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MARCH 19, 2024

Learning the lessons While the Great Resignation appears to be ending, researchers from Vienna’s Complexity Science Hub are keen for us to learn the lessons of the period. In a recent study , they highlight some of the key forces behind the trend to help us provide better work in the future.

Stress 112

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This mistake might help us make chatbots better and also tell us how people understand language. “That some of the large language models perform as well as they do suggests that they capture something important that the simpler models are missing,” the researchers explain.

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System Learning-by-Doing Participative Process 104

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2024

This will help British businesses and schools feel confident about using AI. A new report from the University of Cambridge suggests that the UK government should give tax breaks to companies that create AI products and services or use AI in their work. The aim is to make the UK more productive.

Supply Chain 107

Supply Chain Software Incentives Report 107

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

This trade-off can be pretty straightforward when we’re making it for ourselves, but when generative AI tools are deployed at scale, research from the Kellogg School suggests there are broader, more societally important consequences. Retaining novelty There are ways to lessen the problems AI can cause in society, say the researchers.

Content 105

Content Tools Long-term Diversity 105

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 12, 2024

Feedback is nearly always seen as a positive thing in the workplace, but research from the University of Konstanz reminds us that undue praise can create a sense of false pride in employees. The researchers explored how managers’ feedback affected how employees behaved toward one another.

Positioning 106

Positioning Comparison Participative Motivation 106

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 24, 2024

This study gives us new ideas about how to make sure kids don’t unfairly judge people with less money. The research helps us see how kids’ ideas about money can change, and it suggests ways to make sure they don’t have unfair opinions about people who don’t have as much.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 7, 2024

The researchers combined a large online survey with data tracking which news websites participants visited a month before the study. These findings challenge common ideas about how polarized Americans’ media habits are and make us question the use of survey data when studying the impact of political media.

Politics 98

Politics Media Survey Participative 98

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2024

Research from ETH Zurich suggests that a short, 15-minute reflection exercise is often all it takes to regain that sense of self-belief and subsequently increase the chances of landing a new job. This increases their chances of finding a job,” the researchers explain. The results were clear and surprising to the researchers.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. Her research also demonstrates that EI competencies improve the more you use them. Wiens also discovered during her research that people with burnout immunity have a special relationship with stress.

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Stress How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 82

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 16, 2024

Controversial research that breaks with conventions may be seen as necessary to move society on, but research from the University of Pennsylvania reminds us that it might also put people on the defensive. And those more likely to overestimate harms tended to be more supportive of censoring scientific research.”

Politics 96

Politics Participative Innovation 96

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

New research from the University of Bristol reminds us, however, that our views on the topic are far from uniform, and are instead heavily linked with our political views. The researchers explain that people with obesity experience a wide range of discrimination and shaming in their lives.

Politics 96

Politics Influence Survey Education 96

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

A recent study conducted by the University of Rochester sheds light on the increasing ideological polarization evident in news stories about domestic politics and social issues. The researchers employed machine learning techniques to analyze a vast collection of 1.8

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Media Politics Analysis Sample 109

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 3, 2024

That working under a discriminatory boss is harmful to us is probably self-evident, but research from Oklahoma State University reminds us that it can also be harmful even if the discrimination works in our favor. These experiments aimed to study how people acted when they thought there was bias at play in their workplace.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that a recent study from the University of British Columbia finds that the public often has unfair stereotypes about the financial skills of homeless people. The researchers found that they spent nearly 100 fewer days homeless while also boosting their savings.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 28, 2024

It’s a concept explored in recent research from Brigham Young University. “Organizational ghosts can manifest themselves in a number of different ways,” the researchers explain. “People in meetings were always talking about how they should try to do things the way Sam would have,” the researchers explain.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Efforts to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions have worked to some extent, but a new study by UCL researchers suggests that we need stricter rules to meet the temperature goals set in the Paris Agreement. The Agreement wants us to limit global warming to only 1.5 Between 2000 and 2010, emissions went up by 2.3%

Energy 97

Energy Policies Globalization Goal 97

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Research from the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business explores how managers can encourage employees to be more open with their ideas. “If the supervisor said, ‘Good luck, you’re on your own with this,’ that led to the most overload and the most regret,” the researchers explain.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2024

Research from Ohio State University shows that this doesn’t have to be this way, however. It is how you felt about the failures, and whether you thought they led to something better for you,” the researchers explain. That would harm her self-esteem,” the researchers say.

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Career Definition Long-term Survey 103

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2024

Research from NUS Business School explored how job seekers feel about the role AI might be playing in their application. The researchers quizzed around 1,000 people who had been recruited via Mechanical Turk. They each underwent four scenario experiments to understand how they perceive the use of AI in the recruitment process.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

The researchers suggest that this difference might be because men worry more about how they appear to others. In today’s world, people regularly post things online, so this new study helps us understand how we share information in the digital age and what the outcomes of sharing can be.

