Why Organizations Care about Employee “Happiness”
“Command-and-control” managers of the past might have scoffed at current business research on happiness. Under their spans-of-control, employees ought to have been happy to have a job from which they...
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Kenexa Career Development Model-Individual Behaviors Part 1 of this post, Women’s Career Development Model – Individual Action in Career Planning and the Contest and Sponsorship Pathways to Advancement...
View ArticleGenes and Neurotransmitters Influence Investment Risk-Taking: Implications...
Camelia Kuhnen Brian Knutson Camelia Kuhnen, then of Stanford with her Stanford colleague Brian Knutson and Vanderbilt’s Gregory Samanez-Larkin posit a small but meaningful genetic basis to risk-averse...
View ArticleAnxiety Undermines Negotiation Performance
Maurice Schweitzer Anxious negotiators make lower first offers, exit earlier, and earn lower profits than less anxious people due to their “low self-efficacy” beliefs, according to Harvard’s Alison...
View ArticleExecutives’ Financial Risk Tolerance Related to Marital Status
Nickolai Roussanov Unmarried executives tend to advocate more aggressive investments in corporate capital expenditures, innovation activity, research and development, and acquisitions, resulting in...
View ArticleDo “Hot” Emotions Lead to Better Decisions?
-*Do people in an agitated emotional state tend to make decisions they later regret? Popular wisdom counsels against making decisions when influenced by “hot emotions” including feeling HALT – Hungry,...
View ArticleDoes Music Increase Risk-Taking, Ethical Lapses?
John Dryden “What passion cannot Music raise and quell?” asked English poet, playwright, and critic John Dryden in A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687. More recently, researchers have identified that...
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