Featured Articles
Leaders as Soothsayers
By Rudy Karsan – CEO, Kenexa
Leaders need to be able to put their wisdom, experience, and the signs of the times together to figure out what the future holds for their organizations. This is easier said than done in the turbulent and competitive environment that dominates the business world today, where only change is certain, and no one knows what the next day will bring.
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Out of the Organizational Crucible©
By Jeffrey Saltzman–New York Practice Leader, Kenexa
Organizations today face unrelenting challenges, the pace of change quickens, quality must constantly be improved, costs must be reduced to remain competitive, workload increases, and management and staff spend an inordinate amount of time trying to determine “how to do more with less”. One of the most common conversations I have with CEOs, when I present findings on their organizational culture, revolves around the unrelenting pace that their organizations face and what can they do to help people cope with the pace of change.
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The Role of Person-Supervisor Fit on Employee Attitudes and Retention
By Tiffany M. Greene-Shortridge, M.S., and Lisa Wager, M.S. – Kenexa
The relationship between employees and their working environment has most often been analyzed in relation to employee satisfaction and organizational commitment. Yet, no research seems to have examined the relationship of supervisors to associates with employee satisfaction of pay/benefits and satisfaction with organizational support for learning, development, and advancement.
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Kenexa Creativity Series
Creativity in Groups and Teams
By Anne Herman, M.A. – Research Consultant, Kenexa
In the 3rd of a series of articles exploring creativity in organizations, Anne Herman explains how some of the cognitive components of creativity are influenced by group and team dynamics.
Most of the work on creative thought processes has focused on understanding these at the individual level. We have only limited information about how these cognitive processes operate at the team level or group level. Understanding how creativity operates at the team level is especially important because...
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Worth Reading
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not
on Your Side
By Sean Silverthorne
Even as time pressures increase in corporate life, the need for creative thinking has never been greater, says Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile. In this email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Amabile talks about her research—one of the most complex research efforts ever undertaken at HBS—and the implications for managers who need to keep creative thinking in their organizations even as time pressures increase.
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