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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds: In order to value team members, or help them find meaning in their work - that is, contribution to the greater good, to their community or even society - you don’t need to start a formal organizational initiative. The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of workplace conditions on individual productivity.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a paper published in 2009 , Alex Haynes and colleagues examined the use and effectiveness of checklists in eight hospitals in eight cities in the Unites States.