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Stereotype Threat and Feedback Seeking in the Workplace
Authors: Brief, Arthur P.; Roberson, Loriann; Deitch, Elizabeth A.; Block, Caryn J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 62, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
This study examined stereotype threat (Steele & Aronson, 1995) in workplace settings and investigated relationships of stereotype threat to feedback seeking and feedback acceptance...
Bridging in a Globalizing World: Strategies and Tools for Developing Cultural Intelligence
Authors: Branch, John; Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey; Augustine, Grace
Product Type: Cases
Source: The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2008
This note gives students the baseline for developing cultural intelligence.
Road to Hell (A, B, C)
Author: Evans, Gareth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1980
Deals with the problems of developing indigenous personnel to take over expatriate positions. Human relations cases, they deal specifically with the problems of communications and misunderstandings between people of different cultures.
Agility
Authors: Tomasini, Rolando; Hanson, M.; Van Wassenhove, Luk
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
In 2006 Kuwait-based Agility joined the ranks of the top ten global logistics providers worldwide.
ZIBA Design, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2002
ZIBA Design Inc. is not your ordinary industrial design firm.
Berger Soft in Pakistan
Authors: Muhammad Taufiq, Farrukh; Iqbal khan, Mohsin; Ali Rahman, Asif
Product Type: Cases
Source: Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
Publication Year: 2006
It had happened once again. He had never expected Mr Ali to do shoddily in Germany.
The Introduction of a Works Council at SAP
Authors: Holtbruegge, D; Dietrich, T; Gerner, G; Merkl, W; Pertsch, P; Zellerhoff, M
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
The case is devoted to the conflicts of co-determination in a globalised business environment with a high capital mobility.
Get Aggressive About Passivity
Authors: Samuelson, Judith; Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2005
Whistle-blowing isn't a desirable end, it's a last resort. Most organizations want workers who don't just think the right thing but also do it. Why is it so hard for people to act on their values?
BRAC
Author: Quelch, John A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
BRAC is the world's largest NGO and has over the past 20 years experienced tremendous rates of growth. The case looks at diversity within the organization and the aspects of management that have made the organization so successful...
Bank of London
Authors: Wilson, J.; Seijts, Gerard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The vice-president of the Bank of London was stunned to hear that the union representing clerical workers was initiating a complaint of gender discrimination in starting salaries.
People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline
Author: Beer, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Premier Case Collection
Publication Year: 1990
This case describes the innovative approach to organizing and managing employees by People Express and describes the company's eventual demise.
Ryla Teleservices
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Ryla Teleservices is a young, rapidly growing minority-owned company in the teleservices industry.
A Note on Sexism and Gender Discrimination at Work in Pakistan: Rhetoric or Reality
Authors: Zaman, N.; Shah, G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Lahore University of Management Sciences (SEDC)
Publication Year: 2005
This note examines the perceptions of working women and men about gender bias against both genders in the work environment, through several in-depth interviews and 155 quantitative surveys of working women and men.
Governing Sumida Corp.
Authors: Egawa, Masako; Toyama, Chisato; Bettcher, Kim Eric; Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Sumida was the first Japanese company to adopt a new U.S.-inspired “committee system” of governance as permitted under legal changes that took effect in 2003. One of the main objectives of the change was to attract investors' attention and boost their confidence. Board members must assess the company's governance system and decide whether further changes are needed.
Developing a Management System's Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group (Part 2 of 2)
Authors: McElhaney, Kellie A.; Toffel, Michael W.; Hill, Natalie
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California
Publication Year: 2009
This article describes preliminary results and ongoing challenges faced by Designworks/USA, an industrial design subsidiary of the BMW Group, in its sustainability management efforts since it implemented the world's first certified Sustainability Management System (SMS).
Five Ways to Boost Retention
Author: Ross, Judith A.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This article spells out five proven practices to help you keep your most talented employees.
SRC Holdings: The "Open Book" Management Culture
Authors: Mukund, A.; Neela Radhika, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2004
The case examines how Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation Holdings (SRC), a key player in the engine and parts remanufacturing market in the US, turned itself around by implementing the 'Open Book Management' (OBM) philosophy.
