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What Is The Truth About Job Satisfaction?

LDRLB

I’ve been guided by the counsel of a 2006 meta-analysis published in one of our best research journals, The Academy of Management Journal , that found a strong relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and multiple measures of employee effectiveness (job performance, extra-role behaviors , and withdrawal behaviors ).

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Seven Things to Expect From Your Narcissistic Employee

LDRLB

Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior). Bret blogs about leadership and followership at his website Positive Organizational Behavior. He has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Oklahoma State University.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. And LeaderLab at [link]. link] Dan McCarthy Mike – Thanks, I'm honored!

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Front-line versus Top-down

LDRLB

Theories such as Charismatic leadership and Transformational leadership appear to be more about rallying followers to better future using motivating factors (Northouse, 2006). Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources (2nd ed.)New Buckingham, M. New York, NY: Free Press. and Blanchard, K. Northouse, P.

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The Business Case for Reading Novels

Harvard Business Review

In one of Oatley and Mar's studies in 2006 , 94 subjects were asked to guess the emotional state of a person from a photograph of their eyes. It turns out that when Henry James, more than a century ago, defended the value of fiction by saying that "a novel is a direct impression of life," he was more right than he knew.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business Review

It’s much more than just an “episodic moment” of frustration or “a particularly gruesome work project” that depletes you, says Gianpiero Petriglieri, associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. The festival was founded nearly 50 years ago but hadn’t been held since 2006.

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