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Purpose
Modern business environments present tremendous uncertainties, risks, novelties, and opportunities. Organizational teams must identify emerging cues before they grow into full-blown issues, to adapt effectively to fast-changing environments. Team mindfulness is a socio-cognitive capability that enhances the ability to detect cues and creates richer awareness of the context. This paper proposes a conceptual model highlighting that team mindfulness directly strengthens the team’s adaptive capabilities and also enhances the absorptive capacity to learn from external sources, thereby further promoting readiness toward change and transformation.
Design/methodology/approach
This conceptual paper draws from mindfulness theory and team adaptive performance theory to explore how team mindfulness influences the four dimensions of absorptive capacity related to knowledge acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and utilization, which together determine how effectively teams adapt to novelty.
Findings
This paper presents a conceptual model to show that mindfulness directly affects team learning and adaptive capabilities that are specifically related to acquiring and utilizing knowledge from sources outside the team. It suggests several measures and managerial initiatives promoting mindfulness and absorptive capacity in teams.
Originality/value
Integrating research on team mindfulness, absorptive capacity, and adaptive performance, this paper provides a starting point for deeper investigations into the mechanisms through which team mindfulness may enable teams to adapt effectively to novelty and uncertainty. Further, it calls attention to the systematic development of mindfulness in organizational teams.
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Tim Calkins, Kara Palamountain, Aniruddha Chatterjee, Robert Frantz, Elizabeth Hart, Sean Mathewson and Gabriela Perez-Hobrecker
It is January 2014, and the case protagonist, David Milestone (senior advisor at the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at the U.S. Agency for International…
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It is January 2014, and the case protagonist, David Milestone (senior advisor at the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at the U.S. Agency for International Development's Global Health Bureau), is preparing for a meeting of global stakeholders and pharmaceutical manufacturers who are interested in reducing mortality caused by childhood pneumonia and are prepared to donate $10 million to support this effort.
Milestone's goal is to propose a strategy to address childhood pneumonia in Uganda, toward which the $10 million donation would go. In addition to effectively and sustainably reducing childhood pneumonia deaths, the plan must align the interests of various stakeholders behind the problem. A successful strategy in Uganda could be a model for interventions elsewhere. The United Nations Commission on Lifesaving Commodities for Women and Children recently identified Uganda as a “pathfinder” country, meaning it could serve as the example for other countries wrestling with the same issues. This is a remarkable opportunity to change the lives of children in Uganda—and all around the world.
After reading and analyzing the case, students will be able to:
Perform a stakeholder analysis
Appreciate the challenges involved in improving public health, especially in developing countries
Create a patient journey and use it to identify potential impact points
Perform a stakeholder analysis
Appreciate the challenges involved in improving public health, especially in developing countries
Create a patient journey and use it to identify potential impact points
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Soumik Bhusan and Amrinder Singh
The learning outcomes of this study are to gain an understanding of the banking regulations and their impact on banking performance, to understand the intermediation role of banks…
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Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes of this study are to gain an understanding of the banking regulations and their impact on banking performance, to understand the intermediation role of banks by channelizing depositors’ savings and providing loans to borrowers, to explain an impact of a recent regulatory change in the Indian banking that directly impacts their financial performance, to critically evaluate the different financial ratios to analyze the performance of a bank and to build a DuPont analysis framework for banks.
Case overview/synopsis
The case serves as a primer on banking regulations in India and provides insights into banking performance. Banking regulations play an important role in maintaining financial stability, specifically in emerging economies like India. The protagonist of the case is Salil Kumar who presented his internship project to the review committee of Stock Investment Company on April 16, 2021. However, he had to rework and present his final project within seven days on the basis of the feedback received from the committee. Kumar faced the dilemma of bringing together a comparative study across two banks, namely, Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI Bank) and State Bank of India (SBI) and building a DuPont framework covering the different aspects of banking performance. The case exemplifies the intricate regulatory landscape in India within which banks operate and highlights the recent alterations introduced by the Reserve Bank of India. For instance, the framework for dealing with domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) was introduced in 2014 and subsequently adopted in August 2015. The D-SIB framework provides inherent guarantee to large banks such as ICICI Bank and SBI. This ensures government backup in the event of any failure, thereby securing financial stability. The case study is suitable for banking and financial accounting courses taught in postgraduate management programs. Once the case is studied, the students are expected to understand the basics of banking, regulations, impact of regulations on banking performance and financial measures.
Complexity academic level
The case provides valuable insights into the intricate dynamics of the banking industry, offering a critical perspective for analysis. A well-structured teaching note would serve as a valuable tool for instructors, allowing them to facilitate engaging classroom discussions and effectively guide students toward achieving the desired teaching objectives.
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Teaching notes are available for educators only.
Subject code
CSS 1: Accounting and Finance.
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