ignoring what the society has set as objectives and goals for itself.

Content: Quotation | Source: Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies (EJBO) | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

Business “ethics,” should not be confused with business “morality.” Morality is the sum total of a particular society’s or organization’s current perceived traditions, beliefs, values, attitudes and norms that have been cultivated over time, institutionalized in religious doctrine, laws, regulations and codes of conduct which explicitly or implicitly suggest how an individual should behave in situations as they are encountered daily. Ethics may well … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael S. Poulton | Source: Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies (EJBO) | Subject: Ethics

Two tools frequently used by teams to make decisions are Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique. While idea-generating tools such as Brainstorming produce a list of possible alternatives, Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique help to identify the important or popular items or prioritize the items on a list.

Content: Article | Source: The Balanced Scorecard Institute | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips

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When it comes to innovation,business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, ‘try it, prototype it, and improve it’. Designers learn by doing. The style of thinking in traditional firms is largely inductive – proving that something actually operates – and deductive – proving that something must be. Design shops add abductive reasoning to the fray – which involves suggesting … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Decision Making, Innovation

Emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, and fear refer to feelings that signal information about relationships. For example, happiness signals harmonious relationships, whereas fear signals being threatened. Intelligence refers to the capacity to carry out abstract reasoning, recognize patterns, and compare and contrast. Emotional intelligence, then, refers to the capacity to understand and explain emotions, on the one hand, and of emotions to enhance thought, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Did you vote your boss into the corner office? If not, perhaps your boss is a dictator. Chetan Dhruve explains why bosses become dictators.

Editor’s Note: I had some real issues with this manifesto, but the point of ChangeThis is to offer thought-provoking, even controversial, papers so I have added it – read for yourself and decide…

Content: Article | Author: Chetan Dhruve | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

When two people in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Communication

There is much evidence that being upbeat rather than unhappy, or optimistic rather than pessimistic, is a personality characteristic that is stable throughout one’s life. One study that followed people over a 50-year period, for example, showed that having an upbeat personality as an adolescent was a strong predictor of job satisfaction decades later. Hiring such upbeat people is one of the best ways to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

In most organizations, most of the time, self-interest, short-sightedness, and chicanery are tumbling together with shards of loyalty, commitment, perseverance and integrity. The churning is continuous-fuelled by the dynamism of the modern economy, the restlessness and vibrancy of contemporary life, and the age-old drivers of human nature.

This is why quiet leaders reject cynicism-they see it as too simplistic. Dark-tinted glasses distort reality just as … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The only helpful way to examine organisations and their management is as something neither moral nor immoral, but simply a phenomenon; not to look for proof that industry is honourable or dishonourable, but only for patterns of success and failure… and for the forces which produce them.

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

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Who is better equipped to set the corporate agenda: a small and homogeneous top management team of like-minded individuals, or a larger, more heterogeneous team of individuals from a wider variety of backgrounds and perspectives?

There are many opinions on this issue, but very little hard data exists to recommend one approach or the other. As a result, in collaboration with the Center for Effective Organizations … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Madelaine Pfau, Max Landsberg | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior

The shortest distance between two people is solving a common puzzle.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Virtual Handshake | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Decades after Milton Friedman framed the debate over the social responsibility of business with an article in the New York Times Magazine, the discussion continues. Should businesses concentrate on achieving socially desirable outcomes? Can business be guided by the rule of law when governments are sometimes corrupt? How does operating globally affect a company’s behavior? These and other issues were the focus of one … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)