Business schools recognise internationalism as the ticket to bright future
As it becomes increasingly clear that the leaders of tomorrow will need to have experience working with international markets, Canadian MBA programs are heeding the call to integrate international exposure into their curriculum.
Professor Alfred Jaeger, Academic Director of the MBA program, comments on how the Faculty has made this a top priority.
Suzanne Gagnon awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant
Suzanne Gagnon, Assistant Professor in Organizational Behaviour, was recently awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant.
Title: “International Research Workshop on Collective Leadership: Empirical Findings”, May 1st – 3rd, 2018
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Distances in Organization Workshop: May 11-12, 2018
The “Distances in Organizations” workshop will be hosted by 鶹AV’s Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal on May 11-12, 2018.
Freedom of expression makes for happier workplaces
According to new research conducted by Desautels Professor Patricia Hewlin, employees who conform to workplace values that they do not necessarily believe in are more likely to be less engaged at work, or even burn out.
“Managers should encourage employees to voice their opinions without fear of repercussions.
Congratulations to Faculty Award recipients
The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates the following individuals who are the latest to be granted a Faculty Award for the period of September 1, 2017-August 31, 2020. The Faculty Awards recognise demonstrated research achievement and encourage the pursuance of future academic endeavors.
Shifting metaphors, shifting mindsets: Using music to change the key of conflict
Authors: Linda M.Ippolito and Nancy J. Adler
Publication: Journal of Business Research, Forthcoming
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Twenty-First Century Leadership: A Return to Beauty
Authors: Nancy J. Adler and Andre L. Delbecq
Publication: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2018
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Diversity of thought is an asset for companies
Research by Desautels professor Patricia Hewlin finds that employees often feel pressured to conform to company values to succeed at work, which, ultimately, compromises company performance and employee well-being.
This is especially the case when managers act with a strong sense of integrity. Prof. Hewlin’s research suggests that companies must instead encourage employees to voice their opinions without fear of repercussion.
To Thine Own Self Be True? Facades of Conformity, Values Incongruence, and the Moderating Impact of Leader Integrity
Authors: Patricia Faison Hewlin, Tracy L. Dumas and Meredith Flowers Burnett
Publication: Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, February 2017
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When employees feel that their values do not match those of the organization, they often respond by pretending to fit in. We examine how leader integrity influences the tendency to create facades of conformity, proposing that employees will actually fake more when leaders are principled. In a laboratory experiment (Study 1), undergraduate students whose values ostensibly differed from those of other discussion group members and the university administration created more facades when they perceived the discussion group leader as having high integrity. A two-wave survey of employed adults (Study 2) replicated the moderation effect and also revealed negative effects of facade creation on work engagement. In both studies, our results indicate that, ironically, when leader integrity is high, the tendency to create facades of conformity in response to low values congruence is magnified. Additionally, our findings reveal that positive attributes in leaders may not always result in positive responses from followers. The results from our study also show that facades of conformity may serve as a partial explanatory mechanism in the relationship between values congruence and employee engagement.
Read full article: Academy of Management Journal
New Marketing Campaign: Who's behind Desautels?
Desautels professors are behind some of the most unique research projects in the worldThis week, we replaced the exterior billboards along the Bronfman building façade. Our new bilingual campaign showcases a diverse selection of change-making students, professors, alumni and 鶹AV Dobson Cup participants.
Desautels Professor named guest editor of major business journal
Desautels Professor Patricia Hewlin has been invited to serve as guest editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes’ (OBHDP) “Authenticity at Work” issue. Prof. Hewlin was co-author of a study on leader integrity and worker conformity.
OBHDP is one of the Financial Times’ top-50 business journals, and publishes on organizational behaviour and judgement in business.
How social innovation in universities will bring on a better business model
A recent Huffington Post article talks about how the old credo of “doing well by doing good” is becoming more integral to business, and quotes Desautels Professor Nancy Adler that we can no longer “create financially successful companies and an equitable … sustainable world by simply applying yesterday’s approaches to business.” The piece goes on to describe how the Ashoka U initiative is bringing these next-gen business concepts to colleges
Desautels Professor presents at a major workplace-inequality conference
Over 30 academics from North America and Europe recently gathered at the Society and Organizations Center (SnO) in Paris for the first edition of the HEC Paris Inequality Research Conference.
The talks hit on subjects like why diversity efforts at most organizations fail and how to fix the issue, the differences in advancement speed between women and men, female tokenism at the board level, and how mental health issues can affect wages.
Alfred Jaeger, Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour wins Outstanding Paper
Professor Alfred Jaeger's paper entitled "Institution building and institutional voids: Can Poland’s experience inform Russia and Brazil?", which was published in the International Journal of Emerging Markets with co-authors S. M. Puffer and D. J.
Institution building and institutional voids: Can Poland’s experience inform Russia and Brazil?
Authors: Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J McCarthy and Alfred M Jaeger
Publication: International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2016
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