The HubSpot Culture Code
This is a slide deck created by HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah to sketch out the company’s culture. For background information, read the related First Round Review article.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Dharmesh Shah | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior
Assess Your Transformation Pathways
This simple tool can help your team assess your organization’s current performance level across 6 areas (16 items to assess) and consider how important each is to develop a big-picture awareness of any gaps you need to work on.
Content: Online Resource | Source: The CLEMMER Group | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Organization Effectiveness Simulator
To translate insight into action, Booz & Company have developed an online simulation tool that enables individuals to audition various five-step organizational change programs. After assessing the current state of your organization and diagnosing it as one of seven common types, you can select from among 28 specific actions that map to one or more of the organizational DNA building blocks—decision rights, information, motivators, or … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Strategy& | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management, Organizational Behavior
f Score – How Do You Trigger Fascination?
The F Score test reveals which fascination triggers (there are 7) you naturally apply, which others you should consider, and how to refine them to become more persuasive.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Sally Hogshead | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
How ethical are you?
Are you an enforcer, philosopher, judge, angel, teacher or guardian? Find out the composition of your moral DNA with our test.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Roger Steare | Source: The Times | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
ChangingMinds.org
the largest site in the world on all aspects of how we change what others think, believe, feel and do. There are already over 2500 pages here, with much more to come. [Hat Tip to Guy Kawasaki]
Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Management, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
Learning Organization Survey
This online diagnostic tool is part of a Harvard Business Review package on organizational learning aimed at helping you judge your own organization’s learning capabilities. It will help you answer key questions, including: To what extent is your unit functioning as a learning organization? and what are the relationships among the factors that affect learning in your unit?
Content: Online Resource | Authors: Amy Edmondson, David Garvin | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Management, Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior – A Diagnostic Approach
Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Courses / Tutorials, Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior – 8th Edition
Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Courses / Tutorials, Organizational Behavior
Futureorg
Futureorg is a site with the goal of providing a coherent and innovative line of thinking that provides direction for the future of organizational development. The organizers want to develop this line of thinking in a book based on input by MBA students and researchers from around the world. If you have an interest in OB/OD and want to contribute, visit the site.
Content: Online Resource | Source: Futureorg.org | Subject: Organizational Behavior
The MIT Process Handbook Project
The goal of the MIT Process Handbook Project is to develop rich online libraries for sharing and managing many kinds of knowledge about business. For example, these libraries can help find interesting case examples, generate innovative ideas about new business possibilities, and develop new computer programs.
Starting in 1991, we have developed one such library. We call it the Process Handbook–an extensive online knowledge base including … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Business Ethics in the Movies
Sometimes the most appealing Web sites are those without all the Java bells and whistles-just simple information presented simply. “What can you learn about business ethics from the movies?” wondered Carolyn Johnson, business librarian at Arizona State University. The answer is this Web site. Here you’ll find a list of movies that in some way or other offer interesting perspectives on tricky business issues. Johnson … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Carolyn Johnson | Source: Arizona State University West | Subject: Ethics
Melcrum
Melcrum tracks trends in organizational development and presents best practice application of new concepts, tools and ideas to assist managers to make both profitable and responsible business decisions. Resources at the site are categorized under six main topics: corporate and internal communication, human resources, knowledge management, intranets and corporate responsibility. The structure of information at each of the six silos is similar, with a collection … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: MELCRUM PUBLISHING | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Practical Ethics Exercise
This exercise presents you with 15 situations that you might well experience (depending upon the nature and level of your job) in everyday working life. Management students of Professor Burke Pease at California State University, Monterey Bay have kindly helped with the 15 situations and alternative answers. All created on the basis of real life.
The objective of the exercise is to enable you to think … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Burke Pease | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Ethics
Women Working, 1870-1930
The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program mines Harvard’s large number of libraries to create digital collections of primary historical materials for use by teachers, students, and researchers. Women Working is OCP’s first project, a searchable archive of materials to be drawn ultimately from 2,200 books, 1,000 photographs, and 10,000 pages of manuscript collections. The site can be searched by keyword or browsed by topic. … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: History, Women in Business
e-magnify.com
Seton Hill University’s National Education Center for Women in Business, started in 1991, offers programs tailored to women entrepreneurs. E-magnify is the online arm of the initiative, and women in business would do well to check out the resources offered here. Under the frequently updated “Articles” section is a wealth of good advice on running a small business, with titles ranging from “Promoting Your Business … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Seton Hill University National Education Center for Women in Business | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Women in Business
Org DNA Profiler
Have you ever wondered what makes your organization tick, how or why it works (or doesn’t)? Find out by taking our five-minute organizational DNA self-assessment.
By answering a few short questions on your organization’s structure, decision making, motivators, and information processes, you can learn whether your organization is resilient or passive-aggressive, overmanaged or just-in-time, military or outgrown.
Whatever the result, this assessment will help you … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Strategy& | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Organizational Behavior
Business Ethics
This browsable, well-maintained directory of resources related to business ethics includes articles, publications, case studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations and associations, and more. From librarian Sharon Stoerger of the University of Illinois.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Sharon Stoerger | Subject: Ethics
Earning Differences Between Women and Men
Earning Differences Between Women and Men is a report from the US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau. This short report is peppered with charts and graphs from government agencies including the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report explains that the wage gap still exists, with men earning on average 23.5 percent more than women. While the wage gap is shrinking, it … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau | Subjects: Demographics, Women in Business
Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age
The Harvard Business School presents Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age. This manuscript collection, housed at the Harvard’s Baker Library, was extensively researched and surveyed in May 1999. Along with detailed descriptions of the collection, the site also offers a sample of digitized manuscripts. The collection is divided into four major categories: Women at Work, Women in Business, Women as … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Sources: Baker Library, Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Women in Business