All Management Learning Resources

  • All Management Learning Resources
Evidence-based learning practices are a key driver of learning effectiveness

Evidence-based learning practices for team e-learning interventions

This CQ Dossier provides evidence-based e-learning practices for team e-learning interventions. The dossier draws on e-learning principles that have been shown to be effective for more than one person. Organizations have focused on using teams to increase organizational effectiveness yet many of these practices have not always been based on scientific principles.
Evidence-based learning, e-learning, Team learning, Team Building
Implementing an e-learning systems requires organizations to move from training to learning

From training to learning: How to introduce an effective e-learning system in organizations

This CQ Dossier focuses on effective e-learning and how organizations can initiate an effective e-learning program that trains and develops talent within the organization. The dossier describes the features and stages of an effective e-learning system and provides brief suggestions on how organizations can create an effective system. The objective of an effective e-learning system is to provide training to employees through web-based instruction for them to be effective in their jobs.
e-learning, Technology-driven instruction, Evidence-based learning

How to create a safety climate through High Reliability Teams

This CQ Dossier focuses on the implementation of an effective safety climate through high reliability teams (HRT) in high reliability organizations (HROs). The dossier draws on theory and research on HRTs to provide a series of broad-based recommendations that will enable the implementation of policies to provide a strong safety climate.
Workplace health and safety, High Reliability Team (HRT), Safety climate, Shared mental models
Research on firefighting teams, aircraft carrier crews and other teams that deliver high performance in a complex and challenging environment provide insights into evidence-based practices on how to reach a world-class safety level

The Importance of High Reliability Teams in promoting safety

This CQ Dossier focuses on how organizations can effectively use High Reliability Teams to promote safety. Effective teams are social in nature with team members having high task interdependency and shared, common values (Salas, Cooke & Rosen, 2008). High Reliability Teams have the ability to promote safety through task-relevant knowledge, high levels of communication, and adapting to the environment. This dossier describes why High Reliability Teams can promote safety and the importance of safety promotion through teams.
Workplace health and safety, High Reliability Team (HRT), High Reliability Organization (HRO), Human error, Safety climate, Shared mental models
Organizational culture plays an important role when it comes to performance and performance management. This CQ Dossiers provides evidence-based practices on how to cultivate a culture that supports hight performance.

Organizational culture: How to encourage and cultivate effective performance

For organizations to have an effective performance system, they must cultivate a culture that encourages effective performance. This CQ Dossier describes those characteristics of organizational culture that promote effective performance and makes recommendations on how organizations can create interventions to promote a culture that values high performance.
Organizational culture, Performance management, Competing Values framework, Leadership effectiveness
Toxic leadership can disrupt effective performance management systems when not addressed properly

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
Managers and professionals should also keep an eye on their own health and wellbeing as basis to care for others.

Manager Health and Wellbeing: Taking Care of Yourself When Managing Others

Most managers are, by definition, focused on factors outside of themselves. Managing a team of employees and running an organization requires a ton of outward attention, and an ability to prioritize others’ needs before addressing ones’ own. This perspective, however, can come at a high price: managers may neglect to notice or address their own stress and physical health.
Management development, Resilience, Mental health, Work and well-being, Stress, Burnout
Effective performance feedback is an important part of HR practices within an organization.

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
From time to time managers need to evaluate their performance based on qualitative and quantiative data in order to find areas to improve

Evaluating Your Management Performance with Insights from Psychological and Organizational Research

Managers are uniquely positioned to evaluate the performance of their employees as well as themselves. By virtue of your position, you have access to a variety of data sources that can be used to draw conclusions about employee productivity, commitment, and satisfaction; many of these data sources can also be used to draw meaningful inferences about your own leadership ability.
Management self-evaluation, Management development, Management performance, Employee retention, Absenteeism rate

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