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How to Inspire Creativity and Reward Good Employees (Like You and Me)

Let’s face it. Anyone reading this article thinks that information about how to reward highly-regarded employees applies to them. And we all have ideas about what these rewards should be (more money, bigger title, bigger office, etc.) But short of giving out stock options that will be worth $500 zillion in six months, how can managers provide meaningful incentives, and rewards, for star performers? Wharton … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

1001 Ways to Reward Employees

This booklet should be required reading for managers. The author presents a compelling case for recognition and positive reinforcement in management practice. And for some old-time micro-managers, he shows that employee coercion is no longer an option. This book examines ways, means and methods used by corporations to recognize employees. It also discusses a common failing; “…it is a rare manager who systematically makes the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Bob Nelson, Kenneth H. Blanchard | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The Changing Face Of IT

As IT becomes even more integral to success, companies are rethinking how the organization looks, functions, and interacts with the rest of the business.

Content: Article | Author: Diane Rezendes Khirallah | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior | Industry: Information Technology

Corporate Culture in Internet Time

The foundation of the company is no longer the company: It’s the team.

Editor’s Note: I found the discussion of two cultures in startups – hype and craft – to be especially interesting, and accurate from my personal experiences.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The Fifth Discipline : The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, experienced an epiphany while meditating one morning back in the fall of 1987. That was the day he first saw the possibilities of a “learning organization” that used “systems thinking” as the primary tenet of a revolutionary management philosophy. He advanced the concept into this primer, originally released in 1990, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter Senge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

David Dunham

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Stephen Covey

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: Principle-centered Leadership | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Trust Fund

In politics as in affairs of the heart, building trust remains that most elusive ideal. But creating it in your workplace could be your greatest competitive advantage.

Content: Article | Author: Arthur Ciancutti | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Organizing for Innovation in Large Firms: Resource Allocation Mechanisms for R&D in Large Firms

This 23-page .pdf paper investigates how a firm can best be organized to facilitate innovation, specifically concentrating on the design of R&D resource allocation systems and the use of external technology sources. The study’s key findings are that increased use of external sources of technology results in increased efficiency but decreased effectiveness and that no strong relationship was found between the use of internal … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Carl F. Fey, Julian Birkinshaw | Source: SSE/EFI Working Paper Series | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 1999

This .pdf report comes from the Current Population Survey, a survey of the US Census Bureau, and represent nearly 50,000 US households. The main body of the report contains 18 data tables, incl. “Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by selected characteristics,” “Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and sex,” and “Median usual weekly earnings … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | Subjects: Market Research, Women in Business

The Human Side of Enterprise

Heralded as one of the most important pieces of management literature ever written, a touchstone for scholars and a handbook for practitioners, The Human Side of Enterprise continues to receive the highest accolades nearly half a century after its initial publication. Influencing such major management gurus such as Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, McGregor’s revolutionary Theory Y-which contends that individuals are self-motivated and self-directed-and Theory … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Douglas McGregor | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Danger:Toxic Company

The problem isn’t that loyalty is dead or that careers are history. The real problem, argues Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer, is that so many companies are toxic — and that they get exactly what they deserve.

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior