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Companies Promote Ethical Behavior by Helping Employees Blend Work, Personal Identities
Promoting a better integration of employees' work and personal identities can make them more likely to pursue ethical behavior, according to research highlighted in a recent online posting for ...
Effective Leaders With Limited Time Succeed by Prioritizing Tasks
Executives and managers often face this reality: There aren't enough hours in the day to finish everything that needs to get done. In this situation, acknowledging the time you have left can make all ...
Bringing in an Expert to Make Jobs More Interesting Could Be a Good Idea
No one wants a boring job, but sometimes, executives and managers design them that way. When that happens, the risk is that employee engagement diminishes, performance declines and turnover ...
Low-Integrity CEOs Cost Their Companies in Multiple Ways: UVA Research
Chief executive officers with lower integrity cost their firms money, both in higher audit fees and poorer long-term performance, according to new research from a group of leading accounting ...
Why Firing Someone Can Be Good for Both Manager and Employee
Every executive and manager confronts this challenge: how to fire a poor performer. One way to make the process easer is to consider that not everyone belongs on a given team. Even more importantly, ...
The Talent Gap Opportunity
There surely is a talent gap in the insurance industry, as direct industry competitors and companies in non-insurance sectors vie to bring on—and keep—people with technology and change management ...
The Most Admired Leaders Are Straight Shooters and Take Ownership of Their Mistakes
Executives: Be straightforward and take ownership of the mistakes you make. Why does this matter? Those two traits are among important ones displayed by the most admired leaders, according to a ...
Make Sure Your Company’s Leadership Development Programs Have Staying Power
Leadership development programs at companies are one thing. But they don't have much staying power outside of the classroom unless executives plan for long-term implementation of the key ideas. A ...