Theresa W. Welbourne (CEO) shares that growth and success increase energy, and even if the growth is small or even if the efforts to grow your organization are less than you would like to see, at least some movement will energize your leaders and employees.
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Taking Stock: A Review of More Than Twenty Years of Research on Empowerment at Work
Gretchen Spreitzer (University of Michigan) argues that to be successful in today’s global business environment, companies need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee, from front line workers to the top level managers in the executive suite.
The Impact of Social Capital on the Development of Transactive Memories Multilevel Group Knowledge Systems
In this paper by Yu Connie Yuan (Cornell University), Peter Monge, and Janet Fulk, a multilevel, multi-theoretical model of transactive memory theory was developed by integrating the emergence model with social capital theories.
The Roles of Engagement
Theresa M. Welbourne (eePulse) asks the questions “Are your employees engaged in your organization? Do they focus on the non-core job behaviors that make for a successful firm? ”
Building Trust: Effective Multi-Cultural Communication Process in Virtual Teams
Cristina B. Gibson and Jennifer A. Manuel share that collective trust is a crucial element of virtual team functioning. Collective trust can be defined as a shared psychological state in a team that is characterized by an acceptance of vulnerability based on expectations of intentions or behaviors of others within the team.
Meeting the Performance Challenge: Calculating ROI for Virtual Teams
A. Levenson and S. Cohen explain that virtual teams are all the rage these days. The reasons for their prevalence are well known. But when does it make sense to operate virtually versus face-to-face (FTF)?
Organizing for High Performance: Employee Involvement, TQM, Reengineering, and Knowledge Management in the Fortune 1000
Edward E. Lawler III , Susan Albers Mohrman , and George Benson discuss how worldwide competition, the rapid expansion of the Internet, and the uncertainty of today’s economic climate are among the myriad forces testing the traditional approaches to management.
Resolving Communication Dilemmas in Database-Mediated Collaboration
Michael E. Kalman, Peter Monge, Janet Fulk, and Rebecca Heino discuss how in organizational settings, a communication dilemma exists whenever the interests of a collective (i.e., team, organization, interorganizational alliance) demand that people share privately held information but their individual interests instead motivate them to withhold it.
Fostering Intranet Knowledge-Sharing: An Integration of Transactive Memory and Public Goods Approaches
Andrea Hollingshead, Janet Fulk, and Peter Monge discuss how transactive memory theory is useful for predicting how organizational members use intranets to acquire, store and retrieve knowledge. Public Goods Theory is useful for predicting whom, how much, and when members will contribute and retrieve knowledge on intranets.
Cross-Cultural Quality Improvement: Should the Focus Depend on Cultural Characteristics and Team Orientation?
In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, the hypothesis that quality improvement efforts should be congruent with the level of field independence in a given cultural context and corresponding team quality orientations was examined.
What Stimulates Teams to Engage in Learning Behavior? The Influence of Composition and Context
This paper by Cristina B. Gibson and Freek Vermeulen examines team learning behavior; a set of actions that teams engage in to improve their outcomes.
The Impact of Time Perspective on Knowledge Creation in Teams
This paper by Mary J. Waller, Cristina B. Gibson, and Mason A. Carpenter focuses on the impact of individuals’ time perspectives on team knowledge creation. Various configurations of time perspective among team members are likely to exert significant but unacknowledged influences on teams’ knowledge creation efforts.