Development and Learning in Organizations
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Inclusive organizations: developmental reciprocity through authentic leader-employee relationships
Anthony TarrantThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how managers develop employees with disabilities, to investigate how managerial decision-making accomplished in an inclusive…
Building a sense of justice and belonging: Commitment to family firms from non-family employees
Employee commitment increases when they perceive their company acts fairly towards them. Family-owned firms can address this important issue and increase perceptions of…
Enhancing job satisfaction and commitment: How organizational culture and HR practices can help
Firm performance can be optimized when job satisfaction and organizational commitment among employees is high. Companies can help increase levels by developing a…
Learning to effectively manage your emotions: the impact of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in caring roles
Smarty P. Mukundan, Dhanya M.Psychological constructs like emotional labor, emotional intelligence etc. are gaining importance now to understand employee outcomes such as job satisfaction in a health…
Self-efficacy: A key mediator between transformational leadership and volunteers’ performance?
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and volunteers' performance and the role of self-efficacy as a mediator in…
The meaning of work for Italian school principals
Firstly, to verify whether and how school principals' meaning of work is associated with personal, organizational and relational aspects of work. Secondly, to verify…
The influence of organizational commitment on turnover intention: Employee perceptions of training make a difference
The growing challenge to effectively address turnover intention is helped when organizational commitment is strong. Company leaders can increase commitment levels by a…
Towards effective talent management and employer branding: The importance of employee perception of work-life balance
Concerns about unsatisfactory work-life balance is negatively affecting turnover in many firms. Family-friendly HRM practices that address employee needs can help…
Perceived instructional requirements of hard skills trainers and soft skills trainers
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether hard-skills trainers and soft-skills trainers have different perspectives regarding the instructional skills and…
It is not a case of “one size fits all”: the need for customized HRM practices for employee engagement
Geetha Jose, Nimmi P. M., Sebastian Rupert MampillyThis study seeks to evaluate the role of HRM practices in enhancing Employee Engagement, particularly at varying levels of perceived psychological safety.
Exploring push and pull factors for talent development and retention: implications for practice
Justine Mutanga, Godwin Kaisara, Khulekani Yakobi, Sulaiman Olusegun AtikuThis study explores some of the key push and pull factors to consider in talent development and retention of competent employees by businesses operating in Namibia.
Outpacing the pandemic?: Decision speed of COVID-19 task forces
The purpose of the study is to determine which of individual competencies, team collaboration and clarity of roles and tasks assigned predict the decision speed of such…
Predicting human resource competencies
The purpose of the research is to conceptually define and empirically investigate the density of work experience along with individual characteristics [cognitive ability…
Integration of exploitative and exploratory learning: Bureaucracy as a surprise enabler
Extensive collaboration has become critical as increasing complexity of products and processes require firms to access specialized knowledge from diverse sources. Such…
Improving project-to-organization learning: A suggested framework
Project-based learning is an effective means for companies to capture, retain and use knowledge. To exploit both explicit and tacit knowledge, firms can combine knowledge…
Managerial coaching: where are we now and where should we go in the future?
Charles Carvalho, Fallan Kirby Carvalho, Sheldon CarvalhoIn this paper, we provide a brief understanding of the field of managerial coaching, specifically, offering insights on what has been studied and ideas on where the field…
Commitment to change
The purpose of the study was to develop and validate an integrative measure of commitment to change using a mixed-methods approach. Changes in employees' commitment to…
Human resource management and innovation in SMEs
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between HRM and innovation in SMEs through gift/counter-gift exchanges.
Facilitating organizational change: Political skill as a key enabler
Resistance to proposed change is a typical reaction in most firms. Change agents can address this prevailing attitude by developing and utilizing different aspects of…
How individual employees might react to organizational change likely influential factors
Employee response to organizational change impacts on its overall effectiveness. Firms can develop greater understanding by identifying various individual and…
Industry 4.0 disruption: assessing the need for adaptive capability
Uma Shankar RangaswamyConsidering the advent of Industry 4.0, organizations need to undergo digital transformation to survive disruptions owing to rapid technological changes. Accordingly…
Do perceptions of organizational politics influence turnover intentions? Organizational cynicism as a potential mediator
Sabia Singh, Gurpreet RandhawaThe purpose of this study is to examine the impact of perceptions of organizational politics on turnover intentions with a focus on the role of organizational cynicism as…
Technological illiteracy in an increasingly technological world: methods to help employees create with rather than simply consume technology
Daniel Pfaltzgraf, Gary S. InschThis paper discusses the technology gap in today’s newer hires where younger employees are often believed to be more technologically astute than they really are. Younger…
Millennial turnover intentions: how can B-schools make a difference?
Pragnya Acharya, Joaquin Garcia-Tapial, Lalatendu Kesari JenaThe article intends to instigate a new thought process for management institutions to reshape their curriculum and design their teaching around mitigating the rising…
Empowering employees to increase creativity: The positive influence of authentic leadership
Businesses today must constantly innovate in order to remain competitive. Employee creativity is critical to such aims and can be enhanced when they are trusted, empowered…
An ideal climate for knowledge-sharing and organizational learning: Transformational leadership holds the key
In order to innovate effectively, firms must develop a learning culture. Transformational leadership can play a critical role in building an organizational climate which…
More responsible talent management: Key principles to adopt
Effective management of talent can positively impact on firm performance. A principled approach that included more accurate definition and identification of talent along…
Swift and efficient: Using artificial intelligence to enhance the talent acquisition process
Novel technologies like artificial intelligence have considerable potential to enhance the speed and efficiency of human resource functions like talent acquisition…
State of play: Learning and organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean
One of the emerging factors in society in the late 2010s has been the development of – and reaction to – the concept of “fake news”. News that is propagated around the…
Project managers’ roles
Jan Terje Karlsen, Parinaz Farid, Tim TorvatnThe purpose of the research was to investigate which management roles were adopted in this merger process and to look at project management skills and competencies and how…
Building organizational resilience through human capital management strategy
Stephanie DouglasThis paper examines the role of human capital management strategy in shaping organizational resilience. Resilient organizations thrive in uncertain and adverse conditions…
Using manageable solutions to manage risk: The influence of competence and experience
Taking risks can help employees to generate and enhance competencies that will increase future risk management effectiveness. In this regard, engaging in controlled risk…
Finding effective ways to address work-family conflict: The critical role of supervisor support
An unhealthy work-life balance is a major cause of turnover intentions among the workforce. Firms can effectively address the issue by ensuring that supervisor support is…
Making diversity a workplace asset: Focus on inclusion and employee well-being
Diversity in the workplace has scope to function as a double-edged sword. Firms must recognize different forms of diversity and their scope to vary in how they shape…
Smooth power: identifying high-level leadership skills promoting organizational adaptability
Alicia Ohlsson, Aida Alvinius, Gerry LarssonThe purpose of this research is to gain deeper understanding of the leadership skills that are important to enhance adaptability in a hierarchical organization together…
What is behind grit? Developing stamina for your organization
Juan Manuel Menéndez BlancoThis paper offers a practical conceptualization and understanding of grit, exploring what grit adds to the organizations and how to develop it at an individual and…
Understanding learning spillover
Svenja Richter, Simone Kauffeld, Timo KortschThe study explored whether and how satisfaction with and the perceived utility of the formal training positively influenced subsequent informal learning and the ways in…
A different outlook on othering
Joan F. MarquesTo encourage those who feel victimized by the tendency of “othering” or being part of an “outgroup” in any organization, in perceiving this reality from a more constructive angle.
Metaphorical creativity: an aspect of everyday creativity cleans-up a work-based problem
Frederik Hertel, Michelle WicmandyAccording to Mumford et al. (2018), case studies illustrating creative-problem solving at work is lacking. To help fill this gap, this study aims to show how metaphorical…
Multiple jobholders and workplace learning
Anu JärvensivuThe purpose of this research is to explore the career development and workplace learning of Finnish multiple jobholders who are university graduates.
Regulatory focus and learning. How the pursuit of promotion and prevention-focus goals influence informal learning in the workplace
Jessica E. FedermanThe purpose of the study is to understand how regulatory focus influences informal learning behaviors.
