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If Your Boss Thinks You're Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBut watch out if your boss is a hard grader. -
Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs
Global Business Digital ArticleSix steps business leaders can take right now. -
Find the Coaching in Criticism
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFeedback is crucial--but almost everyone, from new hires to C-suite executives, struggles with receiving it. The authors, who have spent 20 years working... -
Growing by Cutting SKUs at Clorox
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleNew products don't always mean increased profits. At Clorox, a formal process for determining which products to cut has boosted SKU sales and margins. -
Sensitivity Can Be a Superpower at Work
Managing employees Digital ArticleHere are the tools managers need to properly supervise, nurture, and retain their sensitive employees. -
Hidden Good News About CEO Dismissals
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFour times more CEOs are being fired today than in 1995, a Booz Allen Hamilton study finds. That's good news. It's not that CEOs are being pressured to... -
How to Conduct Motivating Performance Reviews When Business Is Down
Managing people Digital ArticleWhat can you do to inspire your team in the absence of typical incentives like raises and promotions? -
Will You Help or Heave Your Underperformers?
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Find Success Your Own Way
Robert Steven Kaplan, author of "What You're Really Meant to Do," explains how to reach your unique potential. -
Best-Laid Incentive Plans (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleHiram Phillips couldn't have been in better spirits. The CFO and chief administrative officer of Rainbarrel Products, a diversified consumer-durables... -
Why COOs Should Think Like Behavioral Economists
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe job is about shaping people's choices. -
The Art of Evidence-Based Medicine
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleA one-size-fits-all approach isn’t good for patients. -
Designing Jobs Right
Talent management SpotlightMake them challenging—but don’t overdo it. -
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe knock on most CEOs is that their focus is too myopic--that they're fixated on achieving short-term goals to increase their pay. If you studied results... -
Appraisal of What Performance?
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleCurrent dissatisfactions with appraisal systems will continue until they are revised to accommodate the “how” as well as the “what” in performance. -
Why Don’t Women Self-Promote As Much As Men?
Gender ResearchResearch shows it’s not as simple as a lack of confidence. -
Research: Why Gender Bias Persists, Even When Organizations Try to Curb It
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIn one company, managers were able to reduce gendered descriptions of employee traits and behaviors - but not how they valued and rewarded them. -
What to Do When You Don’t Trust Your Employee
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleFive steps to take if you’re in this uncomfortable situation. -
The Feedback Fallacy
Feedback Magazine ArticleFor years, managers have been encouraged to praise and constructively criticize just about everything their employees do. But there are better ways to help employees thrive and excel. -
Research Explores How "Fresh Starts" Affect Our Motivation at Work
Organizational Development ResearchThey help low performers but hurt high performers.
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Bennett, Strang & Farris
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of... -
Managing Performance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Encourages managers to think critically about how to prepare for and give a performance appraisal interview. Presents frameworks for evaluating subordinates'... -
Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Reviews Josie Esquivel's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, and organizational practices she has developed... -
Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (A): Disruptive Innovation in Major League Baseball
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Billy Beane and the Oakland A's have 'changed the game' in terms of talent identification, analytics, and player investment in Major League Baseball (MLB).... -
Peer Feedback Assignment
Communication Case Study11.95View Details The Peer Feedback Assignment is based on the fact that giving feedback is an essential managerial communication skill. The assignment suggests guidelines... -
Dr. Tom Mihaljevic and Cleveland Clinic
Management Case Study11.95View Details In December 2022, Dr. Tomislav ("Tom") Mihaljevic, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic, was reflecting on the last few years at the hospital, marked... -
Sears Auto Centers (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Purity Steel Corporation, 2012
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Managers introduce a new performance evaluation system based on sales growth and return-on-investment (ROI). A branch manager wonders whether his new... -
Bark Gift Shop Ltd.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a setting in which the CFO of Bark Gift Shop Ltd., a gift items retailer, discovers an undesired pattern in the performance data suggesting... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details In September 2022, Price and his team evaluated the past year's strategies to increase Method App adoption and discussed new initiatives to consider. -
Strictly Business: Janice Greer's Leadership Challenge in Japan
Management Case Study11.95View Details Janice Greer works for NVX Pharmaceuticals, a US firm with increasing global operations. Not long after Greer's promotion to country head for Japan, their... -
360 Feedback
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In most organizations, the employee appraisal process causes more tension than any other aspect of personnel management. Despite the good intentions behind... -
Wendy Peterson
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Wendy Peterson was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales at the Plano, Texas, office of AccountBack, an accounting software and services company.... -
Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (B): Advanced Metrics Beyond Baseball
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Billy Beane and the Oakland A's have 'changed the game' in terms of talent identification, analytics, and player investment in Major League Baseball (MLB).... -
The Proposed Merit Pay Program: Should the Winners Take All?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Dr. Jeff Foreman, Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department at Carroll State University, had just left a meeting with the Dean of the College and... -
Wolfgang Keller at Konigsbrau-TAK (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This is the supplement to "Wolfgang Keller at Königsbräu-TAK (A)." This case is a modernized revision of the popular case "Wolfgang Keller at Königsbräu-Hellas... -
ATH Technologies (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. -
Clean Sweep, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a vacuum cleaner manufacturer whose program for operational improvement includes the development of performance measures. Management... -
Note on Workplace Psychology Theories
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Several psychological theories can help explain organizational behaviour, but many students are not exposed to the benefits that these types of concepts...
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Bennett, Strang & Farris
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of... -
Managing Performance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Encourages managers to think critically about how to prepare for and give a performance appraisal interview. Presents frameworks for evaluating subordinates'... -
Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Reviews Josie Esquivel's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, and organizational practices she has developed... -
If Your Boss Thinks You're Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBut watch out if your boss is a hard grader. -
Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (A): Disruptive Innovation in Major League Baseball
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Billy Beane and the Oakland A's have 'changed the game' in terms of talent identification, analytics, and player investment in Major League Baseball (MLB).... -
Peer Feedback Assignment
Communication Case Study11.95View Details The Peer Feedback Assignment is based on the fact that giving feedback is an essential managerial communication skill. The assignment suggests guidelines... -
Dr. Tom Mihaljevic and Cleveland Clinic
Management Case Study11.95View Details In December 2022, Dr. Tomislav ("Tom") Mihaljevic, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic, was reflecting on the last few years at the hospital, marked... -
Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs
Global Business Digital ArticleSix steps business leaders can take right now. -
Find the Coaching in Criticism
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFeedback is crucial--but almost everyone, from new hires to C-suite executives, struggles with receiving it. The authors, who have spent 20 years working...