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      • November 2022
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      My Boss' Passion Matters as Much as My Own: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion Are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Andreas Wihler and Adam D. Galinsky
      Companies often celebrate employees who successfully pursue their passion. Academic research suggests that these positive evaluations occur because of the passion percolating inside the employee. We propose that supervisors are also a key piece of this puzzle:...  View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Job Performance; Motivation; Emotions; Performance Evaluation; Interpersonal Communication
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      Jachimowicz, Jon M., Andreas Wihler, and Adam D. Galinsky. "My Boss' Passion Matters as Much as My Own: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion Are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations." Special Issue on Work Passion Research: Taming Breadth and Promoting Depth. Journal of Organizational Behavior 43, no. 9 (November 2022): 1496–1515.
      • July 2022
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      The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others

      By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
      Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of...  View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology
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      Wang, Ke, Erica R. Bailey, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101 (July 2022).
      • March–April 2022
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      Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize

      By: Shefali V. Patil and Ethan Bernstein
      Despite organizational psychologists’ long-standing caution against monitoring (citing its reduction in employee autonomy and thus effectiveness), many organizations continue to use it, often with no detriment to performance and with strong support, not protest, from...  View Details
      Keywords: Monitoring; Transparency; Polarization; Body Worn Cameras; Quasi Field Experiment; Analytics and Data Science; Employees; Perception; Law Enforcement
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      Patil, Shefali V., and Ethan Bernstein. "Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize." Organization Science 33, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 541–570. (*The authors contributed equally to this manuscript.)
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

      By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
      We study relational contracts among managers using a unique dataset that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often...  View Details
      Keywords: Implicit Contracts; Productivity; Misallocation; Absenteeism; Supervisors; Readymade Garments; Contracts; Relationships; Management; Employees; Behavior; Performance Productivity; Apparel and Accessories Industry; India
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      Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-109, March 2021. (R&R Journal of the European Economic Association.)
      • November 2021
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      People Overestimate the Self-Presentation Costs of Deadline Extension Requests

      By: Ashley V. Whillans, Jaewon Yoon and Grant Donnelly
      Across five studies (N = 4,151), we investigate a novel barrier that prevents people from making personally beneficial requests: the overestimation of self-presentation costs. Even when deadlines are easily adjustable, people are less likely to request an extension and...  View Details
      Keywords: Extension Request; Help Request; Task Deadlines; Self-presentation; Meta-perceptions; Time Management; Behavior; Perception
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      Whillans, Ashley V., Jaewon Yoon, and Grant Donnelly. "People Overestimate the Self-Presentation Costs of Deadline Extension Requests." Art. 104253. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (November 2021).
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      It Doesn't Hurt to Ask (for More Time): Employees Often Overestimate the Interpersonal Costs of Extension Requests

      By: Jaewon Yoon, Grant Donnelly and Ashley V. Whillans
      Setting deadlines can improve productivity. Yet, miscalibrated deadlines are a major source of stress, undermining employees’ health and happiness. An effective strategy to maximize the benefits of deadlines while minimizing the costs could be to set task deadlines and...  View Details
      Keywords: Extension Request; Impression Management; Employees; Time Management; Perception
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      Yoon, Jaewon, Grant Donnelly, and Ashley V. Whillans. "It Doesn't Hurt to Ask (for More Time): Employees Often Overestimate the Interpersonal Costs of Extension Requests." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-064, January 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
      • February 2018 (Revised May 2018)
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      Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Nancy Hua Dai
      CEO Zhang Ruimin must plan how to accelerate the growth of self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural...  View Details
      Keywords: China; Microenterprise; Appliances; Platform; Change; Innovation; Opportunities; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transformation; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; China
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant." Harvard Business School Case 318-104, February 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
      • October 2015
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      The Value of Bosses

      By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
      How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality...  View Details
      Keywords: Supervisors; Management Skills; Employees; Performance Productivity
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      Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "The Value of Bosses." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. 4 (October 2015): 823–861.
      • 2008
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      Managing Up

