Originally published on LinkedIn Last week you were managing a traditional team, the kind where everyone works together in the same building. Today you’re managing a virtual team. This is no time for feel-good bullshit, so here’s the hard truth: this is going to be very, very tough. The more […]
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Gordon Schmidt on the Virtual Future of Leadership
In this episode, Dr. Gordon Schmidt discusses how virtual work and the gig economy may change how we look at leadership, team cohesion, and organizational identification. Show Links Follow Gordon on Twitter: @iopsychology The Future of Leadership is Virtual Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and Other Compensated Crowdsourcing Sites Virtual Leadership: An […]
Implicit Quota on Women in Top Management
Does having a woman in a top management position for a company make it easier or harder for a other women to attain a top management position in that same company? We apply our method to the underrepresentation of women in the top management of S&P 1,500 firms. Although extant […]
One Simple (Research-Based) Trick to Reduce Sexual Harassment?
“In our experiment, 618 online study participants in the US read a brief statement from a fictional company about the results of a sexual harassment survey taken by its employees. For some participants, the statement included a quote from the CEO emphasizing the severity of the problem, such as: ‘The […]
Image-Based Vision Statements
Which of these visions is more inspiring? “I hope that someday we will achieve full racial equality.” “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” Visions that rely on images to create a mental picture in […]