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shorts.005 | Cycle of Success Spiral

LDRLB

But I love the conclusion the study suggests about the link between employee performance and customer loyalty – a major principle of the Service-Profit Chain. We found that service climate and customer loyalty seem to have these positive reciprocal relationships. (p.1224). Our results follow this line. Simmons, Ph.D. Simmons, Ph.D.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

When a widening gulf in salaries and benefits between the top and bottom ranks of an organization exceeds acceptable bounds, employees are less likely to feel a need to work harder, let alone possess the sense of loyalty, responsibility and trust needed to help solve a company’s most pressing challenges.

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How to Discover Your Organization’s Deep Purpose

Skip Prichard

Ranjay Gulati is the former head of the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. The third is reputational : Deep purpose engenders loyalty and trust among customers and others. I’m a passionate believer in purpose. Whether personal or corporate, purpose fuels us in a way that is difficult to describe.

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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

You will learn new rules for decision making and organizational behavior. A random act of kindness in someone’s time of need can change the course of a life and create an unexpected friendship or loyalty. Failure is the best teacher in an organization. Talk about failures openly and objectively. Analyze what went wrong.

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Do Older Workers Have Bad Work Attitudes?

LDRLB

organizational commitment, loyalty) attitudes. They also found that the correlation between age and job attitudes was “stronger for older workers with longer organizational tenure, minority older workers, and older workers without a college education” (p. Age affected 27 of the 35 task-based (e.g. Simmons, Ph.D.

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0508 | Orly Lobel: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I’m writing a few articles right now in collaboration with people actually around the world, some of them are European and Israeli, about behavioral economics and its implications, all the implications that come from behavioral economic studies to law and policy and also just organizational behavior and how firms do business.

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Personality Tests Can Help Balance a Team

Harvard Business Review

Darwinian theories of organizational behavior support Freud’s view, highlighting the fundamental tension between “getting ahead” and “getting along” in the workplace. We are the most social species on earth — but also inherently selfish.

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