Things are changing quickly in lower management, but at the very top there remains a hard-to-attack barrier.
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The hard nuts to crack are getting women into chief executive positions and getting them paid as much.
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Research shows that job interviews are a seriously flawed way of finding out how a potential employee might perform in the future.
Specify what you want, and that might be all you’ll get, whereas if you are vague…
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Counterintuitively, vague incentives are often stronger than clear ones.
South African students protest outside Parliament in support of students convicted over the #FeesMustFall protests.
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Certain criteria are needed to lead a university but additional knowledge is also useful.
About 9,200 Americans report sexual harassment at work every year.
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Two-thirds of people who report workplace sexual harassment say they lost their jobs or are retaliated against in other ways. Most never receive any money.
Quantum physics can offer astonishing insights into the different modalities of innovation in large companies and startups.
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The study of innovation in large companies and start-ups would benefit from being inspired by physics, which mobilizes different sets of laws for large masses and particles.
Conflict resolution theory suggests we may be less likely to move toward a competing position if we have taken the time to learn about each other in a genuine way.
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Conflict in the classroom may not look or sound like an argument. It might look like disengagement if students don’t feel seen and heard.
Relying on a change in the top job to change the organisation is a recipe for future disappointment.
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There’s symbolic power in heads rolling when an organisations does wrong. But cultural change is more complicated than that.
VW was hit with more than $15 billion in penalties in the United States.
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How could a company like Volkswagen knowingly violate US air-pollution standards despite the senseless risks to which it was exposing its reputation? The case method can provide an answer.
It takes all sorts: workplaces can harness as strengths the differences that usually disadvantage people with autism.
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Wanting to change a person’s autistic behaviours is like attempting to correct left-handedness or sexual preference. The modern workplace should see strength in difference.
Is a cassette player an “ordinary object” or a “mystery”? It depends on whom you ask, and ethnography can help you ask the right questions.
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Big data is all the rage in management circles and beyond, yet little is said about the understanding needed with such voluminous data. An important lesson can be learned from ethnographic research.
Fraud has organizational consequences.
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Adopting best practices like making it easier for staffers to blow the whistle when they observe wrongdoing can help.
Mid-career workers have solid business skills valuable to the tech industry.
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Tech companies that have been wary to hire anyone over 30 are missing out on skilled workers.
Politics are creating divides in the office.
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The midterm elections have put America’s political divide front and center, increasingly invading the work space and stressing out employees.
Somebody say something.
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Quietly fighting from within is just one way for staffers to rein in an out-of-control leader.
A night at the slots.
A gaming industry expert explains how casinos’ ability to hide the price of a slot spin ensures a reliable stream of revenue from even the savviest of gamblers.
Leadership is replacing concepts of management in universities.
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Stress and anxiety levels among academics are on the rise, and some of the blame lies with ideologies that expect scholars to be leaders.
Violent protests over the poor delivery of basic municipal services occur frequently in South Africa.
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South Africa’s dysfuctional municipalities are characterised by very poor, or no delivery, of basic services such as refuse collection.
Recently Telstra, the big four banks, and the ABC have used technology to replace workers.
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Management trumps technology in making companies productive, but that doesn’t mean firms can be complacent when it comes to keeping up with change.
Sergio Marchionne was Fiat chief for 14 years.
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Marchionne set new leadership standards as CEO of the Fiat family business. His successor, Mike Manley, must build on his legacy.