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The Dark Side of Passion: How to Protect Workers from Exploitation

The Dark Side of Passion: How to Protect Workers from Exploitation

Datum:11 januari 2024
Auteur:Onne Janssen

Some workers stand out for their passion, generosity, loyalty, or heroism. Passion is the enthusiasm and excitement for one’s work, often driven by intrinsic motivation and personal interest. Passionate workers love and excel at their work, finding meaning...

Women’s Executive Leadership: A Necessary but Insufficient Requirement towards Gender Equity

Women’s Executive Leadership: A Necessary but Insufficient Requirement towards Gender Equity

Datum:06 februari 2023
Auteur:Edwina Wong

Women’s leadership initiatives have had major traction in receiving visibility, resources, and legitimacy as a way to achieve gender equity in the workplace. Women’s leadership initiatives typically see leadership as a way to empower women and increase...

‘Human Resource’ or Human Being – avoiding objectivation in the workplace matters

‘Human Resource’ or Human Being – avoiding objectivation in the workplace matters

Datum:25 oktober 2022

About 85 years ago, Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times depicted the worker’s condition in that era, which is usually mentioned by researchers to emphasize workplace instrumentalization and exploitation [1]. In this movie, a nameless employee acted like a...

How to get environmental sustainability on the agenda of directors of boards?

How to get environmental sustainability on the agenda of directors of boards?

Datum:09 mei 2022
Auteur:Julia Prömpeler

As companies play a key role in building a sustainable economy and society, they are urged to contribute to managing local and global environmental changes. To what extent companies are well on track with this in large depends on those sitting at the top...

As a leader, when to stay close to your team? Team size matters

As a leader, when to stay close to your team? Team size matters

Datum:06 december 2021
Auteur:Yingjie Yuan

Managers often struggle to find a perfect distance among followers. How close should it be? Should leaders walk around employees day-to-day for timely instructions and corrections? Or can leaders stay away from followers’ practices?

Managing workplace stress with physiolitics: leveraging benefits and addressing concerns

Managing workplace stress with physiolitics: leveraging benefits and addressing concerns

Datum:28 september 2021
Auteur:Nevena Ivanovic

In 2019 in the Netherlands, 35% of employees indicated work-related stress as a reason for absenteeism and 17% reported burnout complaints [1] costing companies over 3 billion euros [2]. While interventions to reduce occupational stress have in general...

Leading innovation networks: The importance of a compelling vision of the future

Leading innovation networks: The importance of a compelling vision of the future

Datum:19 januari 2021
Auteur:Jesús M. Mascareño

COVID-19 is accelerating intercompany collaboration, as the pandemic is forcing businesses to rethink their products, services and business models. Most contemporary firms do not possess all the necessary competences to successfully innovate independently...

Women as successful crisis managers, will it impact their numbers after COVID?

Women as successful crisis managers, will it impact their numbers after COVID?

Datum:21 oktober 2020
Auteur:Kyra van Hinsberg

The past few weeks, the great successes of female leaders during the corona pandemic have widely been commented on. With female-led countries suffering six times as few confirmed COVID-19 deaths compared to male-led countries [1], one wonders why female...

The craft of balancing control and vulnerability

Resilience under COVID-19: dare to craft empathic directiveness

Datum:30 juni 2020
Auteur:Nevena Ivanovic

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders continue to face challenges in managing the effects of the health crisis and keeping their organization under control. Meanwhile, for most of the employees, the new working arrangements have already become the new normal...

Show followers your authenticity? Join or leave, but be consistent

Show followers your authenticity? Join or leave, but be consistent

Datum:03 maart 2020
Auteur:Yingjie Yuan

Leading companies are focusing on developing authenticity in their leaders. Debates over effective leadership or best practices have lasted for decades. Yet authenticity, as declared by the Harvard Business Review, has emerged as “the gold standard for...