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The Oxford Review Blog – Articles, posts and research briefings about Organisational Development, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Management, Leadership.
How to Make Leadership Training more Cross-Culturally Relevant
Developing leadership development and training programmes based on the principles from the cognitive process model may produce more effective results in mixed cultural contexts. As the world has become a lot smaller and more connected with the development of global digital communication and work tools, one of the problems many leaders and managers face is […]
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What is the Criteria for Assessing Ambidextrous Leadership?
In this podcast David talks with Jan Laser who is a HR Business Partner in an Organisation in Hamburg, Germany. Jan publishes academic papers whilst not being employed as an academic. In this podcast, Jan and David talk about publishing papers as a non-academic independant researcher and about his latest paper ‘Criteria to appraise top […]
Read moreA New Study on Fostering Social Informal Learning in Organisations
Knowledge is one of the most important resources possessed by organisations. This is largely because it is one of the primary factors to distinguish one business from another, and it provides the basis of any business’s competitive advantage. Therefore, facilitating learning and the development of knowledge within organisations is crucial. Despite this fact, many organisations […]
Read moreHow Leader Humour Helps to Develop Employee Creativity
Leader humour is one of the primary leadership behaviours and impacts a wide range of outcomes, including performance, as well as higher employee job satisfaction, stress reduction and higher employee engagement Employee creativity Employee creativity is often the foundation of organisational innovation, which itself is the basis of a business’s competitive advantage. Consequently, determining which […]
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How New Leaders Emerge and Form Their Identity
In order to grow and maintain their performance organisations need to produce new leaders on a fairly consistent basis. As less experienced team members step into key roles and form their identities as leaders, they are essentially going through a process of self-discovery. Leadership identity develops as individuals step into the leadership role, and that […]
Read moreUsing Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Coaching – A new study
Artificial intelligence is gaining ground and offering new possibilities for coaching. Whilst many coaches are not using AI yet its use is gaining traction and it may be wise for coaches to understand how they can use it. Coaching Coaching can be an effective practice that many organisations include in employee professional development programmes to […]
Read moreThe Complexities of Social Learning and Culture Change
An influential theme that has emerged in organisational practice over the last few years is the idea of culture change. At one level, the idea seems both logical and fairly simple. The culture of an organisation underpins many of the behaviours, routines, thinking and outcomes that occur in an organisation. If those behaviours, attitudes, values […]
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Conspiracy Theories: Research On Why People Believe Them
Over the past few years, the prevalence of conspiracy theories has spun out of control thanks to the ease of sharing false information through social media and efforts from several quarters to promote anti-intellectualism. Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy theories are speculation and explanatory beliefs of events or systems whereby multiple actors are assumed to secretly conspire […]
Read moreA Roadmap for Facilitating Successful Digital Transformation
Anything that gives an organisation the advantage when it comes to digital transformation id to be welcomes. In this, the last episode in the digital transformation series of podcasts, David and Melanie unpack some recent research looking at what the evidence says about successful digital transformation. Listen to “A Roadmap for Facilitating Successful Digital Transformation […]
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A New Study On Passion And Emotion Regulation Strategies On Well-Being And Ill-Being
Training employees in the use of healthy emotion regulation strategies like cognitive reappraisal and promoting harmonious passions can have a significant positive impact on their mental health and reduce ill-being symptoms like depression that impact overall job performance. How we as employees feel (level of mental health, feelings of passion and interest, for example) impacts […]
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