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As a manager your are in charge of cultivating innovation in your organization

Cultivating innovation: An introduction to the innovation evidence-based management learning team

As a manager, it is largely your responsibility to cultivate an environment where innovative ideas can be generated – and evaluated for their usefulness. Management decisions and policies can have a...

Creativity, Creativity Killers, Evidence-based Innovation Management, Idea generation, Innovation

What innovations do exist in the area of performance management and what is there benefit from an evidence-based management point of view?

Leadership, Learning & Development

The future of performance management: A critical review of current practices and innovations

Recently, there has been a trend among top-performing companies to reinvent their performance management systems. Organizations are discarding the traditional practice of evaluation through a system...

Employee engagement, Employee selection, Evidence-based Management, Goal Agreement, Goal setting theory, Performance appraisal, Performance management

social science is the most undervalued branch of science

Research, Company

Why is social science the most under-valued branch of science?

A while ago, I was talking to a friend who had a background in physics and told him I’d just received an MSc (Master of Science) in Psychology. He smirked slightly and I asked what he was smiling...

Artificial Intelligence, Critical thinking, Evidence-based Management, Psychology, Social Science

Absenteeism rate is strongly connected to job satisfaction

Leadership, Work and well-being

Absenteeism rate: The hidden champion key performance indicator to measure job satisfaction in an organization

When workers are absent from work, this can cause many problems for organizations. Although organizations expect employees to take time off for doctor appointments and sickness, excessive absenteeism...

Absenteeism rate, Burnout, Employee engagement, Job satisfaction, Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Team processes that support idea generation and problem solving can boost innovation

Dr. Erika Price

Team processes that breed innovation: Idea generation, problem-finding and critique strategies

In order for a work team to thrive and develop innovative, paradigm-challenging ideas, creativity must be properly fostered. Working towards that requires that you, as a manager, recognize that creative output is inherently risky and vulnerable – especially when the pressure is high and the need for a useful solution is paramount (Paulus, 2000).

Evidence-based Innovation Management, Creativity, Innovation, Team Dynamics, Team Building, Idea generation, Problem solving

Dr. Annette Towler

Does leadership really make a difference? The benefits of leadership in a nutshell

This CQ Dossier describes modern theories of leadership through a focus on emergent theories that link human resource management and strategy across multiple-levels. The dossier describes the latest innovations in research to show that leadership is a process through which organizations can gain a competitive advantage.

Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, Flexible leadership theory, Complexity theory of leadership

Measuring Innovation Potential: Traits that Predict Unique Thought

Dr. Erika Price

Measuring innovation potential: Traits that predict unique thought

As a manager, it is important to take advantage of your employees’ potential for innovative thought. More than just creativity, innovation potential speaks to an individual’s capacity to generate novel and useful ideas that can inspire others and produce growth.

Creativity, Innovation, Employee selection, Five Factor Model (FFM), Diversity and Inclusion, Unique thinking, Evidence-based Innovation Management

Teammitglieder, die sich von ihrem Team akzeptiert fühlen, verspüren psychologische Sicherheit.

Leadership, Learning & Development

Unlocking the secrets of psychological safety: What does scientific evidence tell us?

One of the most important aspects of organizational life is that management and staff feel secure in taking risks. The concept of psychological safety is the belief that a team is safe to take...

High Performance Organization, High Performance Team, Innovation, Leadership, Organizational learning, Psychological safety, Speak-up culture

Job crafting puts employees in the driver seat for designing their work environment

Dr. Annette Towler

Employees in charge: Why autonomy and job crafting boost motivation

This CQ Dossier describes the Job Characteristics Model that provides recommendations on how best to design jobs to enrich employee motivation. The model focuses on the intrinsic motivation that employees gain through having control over their work. The model shows how autonomy, job crafting and feedback can enhance employee motivation and enrich the experience of work.

Motivation, Job crafting, Autonomy, Job performance, Job satisfaction, Basic psychological needs

Leadership, Motivation

Management incentive plans from an Evidence-based Management point of view: Controversies and innovations

Increasingly, organizations are changing the ways in which they compensate and reward their employees. This is true for the relationship between the employer and management. A management incentive...

Executive pay, Goal Agreement, Job performance, Motivation

Changes in technology and the workplace have resulted in an increase in virtual teams.

Dr. Annette Towler

The technology dimension of leadership: How to lead virtual teams in the 21st century knowledge economy

Changes in technology and the workplace have resulted in an increase in virtual teams. This CQ Dossier describes how leaders can effectively manage virtual teams and need a fresh set of skills to facilitate team effectiveness. The dossier draws on research and theory on leadership style and virtual teams.

Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, Leader Member Exchange (LMX), Virtual teams, Charismatic Leadership

Teams have task-relevant knowledge, share a high level of communication and adapt to the environment

Dr. Annette Towler

The power of teams and how create the right environment to harness it

This CQ Dossier describes the key characteristics of effective teams. The dossier draws on research that show how effective teams operate through coordination, communication, and shared cognition. The dossier describes how organizations can provide human resource practices such as employee training to ensure that teams are successful in reaching their missions and goals.

Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, High Performance Team, Team Building, Team Dynamics, Workplace communication

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

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

Drawing on recent research and science we examine the dark side of leadership.

Dr. Annette Towler

The dark side of leadership: How bad leaders can destroy organizations and undermine their followers

This CQ Dossier focuses on the dark or destructive side of leadership and utilizes a trait approach in understanding destructive leaders. It summarizes the main personality traits that categorize destructive leaders, including narcissism, psychopathy, hubris and Machiavellianism.

Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, Personality, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Trait based leadership, Dark traits

Resiliente Menschen können besser mit Rückschlägen umgehen

Leadership, Learning & Development, Work and well-being

Firm as a rock: Assessing, harnessing, and building resilience in an organization

One of the current “trends” in the science of management is examining employees’ resilience. Like “emotional intelligence” and “grit” before it, “resilience” has become a desirable and much-discussed...

Burnout, Employee engagement, Evidence-based Management, Resilience

Developing Talent through Human Resource Development: What does evidence tell us?

Dr. Annette Towler

Developing talent through human resource development (HRD): What does the evidence tell us?

This CQ Dossier describes how organizations can develop talent through effective Human Resource Development (HRD) systems. It describes the three main stages of HRD including needs analysis, design and implementation of training, and evaluation of training.

Evidence-based HR, Human capital, Human Resource Development

Personality is an important concept that can be used in selection and assessment

Dr. Annette Towler

Personality as a predictor of job performance: How to measure personality and select the right employees

This CQ Dossier describes how organizations can use personality tests for selection and recruitment purposes. We focus on the Big Five Personality Model and describe the research that supports use of the Big Five for validation purposes with criteria.

Evidence-based HR, Personality, Job performance, Five Factor Model (FFM)

Competency-Based Hiring rely on competency frameworks developed by an organization and can be used in selection and assessment processes

Dr. Annette Towler

Competency-based hiring: The benefits of utilizing competency models as opposed to traditional job analysis models

This CQ Dossier describes a competency-based approach to hiring and describes the benefits of utilizing competency models as opposed to traditional job analysis models. It provides information on how best to implement a competency-based model into HR practices.

Evidence-based HR, Employee selection, Competency

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