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October 10, 2019
Laura Morgan Roberts co-authored a Harvard Business Review article title, “The Benefits of Bringing Your Whole Identity to Work.” The article explores four strategies – and their associated risks – for cultural-minority professionals to succeed at work by leveraging their differences. The article compliments a paper published in Organizational Science in June, “Leveraging Minority Identities […]
October 2, 2019
The Inc. magazine article, “A New Study Discovered Another Reason Lying Is Terrible: It Lowers Your EQ,” delves into research by Julia Lee and researchers at the University of Michigan. Lee’s team discovered that the more someone lies, the harder it is for them to read others’ emotions, Inc. reports. “The researchers suggest that in […]
October 2, 2019
The Forbes article, “Wellness Is More Than A Buzzword: What Employees Are Looking For (And Need) Today,” highlights Jane Dutton’s research on compassionate workplaces. The article explores why corporations should take a holistic approach to wellness–supporting employees’ mental and emotional health, as well as their physical wellbeing. “These environments allow employees to adapt to their […]
September 13, 2019
How could we as employees, workers, students, families, and friends unleash our creative powers to imagine new ways of creating human connection? I love this challenge and the world could not need it more. Everywhere you look there is data about the crisis of loneliness. But beyond the need for connection that arises from the […]
September 13, 2019
Research by Professor Julia Lee reveals how doing the wrong thing can harm interpersonal relationships. People who act dishonestly don’t only hurt the people they’ve wronged — they also harm themselves. New research by Michigan Ross Professor Julia Lee and colleagues finds that individuals who engage in dishonest behavior become less accurate at reading the […]
September 1, 2019
Jane Dutton and Monica Worline spoke with the author of the Harvard Business Review article “What Wellness Programs Don’t Do for Workers” about wellness programs and mental health in workplaces. “Leaders can say that they value mental health because maybe they really do want to value it,” Worline told the author. “But they often don’t […]
July 10, 2019
Gretchen Spreitzer contributes to MarketWatch article “People are Spending $500 a Month to Avoid Their Co-Workers.” Some people with desk jobs are sick and tired of their colleagues, but their solutions could cost them promotions and raises. Gretchen is interviewed as an expert on co-working spaces, their design, why some Fortune 500 firms are renting […]
July 2, 2019
Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations, Wayne Baker, shows how your company can avoid the pitfalls. Companies sometimes find it useful to rank employee performance on specific metrics, such as sales figures. Such rankings are easy to compile, clear, and objective. Everyone in the organization knows exactly how well they’re doing and whether they’re meeting […]
June 12, 2019
Why do expressions of gratitude matter in the workplace? Here, Murchison outlines several examples of gratitude that have positively impacted an organization and workers directly. From rituals, to an inspiring heartfelt haiku from a manager, and evolving “Annual Reviews” into “Annual Conversations,” to help employees flourish and grow. His presentation also includes a powerful video […]
June 3, 2019
The Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2019 Award for Outstanding Published Article in Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is “Seeing More than Orange: Organizational Respect and Positive Identity Transformation in a Prison Context.” The article was written by Kristie M. Rogers (Marquette University) and coauthors Kevin G. […]
May 21, 2019
A recent New York Times article entitled “Why You Should Try to Be a Little More Scarce” cites Shirli Kopelman about her view of emotions as a resource in negotiation. The article also notes her book “Negotiating Genuinely: Being Yourself in Business.” Kopelman’s book touches on using negotiation to be strategic while also being real, and […]
May 15, 2019
Study shows cultural diversity, along with the anger level of customers, impacts final outcomes of service complaints. A familiar saying, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” implies the most noticeable problem will get the attention needed to resolve it. But how true is this in customer-service settings? Do the angriest complaints receive the best service? […]