March 2019

Getting people to take responsibility for their own learning & use CoPs

Podcast – Getting people to take responsibility for their own learning & use CoPs One of the things that I often bang on about in organisations is the development of communities of practice or COPSas a tool for getting people to take responsibility for their own learning and developing creativity and innovation. Communities of practice […]

#autonomy #communities of practice #Getting people to take responsibility for their own learning #learning #responsibility

in Blog , Leadership by David Wilkinson
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There are too many leadership concepts… but which ones are redundant?

The sheer number of leadership concepts is creating confusion and just trying to keep up with new notions of leadership is a full time job. As a result there is a lot of confusion and overlap between leadership concepts, the variety of different styles, traits, behaviours and other ideas that proliferate in the leadership literature. Explosion […]

#construct redundancy #Leadership #leadership behaviours #leadership concepts

Is the use of strengths at work as powerful as many people think?

Is the use of strengths at work as powerful as we might think? What are the factors that matter? Keywords: Character, signature strengths, well-being, organisational behaviour, trait affect, job satisfaction, job strain Overview Personal qualities Character strengths Transcript Overview Does focussing on individuals strengths at work, work? A new wide ranging study looking whether […]

#Character #job satisfaction #job strain #organisational behaviour #signature strengths #strengths #trait affect #well-being

in Blog , Oxford Review by David Wilkinson

Research Briefings in this month’s Oxford Review

In this month’s Oxford Review Can Action Learning be used to improve knowledge, skills and confidence in communications? Characteristics of a successful sales person: Valid measurements of performance Emotions and their role in the shaping of self-identity Evaluating industry 4.0 organisational readiness Group identity and decision-making: information cascades and decision bias How to deal with […]

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Does your organisation’s reputation make any practical difference?

In this podcast David provides a research briefing on some new research looking at the effects of corporate reputation on the people who work inside the organisation and the organisation’s performance in the market and has made some interesting finding. #research #reputation #orgdev #corporatereputation #oxfordreview Transcript An interesting study has just been […]

#organisational performance #Organisational reputation #reputation

in Blog , Human Resources , Research by David Wilkinson
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Flexible working arrangements have different impacts in different countries

As more and more companies and organisation across the world embrace flexible working arrangements for their employees new research has found that the benefits of such practices is not the same in every culture and that organisations would be wise to think carefully about just taking on flexible working. (This research briefing was sent to […]

#absenteeism #flexible working #flexible working arrangements #national culture #organisational outcomes #turnover