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Leadership skills are an important focus area of professional development activities
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Dr. Markus Nini

Leadership skills: What they are and why a skill-based approach to leadership matters

There is a vast amount of research about which leadership skills drive leadership performance. In this CQ Dossier we introduce the concept of leadership skills, different leadership skill models, and the benefits associated with a skill-based approach.
Leadership skills, Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, Leadership competencies
Lean management is an important tool to improve performance. We have a look at the foundation of lean management and its building blocks.
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Dr. Markus Nini

Lean management: Principles, implementation, and benefits for professionals

Lean management is a philosophy with a proven track record of improving efficieny and performance in organizations. In this CQ Dossier, we have a look at the foundation of lean management, the principles behind it and and its benefits.
Lean management
What is Innovation? The Psychology of Distinctive Thinking
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Dr. Devon Price

What is innovation? The psychology of creativity and distinctive thinking

This CQ Dossier will review the existing psychological research on how innovation and innovative thinking is defined, its relation to creativity, and how it impacts success in an organizational context.
Innovation, Unique thinking, Creativity, Evidence-based Innovation Management, Problem solving, Idea generation
Leadership competencies and models provide guidance which KSAO make an effective leader
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Dr. Annette Towler

Leadership competencies and leadership competency models: What they are and why they matter

This CQ Dossier describes leadership competencies and why they are an important foundation for organizational effectiveness. We describe some core models and also provide practical examples of leadership competencies profiles developed in different industries.
Leadership, Leadership competencies, Leadership effectiveness
Situational awareness is a management tool professionals can use in the area of error prevention and performance improvement
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Dr. Markus Nini

Situational awareness: What it is and why it matters as a management tool

The benefits associated with situational awareness are significant with an increase in safety, task, team and organizational performance as the most important outcomes. We have a look how you can use situational awareness as a management tool in the private and public sector.
Situational awareness
Below the Tip of the Iceberg: How Organizational Cultures impacts Communication
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Aaron G.

Below the tip of the iceberg: How organizational culture impacts communication at the workplace

This CQ Dossier describes how organizational culture effects communication in the workplace alongside the internal belief systems of employees. Cultural variables and their impact on workplace communication are presented.
Psychological safety, Organizational culture, Internal beliefs, Workplace communication
Effective performance feedback is an important part of HR practices within an organization.
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Dr. Annette Towler

Effective Performance Feedback: How to give performance feedback to employees

This CQ Dossier focuses on effective performance feedback and how to give performance feedback to employees that improves individual and organizational effectiveness. We review recent research from psychology and related social sciences and summarize the key findings such that manager and professionals can implement them in their organization.
Performance management, Performance feedback, Performance appraisal
Evidence-based management provides guidance on strategic HR Manaement Frameworks
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Dr. Annette Towler

Strategic Human Resource Management Framework for High Performance Organizations: What does the evidence tell us?

This CQ Dossier describes how organizations can gain a competitive advantage through human capital. It describes how investment in HRM practices can enable high performing organization.
Evidence-based HR, Human capital
Social Loafing: Why it is important and how to avoid it
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Dr. Annette Towler

Social Loafing: Why it is important and how to avoid it

Social Loafing can have a negative impact on team productivity. Lean what it is and how to avoid it in this CQ Dossier.
Social loafing, Team performance, Team effectiveness, Team cohesion
Managing teams and team performance is an important skill of any manager and professional.
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Dr. Annette Towler

Team Performance Management: How to Provide Effective Feedback to Teams?

This CQ Dossier focuses on how organizations can effectively provide feedback to teams. Within performance appraisal research, attention has been paid on how best to provide feedback to individuals. It is less clear how to provide feedback to teams to help them be effective and efficient.
Team Performance Management, Performance feedback, Performance management, Performance appraisal
Research quality of scientific studies can be evaluated with the concepts of validity and reliability
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Dr. Devon Price

Understanding science: How to evaluate the research quality of scientific studies?

As you continue to develop your evidence-based management skills, learning to evaluate research for its quality and applicability to your own management practice is paramount. While peer-reviewed, empirical research is generally of a much higher quality than other published information found from other sources, not all journal articles are created equally.
Evidence-based Management, Social Science, Validity, Reliability, Research quality
Toxic leadership can disrupt effective performance management systems when not addressed properly
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Dr. Annette Towler

How Toxic Leadership can Undermine and Destroy Effective Performance Management Systems

Most of the research on leader effectiveness has focused on the positive side of leader behavior. However, there is evidence that toxic leaders can seriously undermine organizational life through creating a climate of intolerance and incivility. This CQ Dossier describes toxic leadership and how this negative form of leadership can disrupt effective performance management.
Performance management, Dark traits, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Toxic leadership, Performance appraisal, Employee selection
Both physical and emotional wellbeing is a priority for every organization
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Dr. Devon Price

Health and Wellness: Cultivating Physical and Emotional Health in an Organization

There are numerous apparent benefits for making the physical and even emotional health of employees a priority. This dossier will review some of the latest empirical research on the subject.
Work and well-being, Mental health
Leadership as a relationship: Why "we" matters more than I"
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Dr. Annette Towler

Leadership as a relationship: Why "we" matters more than I"

This CQ Dossier focuses on the importance of relationships within the leadership literature. It describes the theories of leader-member exchange (LMX) and servant leadership to describe how effective leaders build quality and strong relationships with each of their followers to gain commitment to the organizational mission.
Evidence-based Leadership, Leader Member Exchange (LMX), Leadership, Servant Leadership
Organizational resilience
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Dr. Annette Towler

Organizational resilience: What is it and why does it matter during a crisis?

There is much to learn about how professionals and organizations can effectively weather the storm during a crisis such as the current Covid-19 pandemic. Organizational resilience and the practices associated with fostering it are key to managing disruption.
Resilience, VUCA, Autonomy, Human Resource Development, Organizational culture
This CQ Dossier provides and overview of research and theory on effective performance management systems
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Dr. Annette Towler

Effective performance management: How successful organizations manage staff

This CQ Dossier focuses on effective performance management and how organizations can initiate an effective performance management system (EPMS) that allows both managers and employees to strive for excellence.
Performance management, Performance appraisal, Performance feedback, Goal Agreement, Autonomy
Emotional and psychological skills such as de-escalation, perspective taking and boundary setting are key skills for managers in the private and public sector.
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Dr. Devon Price

Holistic Growth: Emotional and Psychological Skill Development for Managers

Managing a diverse array of working professionals is an endlessly complex task. Not only is each employee multifaceted and psychologically complicated, so are the constantly evolving relationships and group dynamics present between each of them. It is no surprise, then, that some of the most common problems encountered by managers are interpersonal and psychological in nature.
Management development, Emotional skills, Psychological skills, De-escalation strategies, Psychological perspective-taking
Teams are first choice to solve complex problems. We provide evidence-based practices on team performance management.
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Dr. Annette Towler

How to effectively lead teams through performance management

This CQ Dossier focuses on how organizations can effectively manage and lead teams through effective performance management. Organizations have focused on using teams to increase organizational effectiveness, yet many of these practices have not always been based on scientific principles.
Team Performance Management, Performance feedback, Performance management, Transformational Leadership, High Performance Team

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