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  • 07 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

frustration or sadness. Wolf differentiates those expressions from anger directed at others. In the paper Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion, published in the November 2016 issue of Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

the shop floor. The second concerned the ways in which firms used that data in meetings and how they set targets, from upper management to frontline workers. The third had to do with human resources, looking at how workers were hired,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

employees, while maintaining the safety and flexibility to weather an uncertain path ahead. Jeffrey Polzer (@jeffpolzer) is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2020
  • Article

Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha
By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers
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  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on peer pressure as a... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

practices. Rachel Layne: People may assume that algorithms are unbiased, but that’s not always the case. Where does bias creep in? Ayelet Israeli: There are several sources of algorithmic bias. One is due to historical human bias. When... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2012
  • Chapter

The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Politics at Work

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

as a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego, where she conducted a series of laboratory and field experiments with UCSD’s Uri Gneezy, a professor of economics and strategy, and Ayelet Gneezy, an associate professor of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

False Signaling and Personal Moral Failings: Two Distinct Pathways to Hypocrisy with Unequal Moral Weight

By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
Moral engagement is a key feature of human nature: we hold moral values, condemn those who violate those values, and attempt to adhere to them ourselves. Yet moral engagement can make us appear hypocritical if we fail to behave morally. When does moral engagement risk... View Details
Keywords: Moral Engagement; Hypocrite; Dishonesty; Moral Values; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Values and Beliefs
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  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

from CEOs to frontline workers commits preventable mistakes-for example, underestimating how long it will take to finish a project or focusing too much on information that supports their current view. It is extraordinarily difficult to rewire the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

time, many of the ideas from Chinese culture might not translate easily into a Western context," he says. "You have to find a way to generate a common platform to appeal to both sides." In a forthcoming article in the journal Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • May 2019
  • Supplement

Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (C)

By: Doug J. Chung
Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company’s products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for its excellent customer service and a fair “one-for-all” HR policy. Historically, the salespeople had been compensated... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden
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  • February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
  • Supplement

Jieliang Phone Home! (B)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
Keywords: Managing People; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Production; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Surveys; Decisions; Manufacturing Industry; China
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  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49266 Forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes The Highest Form of Intelligence: Sarcasm Increases Creativity Through Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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