Posts Tagged ‘Simmons’
The Role of Research
Over the weekend, I’ve found myself struggling to reconcile two recent comments in my head. Last week, Bob Sutton wrote on his blog: “most management books are based on anecdotes, the biased recollections of some famous executives, or on research that is presented as rigorous (but is not…Good to Great is a perfect example).” In [...]
shorts.005 | Cycle of Success Spiral
Awhile ago I wrote an article entitled Engagement: There is Something Wrong with This Picture. I looked at a study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and discussed some of the problems I have with the conclusions the article suggests about engagement. But I love the conclusion the study suggests about the link between [...]
shorts.004 | Negative Effects of Bad Politics at Work
A recent article in the Academy of Management Journal provides continued strong support for something I have said a lot here about the relationship between job satisfaction, commitment and employee performance, and adds to that by showing how perceptions of organizational politics negatively affects the mix. The article is a well designed research study that conducted a meta-analysis [...]
April Leadership Development Carnival
The April Leadership Development Carnival went live last night. A special thanks goes out to Sharlyn Lauby at the HR Bartender for organizing and hosting this month’s carnival. This month, two posts from LeaderLab contributors are freatured. David Burkus discusses the potentially faulty assumptions of Jack Welch’s favored “rank and yank” method in his post The [...]
shorts.003 | Employee Engagement and Performance
I’m a big fan of the concept of employee engagement but I’ve also been very skeptical of how both big consultants and my own academic community have treated it so far. We’ve been told to believe that the link between engagement and profitability is a slam dunk, but because of poor research design, this very difficult cause-effect link [...]
