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How do you align IT with company goals while also enabling it for success with new resources and development of new capabilities? The methods used to align versus enable are are often opposites. Noted IT expert, Kavin Moody, discusses why there is often a mismatch and provides some new insights on what must be overcome to make things work.

Content: Article | Author: Kavin W. Moody | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior

Your employees may come from nations all around the world. The challenge: Ensure that their contributions aren’t buried under language and cultural differences. Here are seven tips for improving communication.

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Information is not always power…Privilege and power accrue to those who have the capacity to define the systems within which information will be exchanged.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Information, Power / Authority

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs we may be left without mercy and compassion. In rejecting change and risk, we often cheat ourselves of the quest. In denying suffering, we may never know our strength and our greatness.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior

The benefits of establishing an ethical environment can be countless but sometimes are difficult to measure. One area where companies can see a concrete, substantial benefit comes from establishing a program that meets the seven requirements of the US Federal Sentencing Commission’s Organizational Guidelines.

Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Ethics

If a few rotten apples can spoil the barrel, I think we have to look at the nature of the barrel, not just the apples. Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With deficient information and knowledge, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior

People don’t do what you expect but what you inspect.

Content: Quotation | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Measurement, Organizational Behavior

Offering ideas similar to those presented in Mary Cronin’s Unchained Value, Digital Capital presents the concept of the b-web, a new organizing principle for business that is based on the value created from a web of relationships among companies. The authors offer new and enduring ways of looking at organizational structure and competition.

Content: Book | Authors: Alex Lowy, David Ticoll, Don Tapscott | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

There are two reasons people behave the way they do–the reason they tell you and the real reason.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: Personality / Behavior

Facilitators are improvisers. They are instruments of the other people in the room. However…often facilitation is too conversation-driven, and occurs without shared space, without the capture and feedback mechanisms to amplify the effectiveness of the facilitation. But, facilitation is not enough for collaboration; you need to have shared spaces. You need to have media where the ideas can be captured and represented and those representations … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: LiNE Zine | Subject: Teamwork

Career success demands that managers analyze and understand how different corporate cultures operate. Upwardly mobile managers who want to assume greater responsibility need to know what behaviors are most promotable in each culture. Such climates and cultures develop out of top management’s beliefs about how the organization should operate. Understanding culture dynamics helps managers and professionals maximize their potential in which ever culture they work. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

“Money is a taboo topic in our society. Keep it that way.”

Should people in an organization know precisely what their co-workers are paid? …if one wants any peace at the office, secrecy is by far the best option.

Content: Article | Author: Adrian Furnham | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

The recognition of the tension between values and numbers is the first requirement of the strategic manager, and it is the effective reconciliation of that tension that marks a great manager.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Management

Companies can analyze, engineer, and elevate their own human networks, says the pioneering social scientist.

Editor’s Note: This article discusses the concept of network analysis, a useful but as-yet underutilized management tool (one that doesn’t even appear on Bain’s management tools survey).

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The core content of this book by consultant Straus is five principles that enable successful collaborations. They are: Involve relevant stakeholders; Build consensus phase-by-phase; Design a process map; Designate a process facilitator; and, Harness the power of group memory.

Content: Book | Authors: David Straus, Thomas C. Layton | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Earlier this fall, Safeway, a food retailer based in Pleasanton, Calif., took out radio and television ads apologizing to customers of some recently-acquired grocery stores for changes in these stores’ operations. Safeway joined what seems to be a long list of apologizers – from investment bankers to fast food corporations – who have recently expressed regret for a variety of mistakes. With a year full … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Ethics, Management

Disaster response organizations like the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) act as choreographers in a huge show involving countless characters (government, media, NGOs, donor National Societies, affected communities) and materials (food, clothing, medicine, trucks, tents, blankets). When done well, the right aid gets to the right people at the right time. When done poorly, confusion and chaos prevail. … [ Read more ]

Content: Case Study | Authors: Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Kuldeep Kumar, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Ramina Samii | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: Nonprofit, Organizational Behavior | Industry: Non-Profit | Company: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent

Business ethics are about the morally functional nature of our business relationships. Because these relationships are such an important part of daily life, giving them the attention and care they deserve is crucial to an organization’s success.

Content: Member-Contributed Content | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Subject: Ethics

Many employees love it, many employers aren’t so sure. But the work-at-home trend is increasing. The key to making it work isn’t finding the right technology-it’s finding the right people.

Content: Article | Author: Jimmy Guterman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

To determine what ethics we should adopt, we must first decide what ethics are or what being ethical means. In other words, what are the right ethics to have?

Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Ethics