The Culture of Employee Ownership at Herman Miller
Authors: Goodman, Josh; Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2008
Best known for its extremely popular Aeron chairs, Herman Miller, Inc. has built a culture of employee ownership and participative management that has helped drive its worldwide success. This article describes how the company has maintained an organizational culture that encourages innovation, participation, and a sense of ownership.
American Outsourcing
Authors: Vietor, Richard H.K; Veytsman, Alexander
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the phenomenon of outsourcing jobs from the United States, and reviews the evolution of Mexico's Maquiladoras, manufacturing special economic areas in China, and information technology and service-sourcing in India.
Potter-Smith Chartered Accountants
Authors: Haywood-Farmer, J.; Meier, P.; Graham, C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
When confronted with a major legal action, the director of professional standards at a major Canadian accounting firm must decide if the firm's quality control procedures are adequate.
Wal-Mart's Giant Sucking Sound
Author: Hindrey, Leo J., Jr.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2005
Using a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, Wal-Mart's executives are defiantly blasting back at opponents who have criticized the retail giant's shoddy labor practices...
Mike Winsor: A Career in Marketing
Author: Dolan, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
An MBA student has received an offer to join Kraft Foods, a leading consumer packaged goods firm. This unit is a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company whose other major subsidiary is a leading cigarette manufacturer...
David Neeleman on the Origins of JetBlue's Culture
Authors: Neeleman, David; Wademan, Daisy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
JetBlue's David Neeleman talks about how his unexpected lessons from working with the poor have informed his company's egalitarian culture.
The Digital Oil Field Advantage
Authors: Steinhubl, Andrew; Klimchuk, Glenn
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: strategy+business
Publication Year: 2008
New technologies can help the oil industry manage a shrinking labor force and rising demand.
Rite-Solutions
Authors: Rao, Hayagreeva; Hoyt, David W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2006
The Rite-Solutions culture was based on trust and collaboration, with a desire to tap into the creativity of the entire organization. The founders tried a number of methods to involve employees in innovation, which became more difficult as the company grew and added remote offices. This case focuses on the relationship between culture and innovation, and the ways in which companies can stimulate innovation.
The Signature Group
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
The Signature Group, Inc. (TSG) is an employee-owned network systems firm established in 1997.
Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and HR Policies
Authors: Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas; Harden, Erika E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Publication Year: 2008
This paper investigates the relationship of "shared capitalist" compensation systems—profit/gain sharing, employee ownership, and stock options—to the culture for innovation and employees’ ability and willingness to engage in innovative activity.
IG Metall – A Trade Union in Crisis?
Authors: Rajiv, Fernando; Tejomoortula, Soorya
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2006
Over the years, IG Metall has made significant contributions to the industrial relations climate in Germany. But it has also been accused of improper protection and harming the interests of workers and employees...
Intel Labs: Photolithography Labs in Crisis
Author: Chesbrough, Henry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1999
Intel has evolved a new approach to managing its industrial research, the distributed labs model. The benefits and limits of this model are explored. Learning Objective: Illustrates a new approach to managing industrial research, the distributed labs model.
Caux Round Table
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
The Caux Round Table is "an international network of principled business leaders working to promote a moral capitalism."
Circus Oz
Author: Phillis, James A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Circus Oz, Australia's premier, international circus, was exploring offering the new development officer position a higher-than-normal salary. The case covers the organization's dilemmas around this, and the situation's resolution.
Van Meter Industrial
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Do you want your ESOP committee to hit the ground running?
How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?
Authors: Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper uses nationally representative linked workplace-employee data from the British 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the operation of shared capitalist forms of pay—profit-sharing and group pay for performance, employee share ownership, and stock options—and their link to productivity.
AngloGold
Authors: Barrett, Diana; Key, Amanda
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
This case examines corporate responsibility when dealing with HIV/AIDS, and deals specifically with the case of AngloGold, a South African mining corporation.
Duane Morris
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Abrahams, Robin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Discusses the business practices of professional service firms, the evolution of corporate culture, and the maintenance of corporate culture as an aspect of strategic advantage.
Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
Author: Mintzberg, Henry
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2004
The trouble with "management" education, says author Henry Mintzberg, is that it is business education, and leaves a distorted impression of management. In Managers Not MBAs, he offers a new definition of management as a blend of craft (experience), art (insight), and science (analysis)...
On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
Author: Nocera, Joseph
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company’s plan to raise the amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 percent.
Bear Stearns and Employee Ownership
Author: Rosen, Corey
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
There have been a lot of stories about how employees are among the most hurt by the fire sale of Bear Stearns. This article attempts to piece together the available facts about just what kinds of employee ownership plans existed there.
Show Me the Money: Does Shared Capitalism Share the Wealth?
Authors: Buchele, Robert; Kruse, Douglas; Rodgers, Loren; Scharf, Adria
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper examines the effect of a variety of employee stock ownership programs – including ESOPs and broad based stock options – on employees’ holdings of their employers’ stock, their earnings and their wealth.
Stakeholder Engagement: A Road Map to Meaningful Engagement
Author: Jeffery, Neil
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
Publication Year: 2009
This guide is designed to provide strategic advice to senior executives who shape and lead institutional policy towards stakeholders, and practical guidance and case studies to operational managers who engage regularly with stakeholders. Reading this guide will help you to be better able to establish conditions for meaningful engagement by more effectively recognizing, analyzing and utilizing opportunities and challenges to building relations; and through exploring issues above and beyond the simple identification of stakeholders and immediate 'unprepared' initiation of conversations. It seeks to reflect the reality of managers' 'on the ground' experience, by drawing on lessons learned from past incidents, highlighted by practical examples.
Cal-Tex Protective Coatings, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Cal-Tex Protective Coatings, Inc. wants to be a company of CEOs—Certified Employee Owners—who think and act like executives.
Worker Responses to Shirking under Shared Capitalism
Authors: Freeman, Richard B.; Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
Group incentive systems have to overcome the free rider or 1/N problem, which gives workers an incentive to shirk, if they are to succeed.
Gender Issues in the Workplace
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Manthy, Lynn; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Gender in the workplace: is it still an issue? While it is increasingly easier in the early twenty-first century for women to work, manage, and take positions of high responsibility in American business, some issues and difficulties still remain...
Raleigh & Rosse: Measures to Motivate Exceptional Service
Authors: Simons, Robert L.; Mahoney, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
In January 2010, U. S. luxury goods retailer Raleigh & Rosse is being sued by its employees for encouraging "off the clock" hours. At the center of the class action lawsuit is the famous Raleigh & Rosse performance measurement system previously thought to be the core of the retailer's success.
Shared Capitalism in the US Economy
Authors: Park, Rhokeun; Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
Between one-third and one-half of employees participate directly in company performance through profit sharing, gain sharing, employee ownership, or stock options.
Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance: A Review of the Evidence
Authors: Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Rutgers University
Publication Year: 1997
This study addresses the types and recent trends in employee ownership, followed by evidence on the factors influencing growth and adoption.
Leadership in Law
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Winston, Victoria W.; Spence, Shirley
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Explores several issues: success factors for business building; discussion of the status of women in law; career planning; leading and building “your franchise” over time; leading a team; networking; “portability” of star talent; managerial producer role tension; management of knowledge workers; gender considerations at work; and work/life balance decisions.
Compensation at Level 3 Communications
Author: Meulbroek, Lisa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Level 3's unique compensation plan rewarded managers for the firm's performance only if the firm's stock price movement exceeded that of the market. This design was intended to maximize shareholder value by tying managers' performance more closely to that of the firm.
Raising Haier
Author: Ruimin, Zhang
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Zhang Ruimin's leadership of the renowned Haier Group began before the Chinese company even carried that name.
Corporate Involvement In Community Economic Development
Authors: Wood, Donna J.; Davenport, Kimberly S.; Blockson, Laquita C.; Van Buren III, Harry J
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business and Society, June 2002; Vol. 41, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2002
This empirical study examines how 105 business schools included courses on corporate involvement in community development in their curriculae.
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