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shorts.11 | Goal-Setting and Group Performance

LDRLB

The most interesting finding to me was that “egocentric goals (aimed at maximizing individual performance) undermine group performance, whereas groupcentric goals (aimed at maximizing the individual contribution to the group) enhance group performance” (p. and Arends, L. and Arends, L. Full citation: Kleingeld, A.,

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Organizational Dynamics , 35 (2), 150–160. Organizational Culture and Communication , 18 (1), 22–35. Journal of Organizational Behavior , 41 (1), 67–80. Rhetorical Tools in Organizational Culture. link] Williams, P. Deflection and Power in Management. Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243.

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shorts.009 | Servant Leadership and Team Performance

LDRLB

The empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of servant leadership is still underdeveloped but a few new and well done studies are very encouraging. Now a study from the Journal of Applied Psychology shows how servant leadership affects team potency and ultimately team performance through the goal setting process.

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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Nothing around us stays static, so change leadership is a necessity. Change for the sake of change is not good leadership. Change leadership and common good need a tighter intersection. Change leadership and common good create an interesting intersection. Corporate Citizenship and Change Leadership.

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shorts.008 | Does Pay Level Affect Job Satisfaction?

LDRLB

Other things like interesting and autonomous work and leadership that is more relational than transactional are better predictors of job satisfaction. Other things like interesting and autonomous work and leadership that is more relational than transactional are better predictors of job satisfaction. Simmons, Ph.D. Simmons, Ph.D.

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Servant Leadership In The Workplace

LDRLB

Servant leadership is a belief in and practice of “leadership that places the good of those led over the self-interest of the leader, emphasizing leader behaviors that focus on follower development and de-emphasizing glorification of the leader” (Hale and Fields, 2007, p. 115), I’d recommend the following: 1.

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shorts.005 | Cycle of Success Spiral

LDRLB

This post originally appeared on Positive Organizational Behavior. is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), where he teaches courses in organizational behavior, leadership, and personal branding to both undergraduate and MBA students.

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