Bridging the industry-education skills gap for human resource development
Nana Arthur-MensahThe purpose of the study was to describe one advanced engineering company's efforts to build a channel of skilled workforce by developing an apprenticeship program with…
Managers’ experiences as recipients: impact on organizational change
The purpose of this study is to explore how managers’ prior experiences as recipients of change influence the organizational changes they then go on to make in their…
Turnover intention: management behaviors to help retain talented employees
Paul Lyons, Randall BanduraThe purpose of this viewpoint is to examine employee turnover intention to include how it manifests itself, aspects of the work environment or perceptions that tend to…
How authentic leaders can get employees to go beyond the call of duty fair treatment to heighten sense of belongingness holds the key
Company performance can benefit substantially when employees are willing to engage in extra-role behaviors. This outcome becomes likelier when authentic leadership is…
A fit for purpose pedagogy: Online learning designing and teaching
Jay Andrew CohenAs online learning becomes more ubiquitous and particularly in consideration of the current need to move classroom based teaching online given Covid-19, it seems opportune…
Co-creating value for customers: A collaborative approach to organizational learning helps
Strong emphasis on learning can help organizations more closely engage with customers to co-create value for them. Collaboration is vital and leadership plays an important…
Increasing employee engagement and discretionary effort: The impact of leadership factors and national culture
Additional efforts from engaged employees can positively impact on overall performance of the company. Different leadership practices have scope to motivate employees to…
The positive side of peer pressure: employees as “enforcers” of positive cultural values
Juliana LillyThis paper discusses how peer pressure works and how to use it in a positive way to encourage employees to behave in ways that are beneficial to the organization.
An adaptive approach to address business challenges: Some key characteristics of flexible leadership
Growing uncertainty in the business environment demands the ability of firms to constantly adapt in order to provide effective solutions. A flexible approach to leadership…
Let natural learning arise!: optimizing organizational learning through a customized leadership development program
Robin RobertsThis paper examined a tiered leadership development program (LDP) designed to optimize natural organizational learning.
Helping employees reach a transcendent state: The role of mindfulness and meaningful work
Pressures and uncertainties within today’s work environment leaves many people experiencing higher levels of anxiety and stress. The negative impact on motivation can be…
Self – efficacy as a resource
This study has two purposes. Firstly, it aims to investigate whether self-efficacy constitutes one of the mechanisms by which transformational leadership impacts on…
“Reinventing the wheel, over and over again”. organizational learning, memory and forgetting in doing diversity work
Marieke van den BrinkThe purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge of organizational change towards diversity by bringing together concepts from organizational learning and diversity studies.
Towards increased understanding of organizational learning: The role of fieldwork in providing greater depth
Current approaches to organizational learning are limited in the insight they provide. Greater understanding is attainable through more engagement in fieldwork and an…
Overcoming inter-generational conflicts: Focus on lean production to develop a learning organization
This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.
A systems model of organizational change
The purpose of this study is to develop a meta-model for organisational change based on a literature review across organisational theories, specific theories about…
Enhancing the impact of business coaching: Critical factors to focus on
Business coaching can generate positive results in various key areas for firms involved. By focusing on factors identified as having scope to most impact on overall…
Awakening the leadership anatomy in times of crisis
Roland K. YeoThis paper explores the concept of leadership anatomy in a health crisis like Covid-19 as it relates our body parts to sensory connections that affect our response to uncertainty.
How organizational learning increases organizational resilience: Build multi-stakeholder networks to strengthen the effect
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
The importance of authentic leadership: How trigger events and crucibles aid their development
Firm performance can be significantly enhanced when its leaders are authentic. A focus on trigger events and leadership crucibles can help such leaders to learn from past…
Towards more comprehensive executive coaching: Growing need for a spiritual component
Belief is growing that executive coaching can be enriched by the inclusion of spiritual development. Overall effectiveness of any initiative demands awareness of potential…
Are your employees getting their daily dose of DOSE? – A neuroscience perspective to enhance employee engagement
Swaminathan Mani, Mridula MishraTo provide an alternative, neuroscience perspective to enhance employee engagement in companies.
"Workplace learning in the IT sector: building a case for investment”
Priyanka Dave, Anamika Sinha, Biju VarkkeyThe paper attempts to establish cause and effect between an individual's motivation to learn, workplace learning and the in-role job performance of IT professionals
Extrinsic motivation: Vietnamese laborers in Taiwan
The purpose of the study is to test four hypotheses regarding correlations between extrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, employer trust and workplace learning which were…
Improving decision-making effectiveness in crisis situations: developing intuitive expertise at the workplace
Justin OkoliThis review examines the role of intuition as a cognitive tool to better manage complex crises. The paper draws on a case study in the aviation industry, the Hudson river…
Could self-centrism rust the glitter of meaningful work? Exploring the darker sides of the construct
Subhra Pattnaik, Lalatendu Kesari JenaThe paper explores if individuals experiencing deeply meaningful work turn self-centric and therein they negatively affect people around them. It also discusses ways to…
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