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Congratulations to Faculty Award recipients

The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates the following individuals who are the latest to be granted a Faculty Award for the period of September 1, 2017-August 31, 2020. The Faculty Awards recognise demonstrated research achievement and encourage the pursuance of future academic endeavors.

Shifting metaphors, shifting mindsets: Using music to change the key of conflict

Authors: Linda M.Ippolito and Nancy J. Adler

Publication: Journal of Business Research, Forthcoming

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Twenty-First Century Leadership: A Return to Beauty

Authors:聽Nancy J. Adler and Andre L. Delbecq

Publication: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2018

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Diversity of thought is an asset for companies

Research by Desautels professor Patricia Hewlin finds that employees often feel pressured to conform to company values to succeed at work, which, ultimately, compromises company performance and employee well-being.

This is especially the case when managers act with a strong sense of integrity. Prof. Hewlin鈥檚 research suggests that companies must instead encourage employees to voice their opinions without fear of repercussion.

To Thine Own Self Be True? Facades of Conformity, Values Incongruence, and the Moderating Impact of Leader Integrity

Authors: Patricia Faison Hewlin, Tracy L. Dumas and Meredith Flowers Burnett

Publication: Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, February 2017

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When employees feel that their values do not match those of the organization, they often respond by pretending to fit in. We examine how leader integrity influences the tendency to create facades of conformity, proposing that employees will actually fake more when leaders are principled. In a laboratory experiment (Study 1), undergraduate students whose values ostensibly differed from those of other discussion group members and the university administration created more facades when they perceived the discussion group leader as having high integrity. A two-wave survey of employed adults (Study 2) replicated the moderation effect and also revealed negative effects of facade creation on work engagement. In both studies, our results indicate that, ironically, when leader integrity is high, the tendency to create facades of conformity in response to low values congruence is magnified. Additionally, our findings reveal that positive attributes in leaders may not always result in positive responses from followers. The results from our study also show that facades of conformity may serve as a partial explanatory mechanism in the relationship between values congruence and employee engagement.

Read full article: Academy of Management Journal

New Marketing Campaign: Who's behind Desautels?

This week, we replaced the exterior billboards along the Bronfman building fa莽ade. Our new bilingual campaign showcases a diverse selection of change-making students, professors, alumni and UU直播 Dobson Cup participants.

Desautels Professor named guest editor of major business journal

Desautels Professor Patricia Hewlin has been invited to serve as guest editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes鈥� (OBHDP) 鈥淎uthenticity at Work鈥� issue. Prof. Hewlin was co-author of a study on leader integrity and worker conformity.

OBHDP is one of the Financial Times鈥� top-50 business journals, and publishes on organizational behaviour and judgement in business.

How social innovation in universities will bring on a better business model

A recent Huffington Post article talks about how the old credo of 鈥渄oing well by doing good鈥� is becoming more integral to business, and quotes Desautels Professor Nancy Adler that we can no longer 鈥渃reate financially successful companies and an equitable 鈥� sustainable world by simply applying yesterday鈥檚 approaches to business.鈥� The piece goes on to describe how the Ashoka U initiative is bringing these next-gen business concepts to colleges

Desautels Professor presents at a major workplace-inequality conference

Over 30 academics from North America and Europe recently gathered at the Society and Organizations Center (SnO) in Paris for the first edition of the HEC Paris Inequality Research Conference.

The talks hit on subjects like why diversity efforts at most organizations fail and how to fix the issue, the differences in advancement speed between women and men, female tokenism at the board level, and how mental health issues can affect wages.

Alfred Jaeger, Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour wins Outstanding Paper

Professor Alfred Jaeger's paper entitled "Institution building and institutional voids: Can Poland鈥檚 experience inform Russia and Brazil?", which was published in the International Journal of Emerging Markets with co-authors S. M. Puffer and D. J.

Institution building and institutional voids: Can Poland鈥檚 experience inform Russia and Brazil?

Authors: Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J McCarthy and Alfred M Jaeger

Publication: International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2016

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Think that job tenure is evaporating? Not so fast

Experts keep saying that median job tenure has been in free fall for years; that switching careers and jobs is just the new reality. But the facts don鈥檛 necessarily support that position. It鈥檚 a more nuanced field than most people realise, and some segments are actually seeing less movement than before.

Paper by Prof. Suzanne Gagnon chosen as Organization Studies Editor鈥檚 Pick

The Desautels Faculty of Management is pleased to congratulate Assistant Professor Suzanne Gagnon for having her paper selected as Organization Studies鈥� Editor鈥檚 Pick for May.

Integrity: leaders who have it can reduce it in employees

A new study, authored in part by Desautels Associate Professor Patricia Faison Hewlin, explores how leaders who have greater integrity can have an inverse effect on the integrity of their employees. Essentially, followers can take on a fa莽ade of conformity, where they pretend to mesh with the company鈥檚 values in order to ensure their own success.

Jobs and youth: is the degree still the best start?

On a recent Breakfast Television youth employment panel, Desautels Assistant Professor Matissa Hollister said that, though it鈥檚 not necessarily an employment guarantee, 鈥渙n average, it鈥檚 very clear that the university degree is the smarter, the better way to go.鈥� But even so, the world has changed, and a degree by itself just isn鈥檛 enough.