3 Posts found for Publisher: Ivey Business Journal

An important pillar that underpins Huawei’s customer-driven organizational innovation and design is the creation of the so-called “resource pool.” This has involved Huawei putting all of its top talent into a single, virtual human resource pool. This detaches top talent from functional units and allows them to be deployed and redeployed globally at any time. By breaking the formal ties between top talent and specific … [ Read more ]

Authors: Eden Yin, Peter J. Williamson, Xiaobo Wu | Source: Learning from Huawei’s Superfluidity | Original Publication: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: Huawei

Focus conversations on meaningfulness, choice, competence and progress. Leaders from the top down need to convey the same message—that the organization stands for doing work that matters and doing it well. When approaching any work project, leaders can underline the importance of contribution by focusing discussions on the basic questions in the self-management process:

• What can we do here that is meaningful?
• What creative

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Author: Kenneth W. Thomas | Source: The Four Intrinsic Rewards that Drive Employee Engagement | Original Publication: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Many of us subscribe to the “cockroach theory,” the idea that earnings shortfalls and other problems are like cockroaches: there’s never just one. As a result, stocks commonly sell off more than an earnings miss seemingly warrants. The cockroach theory works because business executives rarely take the vigorous steps necessary to ensure that bad news reaches them. All too often, problems get stuck in the … [ Read more ]

Author: Anne-Marie Fink | Source: Beyond Buy or Sell: What a Business Leader Really Can Learn from an Analyst Report | Original Publication: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior