Employee Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that keep students View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

lever you have for leading organizations, arguably the more vocal one. Whatever strategy has not made clear to your extended team, culture will unapologetically fill the void. Culture establishes the rules of engagement after leadership... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

how individuals think about speaking up at work, we first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly misguided neuroscience and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2020
News

Karmic Kickstart

employees and from a variety of outside parties. We have, of necessity, been continuously involved at all levels, from setting and implementing strategy for the college and its place in Bhutan to negotiating contracts, hiring, updating IT... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important question raised by this marker... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

a family business and work within any of these structures. Course focuses on interpersonal dynamics of employees - both family and non-family professionals. All three Family organizations, the Family, the Operating Company, and the Family... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

hierarchy, examining motivation challenges from frontline worker engagement to executive compensation, providing students with a comprehensive toolkit applicable across different organizational roles and at any career stage. Educational... View Details

15 Jan 2020
News

The Business of Access

expenses. It’s about the things that would make their work better and easier, which are resources that private-sector employees take for granted.” In January 2019, Lisle became CEO of Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2020
News

Staying the Course

workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home model. For Woolley-Wilson, keeping... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

pre-selected alternative. The intervention increases plan enrollment rates by 10 to 20 percentage points. We find that a similar intervention can be used to increase contribution rates among employees who are already participating in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

others in its industry increase a firm's propensity to engage in practices consistent with the aims of the related social movement. Similarly, in the realm of public politics, threats of state regulations targeted at a firm's industry as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

viticulture, and forestry industries. Although it would be a jarring lifestyle change, Gower says he had the full support of his wife and their three grown children to take the leap. In fact, Sally is used to his adventurous streak. The couple were View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Feb 2020
News

Teachable Moments

meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

blame someone.” When our brains are preoccupied, he continues, we engage in counterproductive behavior. “We demonize, we retreat from the problem itself and from others who might provide counsel, and then we redouble those efforts. We do... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

of Leadership and Management; Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna ; and Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Speaking Up Recognizing problems in the workplace is commonplace. Speaking up about those problems is less so. Why? Because View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

10 Mar 2021
News

Action Plan: Brewing Awareness

rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower... View Details