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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Content: Quotation | Author: Clay Shirky | Subjects: Bureaucracy, Management, Organizational Behavior

The experience of … entrepreneurs reflects an unfortunate reality: companies are set up to perform. They are not set up to produce. If they were more capable at producing, they would not have to worry about combating disruption from outside. They would already be skilled at redesigning, disrupting, and innovating from within.

As a rule, large organizations do a poor job of distinguishing between high-profile … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John Sviokla, Mitch Cohen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

A successful innovation is a little like an iceberg: Look under or behind the innovation and you’ll see the smart practices, processes and structures that supported the success of the innovation. Herewith, six practices to avoid, and that are sure to compromise the chances of success.

Content: Article | Author: Rita Gunther McGrath | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

The Culture Map can help managers negotiate the complexity of cultural variation. It is made up of eight scales representing those behaviors where cultural gaps are most common. Through plotting out how two cultures fall on the 8 cultural dimensions, you can analyze the gaps and similarities and determine where the likely tensions and opportunities will arise with each collaboration.

Content: Article | Author: Erin Meyer | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: International, Management, Organizational Behavior

People are afraid to compete because they prefer to pretend they could have won if they played, than to know that they played and lost.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Fear / Doubt, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

This paper presents the findings of analyses of the database of twenty-one organizational value characteristics sampled through surveys from three professional organizations (direct marketing, information technology and finance). The objective was to determine if there is consistent evidence for the existence of the traditional organic and mechanistic organizational types. The authors further examined the data from one of the groups (Financial professionals), to determine if … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Gregory K. Jin, Ronald Drozdenko, Sara Deloughy | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Why women find it so difficult to access top jobs and why the change takes so long.

Content: Article | Author: Ludo Van der Heyden | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Women in Business

Lack of time or resources can, of course, constrain knowledge transfer. But one barrier to passing deep smarts along to the next generation that is often unaddressed is the expert’s inclination to hoard knowledge. Financial incentives, personal ego, and discontent or frustration with the company are three of the top reasons individuals choose to keep their expertise to themselves. But they’re also three issues that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dorothy Leonard | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Knowledge Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

What I learned is that burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work.

Content: Quotation | Author: Keith Yost | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Work

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Sheryl Sandberg | Subject: Women in Business

What people say they want and what people are willing to work their ass off to get are two different things.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Subjects: Achievement, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

The Stanford professor explains how social distance (construal-level theory) affects how people respond to feedback.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Laura W. Geller, Nir Halevy | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Ruskin | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Work

Non-rational or irrational decision-making in organizations has fascinated Nobel prizewinners for decades, from Herbert Simon’s theory of bounded rationality to Daniel Kahneman’s discovery that when we process information, our brains interchange between two different systems: deliberative processing and intuition, our default position in daily life. But Cass professors André Spicer and Mats Alvesson believe these works miss a set of deviations from smartness, which are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: André Spicer, Mats Alvesson | Source: Cass Business School | Subject: Organizational Behavior

This is the sad reality in workplaces around the world: Women help more but benefit less from it. In keeping with deeply held gender stereotypes, we expect men to be ambitious and results-oriented, and women to be nurturing and communal. When a man offers to help, we shower him with praise and rewards. But when a woman helps, we feel less indebted. She’s communal, right? … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Women in Business

strategy+business presents their 14th annual best business books special section with picks from seven eminent reviewers.

Editor’s Note: As usual, these pieces offer more than just listings of recommended books. In particular, I recommend you read the entries on strategy and economics.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Management, Organizational Behavior, Social Responsibility (ESG), Strategy

Most of the time, developing and mining a network is a smart move. A person develops social networks hoping and expecting to gain something—whether that be a job, contact, investor, or simply a friend. He may turn to those networks when in need or feeling vulnerable, perhaps when trying to make a risky business decision.

But avid networker, beware: these social networks have a dark side. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Samantha Stainburn | Source: Capital Ideas | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Rapid change requires companies to reorganize more frequently, more fundamentally, and faster than ever before. But the odds for failure are high. New BCG research has uncovered six critical success factors that can dramatically flip a company’s odds of reorganization success—and help it achieve reorganization’s ultimate purpose: driving competitive advantage.

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Toma, Brad Noakes, Fabrice Roghé, Julie Kilmann, Ralf Dicke | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

A strange pattern hovers over incentive/motivation programs. When economic times are good, companies launch incentive programs to reward high achievers. These programs create a positive energy that encourages competition, team play, and results. During economic slumps, these same companies quickly disassemble their incentive programs and re-evaluate the costs. Budgets once approved without hesitation are eliminated or severely reduced. Company executives know incentive programs can motivate … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brian J O’Hare | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

When making a decision, two heads can be better than one, but two – or even more – perspectives are definitely better than one, especially in today’s dynamic and widely different global markets. These authors call it ensemble decision making and they describe four patterns and three steps for making it work.

Content: Article | Authors: Claudy Jules, Joshua B. Bellin, Nandani Lynton, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: International, Management, Organizational Behavior