71 Multimedia Posts found for subject: Organizational Behavior

A good boss can make a big difference. But what makes a supervisor effective? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor of Economics Kathryn Shaw found that strong managers use similar strategies and have a lasting positive impact on the careers of their employees. Here’s how they do it.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Beth Rimbey, Kathryn Shaw | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Stanford Graduate School of Business PhD alum Kathleen Eisenhardt, a professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, studied how product development teams burdened by a complicated set of rules frequently derail while teams with no rules at all never even get started.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Kathleen M. Eisenhardt | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

What makes certain teams excel and others perform below par? In a new book, Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance, Mario Moussa, Madeline Boyer and Derek Newberry divulge the surprising secrets to developing a high-performance team and the common mistakes groups make that hinder their cooperation.

Jeffrey Klein, executive director of the McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton, recently spoke with Moussa, a Wharton … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Jeffrey Klein, Mario Moussa | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

In multinational businesses, team members often have to communicate information to colleagues based across the globe. But for a host of reasons, that information sharing often doesn’t happen as effectively as it should.

Wharton management professor Martine Haas was curious about precisely which issues were most responsible for impairing that vital communication, and what could be done to improve it. She and Jonathon Cummings of Duke … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Martine Haas | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Organizational Behavior

After analyzing data from more than 15,000 interviews with CEOs and other business leaders, executives from management consulting company ghSMART found that three fundamental factors drive leadership success. In their book, Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success, Geoff Smart, Randy Street and Alan Foster describe what they learned.

In this interview with Knowledge@Wharton, co-authors Street and Foster talk about the formula for management success, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Stanford’s Robert Sutton discusses the mind-set and strategies of companies that are most adept at building and spreading high standards.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

A professor of organizational behavior explains why strategic thinking is key to taking an idea to the next level.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Jesper Sørensen | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

How an organization makes its people-related decisions has a huge impact on its success or failure. But traditionally, these decisions have largely been based on intuition and biases and therefore have been prone to error. But now, companies are starting to use data and sophisticated analysis in issues such as recruiting, compensation and performance evaluation because they believe it can help in better decision making. … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Adam Grant, Cade Massey | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

You’re doing everything right at work, taking all the right advice, but you’re just not moving up. Why? Susan Colantuono shares a simple, surprising piece of advice you might not have heard before quite so plainly. This talk, while aimed at an audience of women, has universal takeaways — for men and women, new grads and midcareer workers.

Editor’s Note: Something didn’t really resonate … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Susan Colantuono | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tom Wujec | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

How does behavioral economics impact our decision making process?

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Francesca Gino, John Beshears | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Economics, Organizational Behavior

Charles O’Reilly explains why companies that value adaptability perform better, and how managers can create this dynamic.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Charles O’Reilly | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The author of Give and Take explains why generosity in the workplace continues to be more effective than selfishness and why it is critical for personal fulfillment.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Adam Grant | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior

Stanford’s Robert Sutton discusses the mind-set and strategies of companies that are most adept at building and spreading high standards.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today’s businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex — and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. So, he says, it falls to individual employees to navigate the rabbit’s warren of interdependencies. In this energetic talk, Morieux offers six rules for “smart simplicity.” (Rule One: Understand what your colleagues actually do.)

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Yves Morieux | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior

Everyone cheats a little from time to time. But most major betrayals within organizations — from accounting fraud to doping in sports — start with a first step that crosses the line, according to Dan Ariely, a leading behavioral economist at Duke and author of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves. That step can start people on a … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Adam Grant, Dan Ariely | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Ethics, 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

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers—and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Margaret A. Heffernan | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subject: Organizational Behavior

In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Clay Shirky | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Is it more important to say the right thing or act the right way? Professor Gruenfeld provides compelling research about how we perceive power in our relationships, examining the words we use, non-verbal cues and the ways in which we communicate. She shares how we can most effectively get our message across.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development