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Dealing with Black Swan Events : An Interview with Vijay Mahajan, Founder and CEO, Basix

Ashta, Arvind - 2016

Social innovations create social change or disruptions in society. These disruptions can be both positive and negative. Social perceptions on the benefits as well as the costs of change may influence society's reaction to the social innovation. A change in social perception may trigger Black...

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How do managers form their expectations about working from home? : survey experiments on the perception of productivity

Erdsiek, Daniel - 2023

analyse whether managers’ beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH affect their adoption decisions. Exploiting exogenous … variation in managers’ information set, we find that managers update their beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH when … increases managers’ willingness to adopt or intensify WFH policies. Combining our main survey experiment with two follow …

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How Do Managers Form Their Expectations About Working From Home? Survey Experiments on the Perception of Productivity

Erdsiek, Daniel; Rost, Vincent - 2023

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From Crisis to Norm : Remote Work Trends and Employee Engagement Across Industries, Occupations, and Geography

Makridis, Christos A.; Schloetzer, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a survey of nearly 360,000 workers conducted from May 2020 through December 2023 to characterize shifts in remote work across time, industry, occupation, and geography, and examine the evolving relationship between remote work and employee engagement. We find remarkable stability in the...

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Essential Jobs, Remote Work and Digital Surveillance : Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic Panopticon

Aloisi, Antonio; De Stefano, Valerio - 2021

COVID-19-induced digital surveillance has ballooned in an unprecedented fashion, causing a reconfiguration of power relationships in professional settings. This article critically concentrates on the interplay between technology-enabled intrusive monitoring and the managerial prerogatives...

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Working from Home and Management Controls

Flassak, Konstantin; Haag, Julia Katharina; Hofmann, … - 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic and the corresponding shift toward working from home (WFH) amplifies control problems within organizations and poses severe challenges for management control as employees’ tasks are difficult to observe under WFH conditions. We examine how the physically distant working...

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Analyzing the impact of the shift to remote work mode on middle managers' well-being in the pandemic

Sandoval-Reyes, Juan; Revuelto-Taboada, Lorenzo; … - In: European research on management and business economics 29 (2023) 2, pp. 1-10

The shift to remote work mode significantly impacts the way people work, especially middle managers, who play a … terms of operations and organizational culture. Based on the responses of 200 managers from five Latin American countries …

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Teleworking : Benefits and Pitfalls as Perceived by Professionals and Managers

Baruch, Yehuda - 2001

This study explores how teleworking is perceived by employees and highlights its possible benefits and pitfalls. Interviews with sixty-two teleworkers in five UK organisations provide a comprehensive view on this mode of work. In particular the study examines teleworking impact on effectiveness,...

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'An Understanding Heart to Judge Your People' : The View of Successful Leadership in the Hebrew Bible

Friedman, Hershey H.; Friedman, Linda Weiser; … - 2013

The Bible is replete with stories of leaders, some successful and some unsuccessful. This paper examines the characteristics and behaviors of successful Biblical leaders and demonstrates how leaders of today should behave if they desire to be effective. The predominant characteristics of the...

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Drivers of Team Performance : What Do We Know and What Have We Still to Learn?

Stock, Ruth - 2015

The investigation of drivers of team performance has become the main issue of numerous publications in the last decades. Researchers of different disciplines in business administration (especially organization theory, marketing research, and human resources management) and psychology have been...

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