Chief executive officers (CEOs) should have a different leadership style from an organization's culture in order to improve a firm's performance, according to researchers at Georgia State University, Arizona State University, ...
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Jul 13, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “There’s no crying in baseball!” So said Jimmy Dugan, the manager portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie “A League of Their Own.” Not so fast, says Vince Waldron, an Arizona State University professor ...
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Nov 30, 2009
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Quotas probably won't get more women into the boardroom in places like the U.S. and Canada.
Economics & Business
Jul 17, 2014
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In 1928 Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, while studying the staphylococcus bacteria, noticed mold on his petri dishes inhibited its growth. He experimented, leading to the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic.
Economics & Business
Apr 26, 2022
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Before he became an expert on corporate leadership, Charles O'Reilly spent five years in the U.S. Army. There he witnessed the stark divide between good and bad leaders and realized how much influence they had on the people ...
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Aug 7, 2023
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A memo to employers: Just because your workers live alone doesn't mean they don't have lives beyond the office.
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Feb 21, 2013
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American workplaces talk a lot about diversity these days. In fact, you'd have a hard time finding a company that says it doesn't value the principle. But despite this—and despite the multibillion-dollar diversity industry—Black ...
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Oct 18, 2023
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A new paper in the European Sociological Review indicates that women's and men's earnings are not affected by the share of female managers in an organization, nor by the sex of workers' individual managers.
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2019
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We live in tumultuous times which can create an added layer of uncertainty for employees who need to build relationships with students, patients or clients. Providing calm, confident and warm emotional labor can be difficult ...
Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2022
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Earlier this year, France passed a labor reform law that banned checking emails on weekends. New research—to be presented next week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management—suggests other countries might do ...
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2016
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