Category Archives for "Special research reports"
Keywords: Culture change, Organisational change, Organisational performance, Cultural perpetuation Many leaders, managers, human resources and organisational development practitioners do not grasp the complexity of culture change. There is currently a wave of ‘culture change’ initiatives on going in organisations around the world that, whilst founded on great intentions, are more than a little sparse on much […]
Read moreKeywords: unlearning, unlearn, learning, knowledge, forgetting, psychological unlearning, organisational unlearning There has been a fairly constant and consistent interest over the past few years in the ideas of unlearning, to unlearn and how to unlearn in both the popular and research literature. The idea of unlearning has firmly entered the organisational development rhetoric as well as that […]
Read moreSpecial report: Is there really any difference between the generations at work? What the research actually says A lot has been written recently about the various generations at work and their attributes, for example generation X, generation Y and generation Z. Indeed, there have been a number of published papers on these very topics […]
Read moreA number of new (2018) wide-ranging studies of executive coaching have just been published. These include the first systematic review of executive coaching, which focuses on all the previous published research about executive coaching aims, methods and outcomes that has been published to date. The second research paper incorporated into this special report is a […]
Read moreKeywords: leader, leadership, leadership development, individual differences, leadership capacities The study, an integrative review of research by a team of researchers has looked at all of the studies over the last 20 years to see what patterns and threads come out of the research on individual differences between leaders. Due to its nature, this is […]
Read moreThis report is based on a detailed review of previous studies in the field and draws together the learning about how to deal with cultures once they have gone bad and are either dysfunctional or high functioning deviant cultures. Anyone interested in organisational culture and transformation / change will find this report most interesting. […]
Read moreMany people in organisations talk about developing high-performance teams and organisations strive to understand how to develop them. In this Oxford Review special report, we have a look at what the research evidence actually says about the characteristics of high-performance teams. Most of us work in teams at some point The importance of teams to […]
Read moreProbably one of the most frequent statistics quoted in the organisational change literature and by consultants is that about 70% of change initiatives fail or fail to meet their intended objectives. Coincidently and curiously the project management literature is peppered with exactly the same reported rate of project failure. But is it true? Rather than […]
Read moreManagers and leaders are increasingly becoming aware that their success and the competitive value and advantages of their organisations is largely dependent on and intimately connected to the unique knowledge that exists within their organisation. The ability to be able to effectively create, store, disseminate, transfer and apply the unique knowledge that exists in any […]
Read moreAs more and more organisations turn to universities to help them both with organisational issues and product/service innovation issues, the number of failed relationships continues to grow as well. Firm-university partnerships offer many significant benefits including: Increasing innovation and spin-offs Increasing evidence-based practice capability Enhanced knowledge transfer and generation Higher levels of organisational ambidexterity, flexibility […]
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