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Information Media Participative Content 108

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

A recent study co-authored by a researcher from the University at Buffalo reveals that failing to effectively communicate during problem-solving may actually have advantages for groups lacking in diversity. The impact of miscommunication on the search for a solution is heavily influenced by team dynamics and other contextual factors.

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Diversity Team Cooper Objective 106

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2024

New research from BerkeleyHaas looked at whether giving people incentives to write online reviews can help sellers. This research has given us a new perspective on how reviews affect sales and profits. The researchers teamed up with Airbnb to carry out a large and costly experiment.

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Review Incentives Company Participative 106

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2024

The researchers assessed the efficacy of the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), which aims to train people in entrepreneurship in the hope that it will help lift them out of poverty. “They would tell us, ‘If God wanted me to be rich, then I would be rich.’

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Entrepreneur Participative Training Energy 104

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

After all, the more people know about their business, the more likely it is to grow. Research from Iowa State University highlights that things aren’t so straightforward in developing countries, however, as greater visibility might make entrepreneurs more likely to be victims of crime. ” . ”

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Banking Survey Participative 99

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Research from Rutgers University suggests that these efforts may have unintended consequences, however, as managers who do strongly identify with their organization are less likely to back any diversity initiatives as they believe that inequality is unlikely to exist. This can make discussions about diversity more productive.

Diversity 96

Diversity Resistance Self-aware Survey 96

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New research from Queen Mary, University of London, shows that the M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) market plays a crucial role in figuring out how much technology is worth. This study explains that when companies merge or buy each other, they share important information about the value of their technology.

Supply Chain 94

Supply Chain Technology Innovation Industry 94

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2024

Wearing special glasses that tracked their eye movements, they had to rank a bunch of items by how useful they’d be for survival. The researchers paid close attention to how often the participants glanced at each other’s eyes and mouths. This study opens up some interesting paths for future research. of the time.”

Participative 93

Participative Follow-up Team Innovation 93

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Vagueness is often a characteristic of public life, but research from James Cook University shows that it’s unlikely to help you win friends or influence people. “It’s about being aware of the simultaneous goals we have in communication and prioritizing what’s the best approach,” the authors conclude.

Influence 97

Influence Conflict of Interest Reputation Class 97

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Research from Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículasm, in Lisbon, highlights the scale of the problem. “Past research has shown that miscalibrations in the internal representation of accuracy can have severe consequences but how to gauge these miscalibrations is far from trivial.”

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 9, 2024

CMI partnered with Timewise to conduct research, delving into hybrid working dynamics. The research highlights the crucial role that management skills play in overcoming the obstacles to making hybrid work and the impact of targeted training.

Team 136

Team Self-aware Comparison Workshop 136

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2024

Biased suggestions “Everything you’re consuming online is filtered through some kind of recommendation system,” the researchers explain, “and what we’re interested in understanding is whether there are subtle biases in the types of information that are presented to different people and how this affects behavior.”

Advertising 107

Advertising Operations Information Follow-up 107

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Recent research from the University of Cambridge examines how 100 of the world’s biggest companies are trying to make the environment healthier. Big companies have the money and resources to do this on a large scale, but the study shows that most of their projects don’t tell us if they are making any real difference.

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Environment Project Report Resources 100

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Investment in tech New research from the University of Notre Dame highlights something important: companies need to invest in technology. This investment helps them make smart decisions about working capital, which improves how well they do overall. The research looked at 1,054 American manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2013. .

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2024

The way bosses feel can really impact us. Think about when a big boss gets super excited in a meeting, or when a team leader seems really annoyed during a team talk. Prolonged impact A recent study from LSE shows that how a boss feels at the start of the day can affect how the rest of us feel and work all day.

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Positioning Team Examples Innovation 128

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The implications of these findings underscore substantial societal benefits that can be attained through a reevaluation of systems and enhanced user involvement in their developmental processes, as indicated by the researchers. Part of the solution may be to shield us from knowing that the computer is working to solve a problem.

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Participative System Diversity Survey 109

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 6, 2023

A recent paper from Tufts highlights how refugees struggle to grasp the dynamics of race in the US and how these challenges affect their efforts to integrate into their new homes. “We also want to work with refugee communities to help them—and us—learn about race in America. ” the researchers explain.

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Participative Education Media Report 102

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In an article earlier this year I wrote about research highlighting how we often underestimate the desire of others to receive constructive feedback. Overall, our research found that people consistently underestimate others’ desire for feedback, which can have harmful results for would-be feedback recipients.”. Reaching out.

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