Resultaten voor tag: Leadership
Smiling at Work is not Always a Good Thing!
Datum: | 24 juni 2019 |
Auteur: | Burcu Subasi |
Imagine that you are a flight attendant. The plane has a long delay. You are making explanations with a smile on your face for the cause of the delay to angry passengers. They want to learn more, they criticize the company you work for, they keep...
Supervising the supervisors: why and when external regulation matters
Datum: | 19 januari 2019 |
Auteur: | Julia Prömpeler |
Elon Musk, known as the CEO of Tesla & SpaceX and founder of PayPal, is one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Developments and visions regarding the future of electric cars and possible life on Mars frequently bring him to the news....
Critical thinking skills are more useful than IQ while making real life decisions
Datum: | 24 december 2018 |
Auteur: | Burcu Subasi |
Once I happened to meet a lady who graduated from the engineering department of one of the top universities in Turkey. In order to get accepted to this department in this university, you need to be very intelligent and be among the top performers of the...
Foreign experience sparks creative innovations of organizations, but more is not better
Datum: | 13 november 2018 |
Auteur: | Suqing Wu |
Many employees nowadays have experiences of working abroad, which is often viewed as providing a spark of creativity by organizations. Indeed, previous studies have suggested that people with multicultural experiences are more creative: they are more...
Work pressure sparks creativity, if conditions are right
Datum: | 06 november 2018 |
Auteur: | Yan Shao |
Workload pressure has been long regarded as a devil for killing creativity of employees. Many advices have thus been given on how to minimize workload pressure in order to maximize employee creativity. However, insights from our recent research suggest...
Employees can be both creative and productive, if conditions are right
Datum: | 10 januari 2017 |
Auteur: | Yan Shao |
How many ideal employees do you have? Those who are very good at thinking creatively, and at the same time are very efficient in production and following routines. We want employees to explore new knowledge and opportunities (exploration), and at the same...
Gene politics, or how our evolutionary past influences us in the modern workplace
Datum: | 04 november 2014 |
Auteur: | Elena Martinescu |
Humans are the most social of all species. For the greatest part of our existence we have lived in small groups of people in which every individual was related to the others by ties of kinship. People in these small communities of families knew each...