      By: Linda A. Hill
      Managing up is not political game playing. Rather, it's a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals that are important to both of you. Through managing up, you build a productive working relationship with your boss and create a way to use the...  View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Alliances; Value Creation
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      Hill, Linda A. Managing Up. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2008. (Mentor.)
      • 2008
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      Managing Your Boss

      By: John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
      Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job—and thereby benefit not...  View Details
      Keywords: Communication; Decision Making; Information Management; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Personal Characteristics
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      Gabarro, John J., and John P. Kotter. Managing Your Boss. Paperback ed. Harvard Business Review Classics. Harvard Business School Press, 2008.
      • October 2003
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      Capture by Threat

      By: Ernesto Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
      We analyze a simple stochastic environment in which policy makers can be threatened by “nasty” interest groups. In the absence of these groups, the policy maker’s desire for reelection guarantees that good policies are implemented for every realization of the shock....  View Details
      Keywords: Political Parties; Politicians; Nash Equilibrium; Political Elections
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      Dal Bo, Ernesto, and Rafael Di Tella. "Capture by Threat." Journal of Political Economy 111, no. 5 (October 2003): 1123–54.
      • August 1999
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      Leaving

      By: David A. Thomas
      A company supervisor listens to an employee, an African American woman, announce she is leaving the company and tries to understand the situation.  View Details
      Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Retention; Race; Behavior; Diversity; Interpersonal Communication; Labor and Management Relations
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      Thomas, David A. "Leaving." Harvard Business School Case 400-033, August 1999.
      • September–October 1998
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      How to Kill Creativity

      By: T. M. Amabile
      The article addresses the topic of business creativity, its benefits, and how managers can inspire it. The author's research shows that it is possible to develop the best of both worlds: organizations in which business imperatives are attended to and creativity...  View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Management Practices and Processes
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      Amabile, T. M. "How to Kill Creativity." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 5 (September–October 1998): 76–87.
      • December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
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      Midnight Networks, Inc.

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
      Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts
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      Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Midnight Networks, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-019, December 1996. (Revised June 1998.)
      • February 1994
      • Case

      Kathryn McNeil (A)

      By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
      Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Employees; Work-Life Balance; Resignation and Termination; Mergers and Acquisitions; Retail Industry
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      Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Kathryn McNeil (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-111, February 1994.
      • October 1991 (Revised January 2000)
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      Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)

      By: Kim B. Clark and Joshua D. Margolis
      Examines the challenge facing the managers of a large aluminum manufacturing plant in its drive to improve workplace safety. The CEO of the company has made safety a top priority. The plant has made good progress in reducing the injury rate, but now confronts the need...  View Details
      Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Operations; Resignation and Termination; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Clark, Kim B., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 692-042, October 1991. (Revised January 2000.)
      • June 1990 (Revised March 1991)
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      Jonah Creighton (A)

      By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
      How do you manage yourself and your interaction with others when you feel your personal values challenged? What should you be aware of as you proceed with sensitive, ethical issues? Jonah Creighton coordinates the company's fast-track training program, and when he...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Problems and Challenges
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      Donnellon, Anne, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Jonah Creighton (A)." Harvard Business School Case 490-090, June 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
      • 1982
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      Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors

      By: R. Katz and Michael Tushman
      Keywords: Management; Personal Development and Career
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      Katz, R., and Michael Tushman. "Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors." R&D Management 11 (1982).
      • 1982
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      Quality of Work Life and the Supervisor

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
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      Schlesinger, Leonard A. Quality of Work Life and the Supervisor. New York: Praeger, 1982.
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      Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Richard E. Walton
      This article presents the findings regarding the nature of the difficulties surrounding the supervisory role in participative work systems, a conceptualization of the supervisor/work group interface, and some action implications for the management of organizations....  View Details
      Keywords: Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Innovation and Invention
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      Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Richard E. Walton. "Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?" Organizational Dynamics 7, no. 3 (Winter 1979): 24–38.
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