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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

Direct link to the application and formal job ad: [link] As part of a recently-funded US National Science Foundation project in which we will be building an online virtual interviewing platform, my laboratory will be hiring a part-time project manager with work to do for roughly the next two years.

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

Harvard Business

Our research suggests that key personality characteristics predict unethical leadership behavior. We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., Creating an Ethical Workplace. Over time, we become more comfortable in our surroundings and we stop paying attention to our reputations.

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

Harvard Business

Fair managers can reap big dividends. Extensive research finds that employees who feel fairly treated are better performers, helpful to colleagues, more committed to their workgroups and the organization, and less likely to steal or be rude to others. Gary Burchell/Getty Images. Acting fairly is not always easy.

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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. We call those temporal comparison evaluations.

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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business

Jill should have spent much more time managing up. She should have better managed decision makers, her boss, her image, and her own career. Managing a career in these ways is critical, but surprisingly few people do it. So why wasn’t Jill spending more time managing up, especially if it was in her own self-interest?

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it.

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The Right Way to Use the Wisdom of Crowds

Harvard Business

Management teams are responsible for making sense of complex questions. But our research identifies a hidden cost to this approach. In our research we find another factor that seems to impact how we evaluate other people’s opinions: when someone forms his or her own opinion. Paul Taylor/Getty Images.

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