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Don’t Try to Be the “Fun Boss” — and Other Lessons in Ethical Leadership

Harvard Business

We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., We combined data across these 30 independent studies to examine the relationship between personality and ethical leadership across a range of different settings and situations. Creating an Ethical Workplace.

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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

The project involves the creation of a web-based virtual interviewing platform and the execution of two data collection efforts between 2020 and 2022. Google Docs and sheets) Maintain integrity of confidential data (e.g., Google Docs and sheets) Maintain integrity of confidential data (e.g.,

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business

CEB research says that when we take into account how much money organizations are investing in their performance appraisal technology and how much time managers are spending to evaluate their employees, on average U.S. organizations spend $3,000 per year, per employee.

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Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly

Harvard Business

Then we asked a direct report of each of the managers about their bosses’ fairness towards them, and we had a second direct report assess the boss’ task performance. Using these three independent data sources, we found that bosses with heavier (vs.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

It requires guidance, support, and accountability, fostering growth, development, and time-management. Managers only learn to become master coaches through on-going training, hard work, diligence, and persistence. Use feedback and data to refine your coaching approach. Anybody can coach poorly.

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The Right Way to Use the Wisdom of Crowds

Harvard Business

We also asked participants how intelligent or ethical they perceived the other person to be, based on their recommendation. Our data suggest the problem is that people interpret disagreement in a self-serving way, as signaling that their estimate is right and the other party is wrong. We ran a final study to test this interpretation.

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