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'Quiet quitting' and 'quiet thriving' - Flourishing in the modern organisation
- Aug 2023
- Cam Caldwell, Laura Ellera, Dima Rachid Jamali
- Valparaiso University Press
A look at what employers and employees can do to create healthier organization cultures - so that organizations and employees can flourish in today’s challenging economic times. Drawing upon research about the modern organization, the authors identify ten recommendations to help organizations create healthier and thriving work cultures. They also identify ten action steps which employees can proactively take to help themselves and their organizations to thrive.
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The silent risk - Never take 'K(no)w' for an answer! Embracing emergent conversations for change and innovation in business meetings
- Apr 2023
- Robert Lengel
- HR.com, Inc
- Personal Excellence
Dr. Robert H. Lengel discusses a way to host strategic conversations bringing stakeholders together in pursuit of changing organizational culture. He describes a method he has developed called 'conversation walls', which involves collating anonymous phrases used by staff in both their public and private conversations. This aims to reveal pent-up negativity and emotions which are not given space for expression in traditional business meetings.
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Innovation-driven culture
- Jan 2023
- Mark L.Frigo, Terry E.Groff, Hans Laessoe, Darren Snellgrove
- Institute of Management Accountants
- Strategic Finance
Developing a culture that prioritizes innovation is the key to creating long-term sustainable value, say the authors. They use three companies as case studies - Reading Bakery Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and the LEGO Group.
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Company culture and team creativity
- Aug 2022
- Isabella Grabner, Aleksandra Klein, Gerhard Speckbacher
- Institute of Management Accountants
- Strategic Finance
Companies that actively communicate shared core values are in a better position to achieve high creativity within project teams. The authors suggest designing projects so that team members have highly interdependent tasks but teams as a whole also have the ability to self-manage, without a team manager restricting their creative autonomy.
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Seeing the link between culture and technology is a fast-growing governance issiue
- Nov 2019
- Stuart R Levine
- National Association of Corporate Directors
- NACD Directorship
The article offers information on association between culture and technology which leads to board governance issue . Information on challenges in board's responsibility to gain deeper insights into culture and the impact that technology is discussed.
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In seventh heaven
- Sep 2019
- Coaching at Work Limited
- Coaching at Work
Coaching at Work magazine road-tests the Cultural Transformation Tool (CTT), developed by Richard Barrett of Barrett Values Centre. The article explains how the tool works and how to use it, and gives a verdict on its pros and cons for making progress towards a high-performance company culture.
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Business conduct: the leverage for a performance advantage
- Jul 2018
- Dragica Grbavac
- Canadian Institute of Management
- Canadian Manager
The article suggests several business conduct practices designed to foster a healthy ethical culture where senior managers demonstrate ethical leadership and raise the level of performance. The practices suggested include defining the board's expectations of the compliance and ethics program and communicating them into every day terms and practices, aligning conduct with a culture of integrity and transparency and nurturing stakeholder trust to enhance reputation.
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The board's role in promoting an ethical culture
- Jul 2018
- Sabine Vollmer
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Journal of Accountancy
The article discusses how boards of directors can encourage ethical behavior throughout the company. Pat Harned, chief executive officer of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, says that board members generally recognize their responsibility to oversee ethics and compliance, however, they often fail to determine what information to look for.
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Understand the behaviors of leaders and team members to improve your organization
- Jan 2018
- David F Smith
- Financial Planning Association
- Journal of Financial Planning
Article looks at research on effective leadership showing that applying five specific leadership behaviors when working with each team member will improve your organization. Research also shows that team members can behave in three ways at work that improve their own work life.
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Governing innovation; it;s not an oxymoron
- Jan 2018
- Elaine Eisenman | Melissa Means
- National Association of Corporate Directors
- NACD Directorship
The article presents suggestions to board members for driving innovation process in companies. Topics discussed include assigning process to create a culture where failure is seen as an opportunity for learning and growing; encouraging talent and tracking progress for new products in terms of milestone-based objectives and revenues.
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Ethical bankers
- Mar 2017
- Gwendolyn Gordon | David Zaring
- University of Iowa
- Journal of Corporation Law
The authors investigate the calls for a culture of ethics in banking - how effective have efforts to get bankers to behave more ethically been?
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Modeling accountant whistleblowing intentions: Applying the theory of planned behavior and the fraud triangle
- Jan 2017
- Owen J.Brown | Jerry Hays | Martin T. Stuebs Jr
- American Accounting Association
- Accounting and the Public Interest
Based on responses from 284 accountants, the authors model the likelihood that professional accountants will whistleblow on a material accounting fraud.
