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How can organisations adopt fit-for-purpose cultures?

Organisations should follow a four-stage model for creating functional cultures that includes analysing different "environmental" changes, says a study co-authored by Yeun Joon Kim of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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2023

Boss Class Podcast from the Economist | 30 October 2023

Testing, testing

Episode three of the Boss Class podcast series on good management explores how to get hiring right.

Business Because | 11 July 2023

Will AI Transform The Business School Classroom? It Already Is

Top business schools reveal how they’re implementing AI to create teaching experiences as we’ve never seen before.

2022

The Naked Scientists Podcast | 29 November 2022

Personality testing: no wrong answers?

Personality tests are increasingly being used as a way to improve efficiency and perceived fairness in recruitment. But are they a shining light of equality and recruitment virtue, or does the unpredictability of human nature mean we could be missing a trick by filtering everyone with a “one size fits all” algorithm.

The Economist | 14 May 2022

The woolliest words in business

Fire-fighting foam starves the flames of oxygen. A handful of overused words have the same deadening effect on people’s ability to think. These are words like “innovation”, “collaboration”, “flexibility”, “purpose” and “sustainability”. They coat consultants’ websites, blanket candidates’ CVs and spray from managers’ mouths. They are anodyne to the point of being useless.

2021

Lead Read Today | 7 December 2021

The Impact of Organisational Identification on Employee Retention

Our findings highlight the importance of understanding the newcomer experience over the milestones of the initial training program, the informal socialisation that occurs immediately afterwards and the initial projects allocated to employees. Leaders who are able to do so may intervene more successfully to enhance the newcomer’s organisational identification and retain them for a longer period.

Life-Sparring Podcast | 3 August 2021

Prof. Elizabeth George & Prof. Prithviraj “Raja” Chattopadhyay – Identity (Re-)Search

With Professor Elizabeth George and Professor Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, this podcast explores nothing less than the eternal question “Who Am I.” Both Elizabeth and Raja have spent large parts of their professional lives researching and teaching what makes organizations tick and run. The social and personal identity of employees is a recurring theme of their research. This almost one-hour-long discussion covers many aspects of Elizabeth’s and Raja’s Identity (Re-)Search.

Lead Read Today | 8 July 2021

Should Leaders Organise Employees on Work Teams by Pay Grade?

Our findings highlight the importance of leaders paying attention to pay grade distribution when deciding on team composition.

2020

Harvard Business Review | 1 March 2020

A Subordinate’s Criticism Makes You More Creative

Yeun Joon Kim of the University of Cambridge and Junha Kim of the Ohio State University conducted a field experiment at a Korean health-food company in which they assessed the top-down, bottom-up, and lateral feedback that product developers received during quarterly performance evaluations.

2019

Forbes | 1 March 2019

Four New Ideas For Giving Feedback That Gets Positive Results

Clear, direct, critical feedback can be important because if people don’t know what they’re doing wrong, how can they fix it? At the same time, this kind of feedback can backfire, making it hard for the feedback to be heard without defensiveness. Fail to give feedback and the problem will continue. Give it the wrong way, and you’ll have a new problem – strained relationships and disgruntled employees – on your hands. This is one of the many paradoxes of great leadership.

2017

The Globe and Mail | 6 April 2017

How Lego can get employees thinking outside the blocks

Some scholars believe that playing with Lego bricks helps kids, and even adults, train creativity skills. Our research suggests that is probably right, PhD candidate Yeun Joon Kim of Rotman says.

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