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“Do you have an annual appraisal system? Why? Before expending energy on a process so complicated and potentially controversial, it makes sense to ask what you hope to achieve. Most companies do not know why they have one. They just do.

What is an appraisal for? To provide feedback? To provide a measure of `how you are doing’? To identify prospects for promotion? To decide … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David West | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

This article offers a look at the unique management philosophy and values of Yarde Metals.

Content: Case Study | Author: Jackie Majerus | Sources: CEO Refresher, The Herald Press | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: Yarde Metals

Even a corporate revamping inspired by state-of-the-art design principles won’t succeed if not driven by a powerful, well-timed business idea adapted to social realities.

Content: Article | Authors: Emily Lawson, Jonathan D. Day, Keith Leslie | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

If introducing a new product line creates a small probability of losing a few million dollars and a large probability of earning many billions of dollars, it seems clear that the new product line should be introduced. But does what we know about managerial decision making suggest that the new product line will be introduced?

Content: Article | Authors: Christopher K. Hsee, Yuval S. Rottenstreich | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Has the American workplace become too informal? Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, takes business casual to task, starting with Jack Welch.

Content: Article | Author: Diane L. Coutu | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

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People want to have positive views of themselves, and organize much of their lives around maintaining, enhancing, and protecting their self-esteem. By simply comparing oneself to more successful rivals, one’s self-esteem may become threatened. These comparisons are particularly intense in the business world when rivals are members of the same company-such as competitors for organizational rewards and promotions-as opposed to rivals from other firms.

The subtleties … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Hoon-Seok Choi, Leigh Thompson, Tanya Menon | Source: Capital Ideas | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The redesign of organizations to become more capable of change and innovation while improving operating efficiencies has become an urgent priority for leaders of companies all over the world. So, where do we turn for help? As we have searched the business world for examples of a new form of organization suited to the rapidly emerging, new context, we have realized what should have been … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Arun N. Maira, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Large companies are neglecting the development of internal executive candidates since the old paternalistic, career-oriented employment contract was destroyed with the downsizings of the 1990s…Similarly, companies invested less in career and executive development because of the new transience and heightened career mobility…So organizations aren’t doing what they need to do to develop executive talent, yet they decry a shortage. Then they poach from other organizations…that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior

The way a company really works is probably not the way managers think it does. Network-analysis techniques can reveal deep corporate knowledge and connections.

Content: Article | Authors: Eric Bonabeau, Valdis Krebs | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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A company becoming a ‘good citizen’ will not only make the world a better place but will also add to shareholder value. An integrative approach is essential.

Content: Article | Authors: Peter Ulrich, Thomas Maak | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Economics, Ethics

Marketers are generally the least financially skilled of all executives in an organization…It’s the language of business, and if you cannot speak that language today, you’re going to be in trouble. And that’s the one prediction I’m pretty confident about. Marketers will have to be financially savvy to keep their jobs in the future.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

Language is messy by nature, which is why we must be careful in how we use it. As leaders, after all, we have little else to work with. We typically don’t use hammers and saws, heavy equipment, or even computers to do our real work. The essence of leadership — what we do with 98 percent of our time — is communication. To master any … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Communication, Leadership

“We don’t have the right people” is an excuse that suits all times and all circumstances; it is a refuge for scoundrels. Moreover, it obscures leaders’ fundamental task of helping people do more together than they could individually.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The dictionary — which, unlike the computer, is an essential leadership tool — contains multiple definitions of the word mission; the most appropriate here is, “purpose, reason for being.” Vision, by contrast, is “a picture or image of the future we seek to create,” and values articulate how we intend to live as we pursue our mission. Paradoxically, if an organization’s mission is truly motivating … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Vision

Have you ever wondered what makes your organization tick, how or why it works (or doesn’t)? Find out by taking our five-minute organizational DNA self-assessment.

By answering a few short questions on your organization’s structure, decision making, motivators, and information processes, you can learn whether your organization is resilient or passive-aggressive, overmanaged or just-in-time, military or outgrown.

Whatever the result, this assessment will help you … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Strategy& | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Organizational Behavior

It’s not vision that makes a company successful. What sets the top performers apart is the organizational models they develop to realize their aspirations.

Content: Article | Authors: Jeffrey W. Bennett, Paul F. Kocourek, Steven B. Hedlund, Thomas E. Pernsteiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Companies that are successful avoid three deadly sins: 1. Arrogance that we will always be successful doing what we’ve always done. 2. Denial or not being realistic, looking in the mirror and saying there is something going on here. 3. Nostalgia for an old business model that has since decayed or is decaying.

Content: Quotation | Source: Quisic | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Men ask for what they want twice as often as women do and initiate negotiation four times more, report economist Linda Babcock and writer Sara Laschever in the footnoted but engaging Women Don’t Ask. With vivid research examples drawn from cradle, classroom and playground, the authors detail culture as the culprit in discouraging women from negotiating on their own behalf.
Men, socialized in a “scrappier … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever | Subjects: Personal Development, Women in Business