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The neuroscience of trust: Management behaviours that foster employee engagement
- Jan 2017
- Paul J Zack
- Harvard Business School Publication Corp.
- Harvard Business Review
Article looks at the author's research into building a culture of trust in an organisation. Employees in high-trust organisations are more productive, have more energy, collaborate better with colleagues, and stay with their employers longer. They also suffer less stress and are generally happier, which fuels stronger performance.
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The indispensable discipline of change
- Apr 2016
- Sean McCabe
- SourceMedia, Inc
- Accounting Today
The article focuses on the need for accounting firms to manage change to get better. According to Carl Peterson, vice president of small firms at the American Institute of CPAs, in order to move forward together, a connection with similar firms should be made when talking change management in a place with limited resources..
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Displaying 1-10 of 14 results
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'Quiet quitting' and 'quiet thriving' - Flourishing in the modern organisation
- Aug 2023
- Cam Caldwell, Laura Ellera, Dima Rachid Jamali
A look at what employers and employees can do to create healthier organization cultures - so that organizations and employees can flourish in today’s challenging economic times. Drawing upon research about the modern organization, the authors identify ten recommendations to help organizations create healthier and thriving work cultures. They also identify ten action steps which employees can proactively take to help themselves and their organizations to thrive.
Exclusive
The silent risk - Never take 'K(no)w' for an answer! Embracing emergent conversations for change and innovation in business meetings
- Apr 2023
- Robert Lengel
Dr. Robert H. Lengel discusses a way to host strategic conversations bringing stakeholders together in pursuit of changing organizational culture. He describes a method he has developed called 'conversation walls', which involves collating anonymous phrases used by staff in both their public and private conversations. This aims to reveal pent-up negativity and emotions which are not given space for expression in traditional business meetings.
Exclusive
Innovation-driven culture
- Jan 2023
- Mark L.Frigo, Terry E.Groff, Hans Laessoe, Darren Snellgrove
Developing a culture that prioritizes innovation is the key to creating long-term sustainable value, say the authors. They use three companies as case studies - Reading Bakery Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and the LEGO Group.
Exclusive
Company culture and team creativity
- Aug 2022
- Isabella Grabner, Aleksandra Klein, Gerhard Speckbacher
Companies that actively communicate shared core values are in a better position to achieve high creativity within project teams. The authors suggest designing projects so that team members have highly interdependent tasks but teams as a whole also have the ability to self-manage, without a team manager restricting their creative autonomy.
Exclusive
Seeing the link between culture and technology is a fast-growing governance issiue
- Nov 2019
- Stuart R Levine
The article offers information on association between culture and technology which leads to board governance issue . Information on challenges in board's responsibility to gain deeper insights into culture and the impact that technology is discussed.
Exclusive
In seventh heaven
- Sep 2019
Coaching at Work magazine road-tests the Cultural Transformation Tool (CTT), developed by Richard Barrett of Barrett Values Centre. The article explains how the tool works and how to use it, and gives a verdict on its pros and cons for making progress towards a high-performance company culture.
Exclusive
Business conduct: the leverage for a performance advantage
- Jul 2018
- Dragica Grbavac
The article suggests several business conduct practices designed to foster a healthy ethical culture where senior managers demonstrate ethical leadership and raise the level of performance. The practices suggested include defining the board's expectations of the compliance and ethics program and communicating them into every day terms and practices, aligning conduct with a culture of integrity and transparency and nurturing stakeholder trust to enhance reputation.
Exclusive
The board's role in promoting an ethical culture
- Jul 2018
- Sabine Vollmer
The article discusses how boards of directors can encourage ethical behavior throughout the company. Pat Harned, chief executive officer of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, says that board members generally recognize their responsibility to oversee ethics and compliance, however, they often fail to determine what information to look for.
Exclusive
Understand the behaviors of leaders and team members to improve your organization
- Jan 2018
- David F Smith
Article looks at research on effective leadership showing that applying five specific leadership behaviors when working with each team member will improve your organization. Research also shows that team members can behave in three ways at work that improve their own work life.
Exclusive
Governing innovation; it;s not an oxymoron
- Jan 2018
- Elaine Eisenman | Melissa Means
The article presents suggestions to board members for driving innovation process in companies. Topics discussed include assigning process to create a culture where failure is seen as an opportunity for learning and growing; encouraging talent and tracking progress for new products in terms of milestone-based objectives and revenues.
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