Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
When Grand Challenges Literature Becomes the Tower of Babel
The management community’s sudden interest in Grand Challenges risks turning Grand Challenges literature into a Tower of Babel.
Would You Step on Board an IT Project Named Titanic?
This anecdote illustrates the joy of doing this research. It shows that IT project names sometimes exhibit an unexpected twist and can have a completely different effect than anticipated. One project name even surprised us as researchers on this topic.
A Broader View of Discrimination Toward Muslims in the Workplace
Jaya Addin Linando discusses discrimination against Muslims and answers questions about his new paper, “A relational perspective comparison of workplace discrimination toward Muslims in Muslim-minority and Muslim-majority countries,” published in International Journal of Cross Cultural Management.
Welcome Boomerang Employees Back — Effectively
A recent Paychex survey asked individuals who quit their jobs if they were satisfied with their original decision and whether they had any regrets. About 80 percent of the more than 800 employees surveyed said that they did have regrets about quitting. In addition, 78 percent of individuals who left their jobs said that they would like to have their old job back, and 68 percent had tried to do so. Paychex dubbed this the “great regret.” However, these results give employers valuable information about the potential to work with those who have been called “boomerang employees” in previous generations.
How to Practice Aristotelian Deliberation in Business Organizations
The authors argue that Aristotelian ethics of deliberation is a safeguard against the risks of ideological conditioning, false debates, and instrumentalization of power by the strongest people.
Can You Be My Teammate? Human-Robot Teams in Organizations
The topic of robots and humans working together in teams, so-called mixed human-robot teams, is of particular interest, as teams are the norm in the workplace for many of us.
Business Models for Sustainable Technology
When and how do business model schemas change in internal corporate venturing?
Five Elements to Help Universities Better Serve Their Main Stakeholders: Students
As the world continues to evolve, so do the needs of US college students. Heidi M. Neck and Christopher P Neck draw from their combined 50 years of teaching over 100,000 students as they examine what students want in today’s classroom.
