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Despite the variety of personalities and attitudes out there, you can still roughly categorize people into two groups: the problem-bringers and problem-solvers. When you ask a problem-bringer about a problem, you’ll hear about the problem and nothing more. We’ve all worked with these folks, and you know that they can spend all day telling you about a problem without ever coming close to offering a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Mark Murphy | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

An economy doesn’t operate by market forces alone—it’s dependent on actions of business and consumers and government. There is a clear role for government in creating an environment in which business gets new opportunities. Yes, government should get out of spaces where it doesn’t have to be and let business do its thing. But government needs to be where there are so-called external effects, which … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bart van Ark | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Economics, Government, Politics

The methods used by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to promote health in a West Virginia city can also be used to raise organizational performance.

Content: Article | Author: Rutger von Post | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

When you hire people to work for you, it should be expected that they have a basic level of competence. When you simply recognize people for doing what they are hired to do, it reinforces a culture where the status quo is good enough. If the company is so risk-averse that people aren’t willing to try anything new, while all you do is reward people … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen Shapiro | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Accountability, Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

If you’re going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won’t.

Content: Quotation | Author: Admiral Hyman Rickover | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Bureaucracy

Companies know that collaboration among people, departments and organizations is important. But collaboration behaviors, structures and outcomes are tough to quantify and, as the saying goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Accenture offers insights on how to identify and obtain the most productive levels and kinds of collaboration.

Content: Article | Authors: Robert J. Thomas, Yaarit Silverstone | Source: Accenture | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The decisions made by powerful people in business and other fields have far-reaching effects on their organizations and employees. But this paper from Kelly E. See, Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison, Naomi B. Rothman, and Jack B. Soll finds a link between having a sense of power and having a propensity to give short shrift to a crucial part of the decision-making process: listening to advice. Power … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

As organizations become increasingly global in scope and complex in structure, decisions that need to be made are often left unresolved. People who should be collaborating instead circle around one another warily. A tool known as a role charter can help ensure both effective decision-making and collaboration.

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Toma, Julie Kilmann, Michael Shanahan | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Whether we are dealing with business, global diplomacy, or family matters, we are all perplexed by the complexity of ethics in negotiation. This article introduces a simple, straightforward exercise that can lead to very meaningful discussions regarding ethics, negotiation tactics, and the ramifications and effectiveness of the implementation of those tactics and ethical decisions.

Content: Article | Author: Michael B. Rainey, J.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Ethics, Negotiation

Analytics is the science of better decision-making; and decision-making is the heart of business.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jim Guszcza, John Lucker | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Trends / Analysis

Here are the 4 key cultural elements all high-performing organizations must have – and how leadership can support them.

Content: Article | Author: Bernhard Opitz | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

In business, we tend to spend a lot more time thinking about the problems than the triumphs. People need to know that what they’re doing is making a difference, and that their leaders notice and appreciate their efforts.

Content: Quotation | Author: Irene Rosenfeld | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Change Management, Communication, Management, Motivation

In a world facing increasing complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty, it is both good and necessary to be reminded of deeper truths and practical principles for creating lasting change. Winner of the Nautilus Award for Conscious Business and Leadership, this book is for leaders, groups, communities, and networks desiring to increase our human capacity for creativity, well being, and social change. The Power of Collective Wisdom … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alan Briskin, John Ott, Sheryl Erickson, Tom Callanan | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

All too often, companies unintentionally create their own worst crises. With a little awareness of your organizational DNA, you can avoid that fate — and the headlines that go with it.

Content: Article | Author: Eric Kronenberg | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Unless employees truly understand the issues [that affect the business] and make a meaningful connection between their jobs and those issues, their attitudes and behaviors will not change. To achieve engagement, three things have to happen: The business issue has to mean something to the employee personally, the employee has to understand the issue (and I mean truly understand it, not just read about why … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Marcia Xenitelis | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Communication, Organizational Behavior

The frequency at which the word “engagement” appears in any discussion about employee communication has begun to make me wonder whether we clearly understand what the term means. As communicators we have the opportunity to become creative in how we communicate and engage employees. The ultimate aim in employee communication has to be to create the “Aha!” moment. This is the moment when employees have … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Marcia Xenitelis | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Organizational Behavior

If you ask a lot of employees about their organization’s culture, chances are you will get various answers that aren’t exactly precise. One friend described his office environment as insular and isolationist. Another said his company’s culture was “grateful, like Thanksgiving.”

Fortunately, there is a way of formally diagnosing corporate culture so that we can map our organization’s key characteristics to its mission and goals, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Alexandra Levit | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Recent high-profile scandals at Penn State, MF Global Holdings, Olympus and elsewhere raise questions about why organizations often fail to address significant internal problems that at best impede performance, and at worst could have devastating effects. In hindsight, especially to observers, it is clear what should have been done. But for employees, exposing such problems is more complicated than telling right from wrong, say experts … [ Read more ]

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

You know how you can tell when you’ve made a good decision? If you feel like you waited too long to make it, then it’s a good decision.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jason Fried | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Decision Making

Workers with new skills will leave if they don’t see a career path ahead.

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