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04 May 2021
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Workplace Diversity: Managers Must Build a Culture of Belonging

November 2008 (Revised September 2014)
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Differences at Work: The Leadership Challenge

This note reviews research findings on the leadership challenges of diversity, including the social psychology of similarity and difference, the value of multiple perspectives to problem-solving, the relationship between diversity and firm performance, and management... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Behavior; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Diversity

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20 Jul 2015
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Why Lonely People Stay Lonely

Aurora Turek

Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details

March 2016
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Where in the World are the Workers? Cultural Underrepresentation in I-O Research

By: Christopher G. Myers

Few would dispute that the nature of work, and the workers who perform it, has evolved considerably in the 70 years since the founding of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) as the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Division 14,... View Details

Keywords: Global Organizations; Research; Industrial Organization; Organizations; Globalization

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July 22, 2024
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Why People Resist Retirement

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Research suggests making the decision to retire means grappling with three psychological issues. First, identity issues can loom large for any deeply engaged professional. Even a small step away from a career can make a person wonder who they are without it. Second,... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Identity; Leadership; Satisfaction; Relationships; Age

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Sujin has developed and led courses on Leadership and Organizational Behavior as an invited lecturer in the International Spark Program (Republic of Georgia) and Dubrovnik International University (Croatia). She has also served as a Teaching Fellow for the Social... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Teams; Decision Making; Negotiation

27 Nov 2018
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This misunderstood trait could transform make you a better boss

24 Jul 2019
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Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

here’s one that David Laibson and John List use in a recent article: “Behavioral economics uses variants of traditional economic assumptions (often with a psychological motivation) to explain and predict behavior, and to provide policy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2017
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The Structured World and the Self

May 1999
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Note on Behavioral Pricing

By: John T. Gourville

The note introduces the behavioral or psychological aspects of consumer price acceptance. Begins by reviewing the traditional economic approach to product pricing and consumer price acceptance--namely, that consumers should be willing to purchase anytime a product's... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Decisions; Fairness; Price; Marketing Strategy; Behavior; Perspective; Public Opinion

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Megan is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in identity and the relationship between people's work- and non-work lives, and is currently conducting a longitudinal qualitative study of people's experiences as they... View Details

05 Oct 2017
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How to Promote Home Delivery of Prescription Drugs? Give Employees a 'Nudge'

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Health

May 2022
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Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz

Field studies in social psychology tend to focus on validating existing insights. In addition to learning from the laboratory and bringing those insights to the field—which researchers currently favour—we should also conduct field studies that aim to learn in the field... View Details

Keywords: Field Studies; Social Psychology; Learning

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14 Mar 2017
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Cracking a Joke At Work Can Have a Surprising Payoff

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By: Francesca Gino

I study the psychology behind the decisions we make, to learn how we can thrive at work and better engage with one another. For more details, click here View Details

2016
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Dishonesty Explained: What Leads Moral People To Act Immorally

By: F. Gino and D. Ariely

The last two decades have witnessed what seems to be an increasing number of cases of dishonesty, from corporate corruption and employee misconduct to questionable behaviors during the financial crisis and individual acts of unethical behavior in many spheres of... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Organizations; Attitudes; Financial Crisis

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