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Discriminerende grappen verbieden werkt averechts

Discriminerende grappen verbieden werkt averechts

Datum:23 november 2020
Auteur:Laetitia Mulder

Stelt u zich voor: u zit in een team waarin ook een collega zit met een Chinese afkomst. Tijdens een online vergadering komt het gesprek op het COVID-19 virus. Eén van je collega’s zegt: “Maak je geen zorgen, het virus zal niet lang standhouden. “Made in...

Women as successful crisis managers, will it impact their numbers after COVID?

Women as successful crisis managers, will it impact their numbers after COVID?

Datum:21 oktober 2020
Auteur:Kyra van Hinsberg

The past few weeks, the great successes of female leaders during the corona pandemic have widely been commented on. With female-led countries suffering six times as few confirmed COVID-19 deaths compared to male-led countries [1], one wonders why female...

Why do we not listen to outside wisdom and evidence? - The “Not-Invented-Here” syndrome

Why do we not listen to outside wisdom and evidence? - The “Not-Invented-Here” syndrome

Datum:12 oktober 2020
Auteur:Cheng Chen

Information is one of the most important resources needed by organizational teams to survive in the competitive business world. Especially, external information or knowledge which is derived from the outside of the team can benefit team performance and...

Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility in Times of Crisis

Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility in Times of Crisis

Datum:29 september 2020
Auteur:Peer Stiegert

Recently, the Netherlands-based travel agency Booking.com announced that it will lay-off around 25% of their global workforce due to the ongoing Corona crisis - despite having secured a $4 billion loan in bonds from investors to alleviate the crisis’...

Sharing knowledge in an auditor network relates to higher quality and compensation

Sharing knowledge in an auditor network relates to higher quality and compensation

Datum:23 september 2020
Auteur:James Zhang

Recent Widecard scandal (wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard_scandal) has drawn attention to audit deficiency again, both from media (such as Financial Times and Wall Street Journal) and audit regulators. While it is important to maintain independence from...

Leiders zijn onmisbaar tijdens een crisis, maar de valkuil is alles te willen controleren

Leiders zijn onmisbaar tijdens een crisis, maar de valkuil is alles te willen controleren

Datum:15 september 2020
Auteur:Wout de Vries

Leiders staan midden in de aandacht tijdens deze coronacrisis. Mensen willen duidelijkheid over hoe het nu verder moet, en het is aan leiders om deze duidelijkheid te verschaffen. Op het (voorlopige) hoogtepunt van de coronacrisis volgde bijna de helft van...

Meer met minder? Hoe teams kunnen blijven presteren tijdens personele bezuinigingen

Meer met minder? Hoe teams kunnen blijven presteren tijdens personele bezuinigingen

Datum:01 september 2020
Auteur:Thom de Vries

Personele bezuinigingen zijn helaas aan de orde van de dag. Onlangs maakte de Nederlandse Spoorwegen bekend 1,4 miljard EURO te moeten besparen waardoor mogelijk 2300 banen verloren gaan, terwijl Ryanair al eerder bekendmaakte 3.000 van de ongeveer 16.000...

The craft of balancing control and vulnerability

Resilience under COVID-19: dare to craft empathic directiveness

Datum:30 juni 2020
Auteur:Nevena Ivanovic

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders continue to face challenges in managing the effects of the health crisis and keeping their organization under control. Meanwhile, for most of the employees, the new working arrangements have already become the new normal...

Democracy: where governance of firms may be heading

Democracy: where governance of firms may be heading

Datum:23 juni 2020
Auteur:Fabian Ahrens

The corona crisis with its restrictions to our everyday lives is not over yet. Not just our social lives were hit hard, businesses and governments around the globe also operate in crisis mode to survive – and with them many of our jobs are in danger. Just...

Covid-19: Challenges of motivating compliance with large-scale behavioral change

Covid-19: Challenges of motivating compliance with large-scale behavioral change

Datum:16 juni 2020
Auteur:Susanne Täuber

A recent study suggests that lockdowns in Europe have saved more than three million lives, illustrating the relevance of compliance with behavioral change measures such as social distancing. But especially in the beginning of the pandemic, violations of...