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The way a company approaches downsizing can make or break its performance. Using 355 undergraduates as their sample, the authors randomly assigned five-person teams to work on military-based command-and-control simulations. The teams’ performance was gauged first at full strength in control groups and then after one of three separate downsizing approaches was applied to the same groups.

The first approach was to maintain the hierarchy, eliminating … [ Read more ]

Author: D. Scott DeRue | Source: “How Different Team Downsizing Approaches Influence Team-Level Adaptation and Performance” | Original Publication: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Establish a regular review process for yourself, your team, and your organization to reflect on the reasons for both your failures and successes. This is a fundamental and critical component of learning. Based on the input of everyone involved, some organizations produce substantial documents or booklets on “lessons learned” following a major new product, service, or business launch.

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Improvement

In 1984, Michael Hilti, then CEO and now Chairman of the Supervisory Board, launched an initiative designed to enhance his managers’ ability to commit deeply to projects. “I want our managers to take responsibility for what they do”, he said. “One of the central conditions for this is that they love what they do. The second is that they are aware that they have choices. … [ Read more ]

Author: Heike Bruch | Source: “Willpower – the heart of the matter” | Original Publication: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

As Jerome Mattern, chairman of the compensation and benefits committee at the Society for Human Resource Management, explains, “A vacation donation policy is a kind way for employees to engage in social camaraderie.” Such a program allows workers to donate vacation hours to a common “bank,” from which employees who are unable to work due to personal illness or crisis may draw. Employees in need … [ Read more ]

Author: Vadim Liberman | Source: “Manager’s Tool Kit” | Original Publication: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior