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- Teaching Team Behaviors Earlier...Much Earlier
- Did a person ever wonder why adults seem to struggle when assigned to a new workplace team of some kind? As organizations increase their use of teams, the "New" skills and behaviors required seem to challenge everyone. Why does a person have so much difficulty in the workplace with something...
- White papers
- The Impact of Ethical Leadership Behavior on Employee Outcomes
- The topics of authentic leadership and the ethical behavior of leaders have received significant interest in recent years due to the plethora of ethical scandals in corporations. In this paper, the authors' have developed a theoretical framework that maintains that employees' psychological empowerment mediates the relationship between leaders' ethical behaviors...
- White papers
- Business Ethics: Pay the Bribe?
- Ethical behavior is not a global standard. In some geographies, paying a bribe is not considered an ethical or moral issue -- it's just the cost of doing business. So should you pay the bribe, too? Harvard Business School professor Bill George makes the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavior
- It may not be right, but we often overlook unethical behavior in others. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and colleagues explain the psychological reasons why this is so, and what companies can do about it. The paper, See No Evil: When...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Closing Rule #1: Think Like a Closer.
- We're going to spend this week on a key skill: how to close. The last time we touched on this subject, I pointed out the many problems with manipulative "trick closes," so I'm not going to go over that material again. Instead, I'm going to present a series...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Interface Modeling - A Modular Approach To Identify And Assess Unintended Product Behavior
- The purpose of the individual components of a technical system are often well-defined although possibly poorly understood, but the interactions, which take place at the interfaces between the components, are frequently hard to understand and describe, thus, making the behavior of a new or adapted system difficult to predict. Engineering...
- White papers 2006-05-31
- Entrepreneurs And Evolutionary Biology
- Biological evolutionary processes select for heritable behaviors providing a survival and reproductive advantage. Accordingly, how we behave is, at least in part, affected by the evolutionary history of our species. This research uses evolutionary psychology as the theoretical perspective for exploring the relationship between a heritable biological characteristic testosterone level...
- White papers 2005-10-04
- What Are You Unwilling to Change?
- The article reveals that even when faced with imminent death due to serious heart problems, only one in nine people actually change their behavior. In order to lead change, leaders must begin with themselves. Leading change always begins with a deeply personal journey. Change happens from the inside out. The...
- White papers 2005-08-13
- Intrinsic Motivation for Reinforcement Learning Systems
- Motivation is a key factor in human learning. The authors learn best when they are highly motivated to learn. Psychologists distinguish between extrinsically-motivated behavior, which is behavior undertaken to achieve some externally supplied reward, such as a prize, a high grade, or a high-paying job, and intrinsically-motivated behavior, which is...
- White papers 2005-05-20
- Cognitive Asymmetry in Employee Affective Reactions to Leadership Behaviors
- This paper presents the results of a qualitative study of subordinate perceptions of leaders in the workplace, and how they respond emotionally to particular leadership behaviors. The study represents an exploration of a model based on Affective Events Theory AET, which posits that effective leaders are seen to shape the...
- White papers 2005-03-24
- Fleet Purchase Behavior: Decision Processes and Implications for New Vehicle Technologies and Fuels
- Vehicle fleets are a poorly understood part of the economy. They are important, though, in that they purchase a large share of light-duty vehicles, and are often targeted by governments as agents of change. This paper investigates fleet purchase behavior, using focus groups, interviews, and mail and telephone surveys. It...
- White papers 2005-02-16
- Unleashing Winning Behaviors
- Human behavior is almost always rational. People, much like companies, devise personal strategies for meeting their objectives that take intelligent measure of the powers they have and the constraints that hem them in. They may not always be able to articulate their modes of coping. Nor can they always see...
- White papers 2004-08-13
- Mastering Organizational Change
- The central challenge of change management is altering behavior. Creating shifts in what people actually do can be more important than introducing new technologies or rolling out new strategies. An organization's culture is defined by persistent patterns of behavior; cultural change begins at the behavioral level. Fostering new behaviors is...
- White papers 2004-07-16
- The Top Ten Reasons Projects Fail (Part 10)
- What do we mean by culture and ethics? In this paper what we mean by culture is shared beliefs and values. Ethical behavior is what is considered correct behavior in the organizational context. These beliefs and values are found in company statements but - more importantly - they are found...
- White papers 2004-02-23
- Two Avenues for Encouraging Conservation Behaviors
- Environmental organizations and natural resource agencies often seek education and communication strategies to encourage effective conservation behaviors. This paper extends the discussion from the Conservation Psychology Dialogue in May 2002 to define two broad avenues for activities that may nudge individuals and society toward more responsible environmental behaviors: the specific...
- White papers 2004-02-02
- How Frequent Is Organizational Political Behavior?
- This paper explains the extent to which Swedish managers have reported that political behavior existed at their companies during change activities. Several scientific case studies lend support to the change management writers who argue that political behavior is an important factor in organizational change. There is, however, a lack of...
- White papers 2004-01-06
- Detoxifying A Toxic Leader
- When a difficult leader or manager is wreaking havoc, sending him or her to a course on leadership will do nothing to alter the behavior that stems from deep-seated negative belief systems, blind spots, and unconscious behavior. Methods that aim at the intellect, and neglect the more basic human...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Ethical Behavior And Social Responsibility
- The corporate code of ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right and what is wrong. An ethical behavior is operationalized through proper implementation of the corporate code of ethics in the organization. There exist...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The ABCs Of Skill-Based Motivation & Learning
- Human behavior refers to the responses or reactions made by individuals while addressing different kinds of stimuli. Motivation is the psychological feature that arouses the behavior of an individual towards accomplishment of certain pre-defined goals. Thus, motivation plays a significant role in shaping the human behavior. The paper examines the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Ethical and Legal Issues in Selling
- This presentation provides the information on ethical and legal issues in selling process. The objective of this presentation is to make one aware of the need for developing principles upon which to base ethical behavior, to recognize the various sources of influence on ethics and ethical behavior, to understand the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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