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While lying in the workplace is prevalent, it simply doesn’t work, according to this author, who has conducted several studies on the the topic. In fact, the greatest risk is in turning a blind eye and making dishonesty acceptable. As the author writes, the potential damage unleashed by an ethically permissive workplace may far exceed the lost labor of an employee taking a short nap … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John Carlson | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Organizational Behavior

A historian’s approach to strategic empathy can help you anticipate your rivals’ next moves.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Theodore Kinni, Zachary Shore | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Imagine that you are now the CEO. Further imagine that your organization is underperforming. Worse yet, your organization has low employee morale, high labor turnover, declining market share, falling profits, competitors that are under-pricing you, and constant criticism from your board of directors, investors and investment analysts. Sound like a fun job? What are you going to do?

Content: Article | Author: Gary Cokins | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

All rewards, by virtue of being rewards, are not attempts to influence or persuade or solve problems together, but simply to control. […] Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control. […] Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. […] … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Alfie Kohn | Subjects: Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Leaders need to examine their effectiveness at managing virtuous behavior to add value to organizations. Virtuousness is not only important from a humanistic point of view in workplace settings, but helps drive important organizational outcomes.

Editor’s Note: this article is much better than the description indicates. It offers a methodology for both analyzing your strengths (the well-known VIA survey) and making sure that you are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Charles D. Kerns, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The man who can think but does not know how to express what he thinks is at the same level as he who cannot think.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Thought

If you put a good person into a bad system the system will win. This has been proven so often that it has become a truism in the quality improvement field called the “85/15 Rule”. The 85/15 Rule shows that if you trace errors or service complaints back to the root cause, about 85% of the time the fault lays in the system, processes, structure, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: Operations, Organizational Behavior, Quality

Who are the informal leaders in your company? Which connections would increase your ability to get your job done? Visualizing your social network will help you to understand your position in the company and whether it is consistent with your short- and long-term objectives.

Content: Article | Authors: Fabrizio Ferraro, Marco Tortoriello | Source: IESE Insight | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here’s why, and what to do about it.

Content: Article | Authors: Claire Shipman, Katty Kay | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves job performance in the long run.

Content: Article | Authors: Carmen Nobel, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Forget the monolithic change management programs and focus on the elements of your culture that drive performance.

Content: Article | Authors: James Thomas, Jon R. Katzenbach, Rutger von Post | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

A look at the basics of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, specifically referring to books by Dan Pink and Dan Ariely. Pretty basic level analysis, but useful if you aren’t already comfortable with the topic.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Dan Ariely, Daniel Pink | Source: YouTube | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Our lives are made for success—and not just for enjoying it, but for seeking it as well. As a matter of fact, the people who are most likely to enjoy success are those who most enjoy seeking it. Those people are able to find satisfaction in the journey, not just at the end of the road.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Morris | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Life, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

There are two kinds of dissatisfaction in life: One is what I call the “dissatisfaction of acquisition.” The other is the “dissatisfaction of aspiration.” The dissatisfaction of acquisition centers on the drive to have more things. We live in a competitive culture—a culture of more. And in such a culture, it’s hard to set limits. The dissatisfaction of acquisition is an unhealthy dissatisfaction; it’s caused … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Morris | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Life, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

The greatest case of mistaken identity in modern society relates to the four marks of public success: money, power, fame, and status. I have no problem with money, power, fame, or status—as long as they’re treated as resources, rather than as goals in themselves. But that’s precisely the problem for most people—and that’s why it’s so hard for people to answer the question “How much … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Morris | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Life, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

Most people think that they need to know a lot about a subject before they speak about it. The challenge of speaking calls up thoughts that you don’t even know are percolating inside your brain. People are unread books. Speaking forces you to say out loud what you know deep inside.

To think deeply, don’t ask questions. Talk about something that you don’t entirely know—and discover … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Communication, Learning, Thought

All around us there is a breakdown of values […] It is not just the […] overpowering greed that pervades our business life. It is the fact that we are not willing to sacrifice for the ethics and values we profess. For an ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without some sacrifice to it. Something given up, something not taken, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Values

When you connect the development of your top talent with the needs of your organization, everyone wins—and your best people stay. To assess how well you’re retaining your top talent, take our interactive quiz.

Content: Article | Author: Susan Cramm | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Ethics programs have arisen in response to the public’s outcry over the perceived unethical behavior of American business. The rapid response in the establishment of ethics programs is encouraging, though interesting issues have emerged that merit discussion.

Content: Article | Author: Jere E. Yates | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Ethics

Competent people have a predictable, reliable process for solving a particular set of problems. They solve a problem the same way, every time. That’s what makes them reliable. That’s what makes them competent. Competent people are quite proud of the status and success that they get out of being competent. They like being competent. They guard their competence, and they work hard to maintain it. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Competence, Organizational Behavior