Category Archives for "Management"
Management research articles, posts and research briefings. This category provides briefings and resources aimed at helping to improve management activity and practice in organisations.
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The 5 different dissent strategies and how to deal with them. New research
It is estimated that somewhere between 50 and 70% of employees, will, at some point in their employment feel that the organisation has wronged, mistreated or let them down in some way. These issues are referred to as psychological contract breaches. This is where an employee feels that the organisation has failed to fulfil its […]
Read moreChange Management: Two Core Methods
A new study has highlighted two core methods of change management that help to facilitate organisational change whilst improving engagement, ownership and develops learning capability across the organisation. One of the earliest lessons taught to military officers usually is ‘First, appreciate the situation’. In the fog of war, a good understanding of the immediate […]
Read moreHow to recover from organisational decline: The 5 R’s of organisational recovery
The five R’s of organisational recovery Whilst I have a somewhat cynical attitude to models that neatly fit in an word based acronym or words all starting with exactly the same letter and 2×2 matrix, sometimes you find a genuinely useful model. In this case whilst I am not sure this is actually a step-by-step […]
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How to manage people with a boring job – 4 key strategies
How to manage people with a boring job How many times have you heard someone say “I hate my job”? When you look at it this is often down to the fact that they have one of the increasing numbers of boring jobs. In this article, which follows on from my last post How to manage […]
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How to manage people who do boring repetitive jobs
Managing people who have a boring job There has been a lot of previous research into how boredom impacts productivity in a wide range of settings. Virtually all the studies found, as you would probably expect, that when someone is bored they tend to make more mistakes and become increasingly inattentive to their work. As […]
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The Step-by-Step Guide to How Unethical Behaviour Develops
The Step-by-Step Guide to How Unethical Behaviour in the Workplace Develops In the the last of my three part series on how to predict unethical behaviour in the workplace develops. Part One – How to predict unethical behaviour Part Two – Moral disengagement: How it predicts unethical behaviour To wrap up this research briefing today I will look […]
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How to know that someone is going to act unethically
Moral disengagement: How to know if someone is going to act unethically In my last article How to predict unethical behaviour I looked at research that showed: The 2 primary predictors of unethical behaviour, and The 3 precursors of moral disengagement Today we are going to have a look at what the research says about the actual process […]
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How to predict unethical management behavior
How to predict unethical behaviour There are the steps people take before they engage in unethical behaviour and if you know the signs, you can predict it happening. It is better to see the warning signs and take action than wait for it to occur. This is the first of three posts in which I will review […]
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The counter-intuitive side of evidence-based practice
What is evidence-based decision-making? It may not be what you think? The counter-intuitive side of evidence-based practice. Opinion-based decisions When people make decisions about things on a daily basis, for example, what eat or what to wear, they usually do so based on their own opinions, likes, dislikes, personal taste, habits and a range of other […]
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Evidence Based Practice: From Theory to Reality
Evidence Based Practice The 2 things required to get it to work in an organisation The key requirement for deployment Evidence Based Practice has been around for over 30 years now, yet it has still to penetrate the culture of many organizations, even though it is used extensively in clinical and other professional arenas. A […]
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