The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While it can sometimes feel as though the world is cut-throat and dog-eat-dog, research from the University of Sydney suggests that cooperation is something inbuilt within us all. Compliance with small requests is cross-culturally shared, with requests being complied with seven times more often than they are declined, ignored, or both.

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Compliance Cooper Analysis Diversity 120

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment. Control styles of management yield conformity and compliance, and this worked well for a long time. Or, we can move towards a new horizon.

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Altman Team Succession Leadership 136

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

HR Digest

AUGUST 21, 2023

Happy and cheerful tunes have been found to boost performance, focus, and even encourage more cooperative behavior among employees. Consider Licensing Requirements Before implementing music in the workplace, it’s important to ensure compliance with music licensing regulations.

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Productivity Products IAS Succession 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. Dropping a diversity initiative onto these types of workplaces is unlikely to create meaningful change.

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Over the past four decades, social psychologists, behavioral economists, and negotiation theorists have catalogued a wide variety of ways in which information can be communicated more effectively to nudge others towards collaboration and compliance.

Strategy 9

Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Cooperative and helping behaviors go down by over 80%. But compliance is not the same as collaboration. The data clearly demonstrate that uncontrolled virtual distance can result in unintended and unwanted effects. For example when virtual distance is relatively high: Innovative behaviors fall by over 90%. Trust declines by over 80%.

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Learning-by-Doing Project Examples Tools 8