71 Multimedia Posts found for subject: Organizational Behavior

Professor Margaret Shih explains how stereotyping can enhance performance.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Margaret Shih | Source: UCLA | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Professor Eric Flamholtz describes a six point framework (the Pyramid of Organizational Development) that can guide firms to long-term success.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Eric Flamholtz | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

UCLA professor Noah Goldstein on scientifically proven ways to be persuasive

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Noah J. Goldstein | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing and Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship discusses why managers need to focus on the future in order to help an organization remain innovative through difficult and prosperous times.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Rajesh Chandy | Source: London Business School | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling. [Hat tip to Brad Feld]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Simon Sinek | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

In the final in his three part podcast series with Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Donald Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, speaks with the Stanford University Professor about what makes good management teams.

Eisenhardt begins this podcast by stating that in her opinion the most useful metaphor about teams for managers is a basketball team because the teams are fast moving, fluid … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt | Source: London Business School | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

What do you think about the notion of free will? An interesting experiment conducted by the BBC’s “Bang Goes The Theory Team” regarding a psychological phenomenon called “Priming”. It is a phenomenon that may well change your understanding about the way we are all affected by what we see, and so, how we perceive our environment… And all without even knowing. [Hat tip to FinanceProfessor.com] … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Source: BBC | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Daniel Pink | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Ever since Netflix’s awesome vacation policy was revealed to the public (basically, there is no policy, it’s take the time you think you need), the company’s work policies have been of interest to people. A new 128-page presentation called “Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture” was recently sent around the company, and then put on SlideShare, where the blog Hacking Netflix found it.

The … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Why do perfectly rational people make irrational decisions? Ori Brafman, author of the new book “Sway,” explains the strange forces that influence our behavior.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Ori Brafman | Source: BNET | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Ethical dilemmas such as selling scanners that can tell the sex of an unborn child or kerosene heaters without U.S.-required safety features were debated during a discussion on “Academic vs. Real World Ethics” led by Stanford Professor David Brady. View the full video.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Brady | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Ethics