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Creating a High-Performing Workplace
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Interviews
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Beyster Institute Senior Consultant Martin Staubus is teaching a course entitled "Management 269: Creating a High-Performing Workplace." In this interview, Professor Staubus describes the course's five themes.
Employees Matter
Author: Broughton, Anne Claire
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: SJF Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Increasing numbers of businesses view their employees not as a mere cost but as invaluable contributors for business success. These firms are implementing strategies to fully engage employees at all levels. The Employees Matter report identifies sixteen fast growing entrepreneurial firms that employ employee ownership and engagement strategies which they perceive as directly linked with improved business performance. Eight other notable companies with key lessons to share are included as sidebar profiles.
Google's Education Evangelist Preaches the Gospel of Creativity
Author: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Publication Year: 2011
Jaime Casap, "Education Evangelist" at Google, argues that other companies can learn how to innovate and maintain creativity by studying Google's corporate culture, which strives for an egalitarian management style that democratizes the workplace and educates every employee about the company's mission statement.
Solving the Dilbert Paradox
Author: Adler, Richard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
Publication Year: 2011
This report is the result of the 2010 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Talent Development, and details how some organizations are experimenting with ways to improve organizational learning, collaboration, and access to knowledge and ideas outside the corporate hierarchy.
Privatization of the Tiger Leaping House in Nanjing, PRC
Author: Grainger, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The Liang family left China’s mainland under pressure in 1949; they resettled in Taiwan, resumed their hospitality business and now, two generations later, return to find their family's old guest house is a run-down state-owned enterprise. How will they deal with this privatization and the inevitable bureaucracy of purchasing, demolition and rebuilding the old guest house? How will they convert human resources trained under planned economy conditions into dynamic employees operating in the market economy while being culturally sensitive?
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Authors: Bazerman, Max; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2011
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be.
Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)
Authors: Sucher, Sandra J.; Corsi, Elena
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally.
Employee Ownership: Making It Work
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
Employee ownership is a persuasive concept for many, owners and employees alike. But how to decide if an ESOP or other equity model is the right alternative, how to get started, and how to keep the model working once it is in place? This Reading Collection includes a selection of material related to the nuts and bolts of ESOP and other equity models.
The Employee Ownership Culture
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
How to establish a positive employee culture and use it to promote the good of the company are key questions for business leaders. Supporters of employee-owned businesses argue that instilling an ownership culture creates the type of human resource environment necessary for corporate success. This Reading Collection includes material related to the organizational cultures of companies using employee and stock ownership, profit sharing, and other incentive-based compensation models.
Eating Their Cake and Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources as the Main Ingredient to Workplace Bullying
Authors: Wheeler, Anthony R.; Halbesleben, Jonathon R. B.; Shanine, Kristen
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2011
What circumstances encourage and support workplace bullying? The authors discuss this and more, as well as recommendations for organizations trying to cope with such behavior.
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