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- Researchers to Managers: Employees CAN Change
- The Find: Managers who believe in their employees' capacity to change and grow are more likely to provide them support and to spot changes in performance than those who believe you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The Source: "Managers' Implicit Assumptions About Personnel" in...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Management Science Says Rock Star Performance Isn't Portable
- The Find: Poaching star performers from rivals is unlikely to yield the hoped-for results. The Source: Management Insights from the July issue of the journal Management Science. The Takeaway: The researchers analyzed the performance of star analysts over a period of nine years to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Sutton: Calculate Your "Total Cost of Jerks"
- The Find: If you really want to motivate yourself and your company to root out jerks and their productivity and creativity sucking behavior, one business guru suggest you calculate your TCJ: total cost of jerks. The Source: An article entitled "Building the Civilized Workplace" by No Asshole...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Scientists Urge Execs to Be Choosy about Choices
- The Find: The ability to make good decisions is key to management and rests on a brain function called "executive function," but psychologists warn that this decision making function is far more easily depleted than once thought. The Source: A fascinating article in Scientific American....
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Top 5 Recession-Proof Jobs
- The Find: The economic news may be moving from bad to dreadful, but at least some folks don't have to worry; one recruitment company has identified the top five recession-proof jobs. The Source: A study from Washington, DC based recruitment company, Jobfox. The Takeaway:...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Study: U.S. Exporting Fair Hiring Practices
- The Find: American firms have been found to follow U.S. anti-discrimination laws even when hiring in countries without regulations against bias in hiring, spreading American ideas of fair hiring practices across the world. The Source: A new study of gender and age discrimination co-written by a University...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Commercial Governance Ratings in Question
- The Find: Governance advisory firms claim they can predict the future performance of a public company by analyzing public data, but new research claims the value of their ratings is dubious at best. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- CEO: Encourage Candidates to Turn You Down
- The Find: If you want better quality employees more suited to your company culture, one CEO feels your best bet is to make it easy for job candidates to say no to your offer. The Source: Summation, the blog of Auren Hoffman, CEO of Rapleaf. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Crummy Jobs Cross the Atlantic
- The Find: Crummy jobs aren't just an American phenomenon: a new survey finds half of UK employees feel less than valued by their employer. The Source: A report -- Social Capital in the Workplace -- conducted by the Workplace Intelligence Unit WIU and forward thinking inc. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Real World Ethics for Writing Your Resume
- The Find: Practical, expert guidance on how to stay on the right side of the ethical divide when polishing your resume. The Source: Harvard Business Online's Conversation Starter. The Takeaway: When you're applying for that dream "reach" job the temptation is always there to,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Train Yourself to Stay Alert in Boring Meetings
- The Find: Psychologists to the rescue: researchers have discovered a method that allows people to train themselves to stay alert during boring tasks and seemingly endless meetings. The Source: "Self-Alert Training: Volitional modulation of autonomic arousal improves sustained attention" say that five times fast by Redmond O'Connell...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Changing Jobs is a Challenge, Even for Executives
- The Find: One-third of executives who transfer to a new company and one in five business leaders who change jobs within the same company are not successful -- even after two years on the job. The Source: The new "Executive Transitions" study by The Institute of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Psych Tests to Keep Your Turnover Low
- The Find: Forget environmental factors, job hopping is largely dependent on the personality of employees. The Source: Research from the Summer 2008 issue of Personnel Psychology cited in the HR Tests blog. The Takeaway: On BNET recently, the topic of whether you should hire...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Top Companies Pay Employees Less, But Hold Onto Them Longer
- The Find: Successful companies pay salaries that are 5 percent lower than those of their peers, through retention tactics and avoiding the need to pay for expensive outside talent. The Source: Deeper analysis of Fortune's "Most Admired Companies," from the consultancy Hay Group. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Why (Again) It Makes Sense to Delegate, Delegate, Delegate
- The Find: Handing your employees more authority and responsibility may improve their ability to make and execute plans; conversely, limiting their ability to make decisions hampers thinking. The Source: New research in the May issue of "Psychological Science" out of Radboud University Nijmegen, VU University Amsterdam, and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- A Field Guide to Managing Hourly Workers
- The Find: Hourly workers make up 60 percent of the U.S. labor force, yet little effort is spent on improving their productivity -- despite research that suggests that you can do so. The Source: A study by the Workforce Institute. The Takeaway: Besides...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Wanna Show Managerial Determination? Cross Your Arms
- The Find: If you're stuck with a challenging problem and looking for an extra dose of perseverance, simply crossing your arms might help. The Source: "The Effect of Arm Crossing on Persistence and Performance," a new study in the European Journal of Social Psychology, cited in the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Euro v. U.S. Execs on Globalization: It's All About Retaining Talent
- The Find: While 90 percent of CEOs worldwide view globalization as both inevitable and positive, American business leaders are significantly more worried about retaining talent in a flat world than their counterparts in Europe. The Source: The EquaTerra Globalization Study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit on...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Does the CEO Track Include a Stop in 'Design Thinking'?
- The find: An executive training program at Stanford claims executives can benefit from being taught to tinker like designers. The source: Work Matters, the blog of Bob Sutton, Stanford business school and author of "The No Asshole Rule" and other books. The takeaway: First...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- How to Become a CEO, in Three Easy Steps
- The Find: An HR consultancy has laid out the key skills for each rung on the career ladder, providing a road map for managers on their way up. The Source: The recent "Pulse on Leaders" study from Personnel Decisions International PDI. The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
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