Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. But selvesware devoted to greater productivity at the expense of mindfulness and mental health can’t sustainably succeed.

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Ethics Emotional Intelligence 31

Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 27, 2012

Marvin Weisbord, my long-time ODN colleague and friend (also steeped in the Lewin/Lippitt school), shared his research with me both in his marvelous book, Productive Workplaces, and in personal conversations. Meanwhile other individuals and groups in the plant doing the same work had no appreciable increase in productivity.

Development 86

Development Groups Research System 86

Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 14, 2012

.” NOTE: Most of what I have learned about Frederick Taylor I received from my long-time OD colleague, Marvin Wseibord, both in personal conversations and from his marvelous book, Productive Workplaces. No one in our long chain of OD ancestors is as controversial as Taylor. Consulting Engineer. a Specialty.

Development 54

Development Efficiency Organizational Development Nonprofit 54

Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2012

Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid looked at the role of management in integrating concern for people with concern for productivity, using a system-wide approach. This blog is an adaptation of their chapter in the ‘bible’ of the field of OD, Practicing Organization Development (3rd Edition, 2009, Rothwell, W.J., Stavros, J.M.,

Development 68

Development Survey Organizational Development Research 68

Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 26, 2012

All of these approaches recognized that an employee’s productivity and creativity have more to do with the way the job was designed and the system around that employee than with the characteristics of the person, something the Tavistock Institute had seen and highlighted in their earlier coal mine studies much earlier. Stavros, J.M.,

Management 61

Management System Groups Development 61

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2018

In 2009, Philips teamed up with a Dutch bank to develop the idea of a “rationalizer” bracelet to stop traders from making irrational decisions by monitoring their stress levels, which it measures by monitoring the wearer’s pulse. Systems that provide a targeted emotional analysis for learning purposes.

Analysis 28

Analysis System Emotional Intelligence Advertising 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

When Ursula Burns became CEO of Xerox, in 2009, she described how the Fortune 500 company suffered from “terminal niceness.” The Center says that civility in its workplace builds stronger, more productive teams that deliver the highest-quality health care to patients. and worldwide. Take ownership of civility.

Survey 29

Survey Pharmaceuticals Media Ethics 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover.

Data 28

Data Journal Report Talent 28

MishTalk

MAY 29, 2014

A majority of Millennials reported buying a product that had a social benefit and 84% of a generation that accounts for more than $1 trillion in U.S. Young & Rubicam’s brand attribute survey in 2009 of 2,300 adults found that a majority of Millennials belonged to a segment labeled “Spend Shifters.”

Survey 78

Survey Banking Study Accenture 78

Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

Skinner (1904-1990) took the Russian Ivan Pavlov’s salivating dogs to the next (human) level, theorizing that we are not making free-will decisions at all, but are products of what he called ‘stimulus/response-driven operant conditioning’. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. His principle: what gets rewarded gets repeated.

Development 58

Development Organizational Development Nonprofit Ethics 58

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When Google first began testing its almost comical-looking prototype vehicles on California roads in 2009, lawmakers didn’t even have a vocabulary to talk about the new technology, let alone any understanding of whether driving rules and accident liability laws dating back 100 years or more would need to be adapted or completely rewritten.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software System Efficiency 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Ethical Practices. Yet given his productivity, some hospital auditors wondered: Was all of the surgery really necessary? In 2009, a former compliance official at the hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging illegal financial incentives for doctors. “The patients are going to do what their physician tells them to do.

Healthcare 78

Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 78

Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

This blog is an adaptation of their chapter in the ‘bible’ of the field of OD, Practicing Organization Development (3rd Edition, 2009, Rothwell, W.J., They have drawn heavily from Weisbord’s wonderfully rich, easy-to-read, and well-documented description of the origins of the field in Productive Workplaces (1987 and revised in 2012).

Development 77

Development Organizational Development Consulting Leadership 77

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The UK’s Financial Services Authority declared that it would be unjust to single out individual wrongdoers for punishment; that the bankers’ actions around the financial crisis were the product of a pervasive culture; and that a one-off symbolic punishment would be of little significance.

Government 28

Government Culture Nonprofit Financial 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2018

From fast cars and expensive watches to unique clothes and the latest gadgets, consumers use products to signal that they are more affluent, powerful, creative, or hip than others. We hypothesized that these differences in product preferences might emerge because of different beliefs about social hierarchies.

Retail 28

Retail Study Productivity Survey 28