Posts Tagged ‘evidence-based management’
Engaging Corporate Citizenship And Trust
The best evidence to date linking employee engagement to performance found that value congruence was a significant predictor of employee engagement. Value congruence is the extent to which an individual can behave at work consistent with their own self-image. If people are asked to behave at work in ways inconsistent with their best self-image, they [...]
Is There Such a Thing as Evidence-Based Management?
Denise Rousseau is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon. In this article, she explores the promise organization research offers for improved management practice and how, at present, it falls short. Is There Such a Thing as Evidence-Based Management – AMR
Well-Connected Leaders: Who Cares?
Networking enhances a leader’s ability to access information and resources through their upward and lateral connections. Networking also affects how leaders are perceived by others at work. Well-connected leaders can be seen by others as having higher status in the organization than those that don’t network well with their peers and bosses. How important is [...]
Leading Teams Of Individuals
Good team leaders understand that to be successful, they not only have to lead the group as a whole, but also have to provide leadership for each and every individual within the group. A study of 60 leaders and 203 team members just published in the Journal of Applied Psychology entitled “Exploring the Dual-Level Effects [...]
A Leader’s Style Can Be Helpful For Some But Exhausting For Others
For most employees, goal-focused behavior on the part of the leader is helpful. Goal-focused leaders provide specific goals and task structure to match those goals, make suggestions on how to achieve goals, and follow-up to ensure goals are achieved. New research published in the Journal of Applied Psychology provides more support for the idea that [...]
