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The Oxford Review Blog – Articles, posts and research briefings about Organisational Development, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Management, Leadership.
The Oxford Review Blog – Articles, posts and research briefings about Organisational Development, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Management, Leadership.
How to manage people with a boring job How many times have you heard someone say “I hate my job”? When you look at it this is often down to the fact that they have one of the increasing numbers of boring jobs. In this article, which follows on from my last post How to manage […]
Read moreManaging people who have a boring job There has been a lot of previous research into how boredom impacts productivity in a wide range of settings. Virtually all the studies found, as you would probably expect, that when someone is bored they tend to make more mistakes and become increasingly inattentive to their work. As […]
Read moreThere is nothing more powerful or impactful than when you go to the doctors for example, and she or he says something like “The latest research on this says that….”. Professionals at the top of their game and who can talk with ease about the latest research findings or some new thinking about a topic […]
Read moreThe Step-by-Step Guide to How Unethical Behaviour in the Workplace Develops In the the last of my three part series on how to predict unethical behaviour in the workplace develops. Part One – How to predict unethical behaviour Part Two – Moral disengagement: How it predicts unethical behaviour To wrap up this research briefing today I will look […]
Read moreMoral disengagement: How to know if someone is going to act unethically In my last article How to predict unethical behaviour I looked at research that showed: The 2 primary predictors of unethical behaviour, and The 3 precursors of moral disengagement Today we are going to have a look at what the research says about the actual process […]
Read moreSomeone is analysing your every move Someone is going to rain on your parade – if you let them and Why your organisation is likely to lose out to a Chinese one… This morning I reviewed a paper for our members that has just been published by a Chinese academic. Now obviously that in and of […]
Read moreHow to predict unethical behaviour There are the steps people take before they engage in unethical behaviour and if you know the signs, you can predict it happening. It is better to see the warning signs and take action than wait for it to occur. This is the first of three posts in which I will review […]
Read moreHR create drag v culture change through HR Sometimes, in fact frequently, when I look at organisations about to embark on change or who are agile and under constant change and flow a number of functions stand out as potential drag to the change. One of these is the HR function. Hr can be seen from the […]
Read moreHow management can prevent the downside of change It has been found through a series of studies that staff cutbacks, particularly in service industries, invariably have a negative impact on frontline employees’ ability to interact successfully with customers. For example over nine years in the US healthcare industry, the number of patient interactions per employee […]
Read moreWhat is evidence-based decision-making? It may not be what you think? The counter-intuitive side of evidence-based practice. Opinion-based decisions When people make decisions about things on a daily basis, for example, what eat or what to wear, they usually do so based on their own opinions, likes, dislikes, personal taste, habits and a range of other […]
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