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Study: Embrace the 'Dwight Schrutes' in your office for better performance

Study: Embrace the 'Dwight Schrutes' in your office for better performance

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nobody wants to share a cubicle with a new hire like Dwight Schrute.





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Research Shows Pride’s Potential to Foster Individual Success

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The age-old question of whether pride is the seventh sin or an adaptive virtue has been answered by two Northeastern University scientists. Contrary to popular belief, the researchers found that pride not ...


Do your children push the boundaries? It may be a sign of future leadership abilities study shows

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Children whose parents use a firm parenting style that still allows them to test the rules and learn from it are more likely to assume leadership roles as adults according to a new study published in a recent edition of The ...


Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders

Study: Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why did Barack Obama win the US election and did the fact he is over six feet tall influence the voters? The authors of a paper published in Current Biology this month argue that due to 'a ...


Microsoft Reorg Focuses on Business

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microsoft has reshuffled its organizational chart again, this time adding the Developer and Platform Evangelism team to its Server and Tools division, and then moving that merged entity into the Business division.


Employee's loyalty to workplace damaged by unfair treatment

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new study reveals that unfair treatment of employees is damaging to mental health.


The evolving manager stereotype: Gender a factor in measuring a team's performance

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although women have made strides in the business world, they still occupy less than two percent of CEO leadership positions in the Fortune 500. Not surprisingly therefore leaders still tend to be thought of as men and most ...


Ambulatory surgical centers may exceed performance of hospitals for certain procedures

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring five quality-base performance areas, an ambulatory surgical center out performed a standard hospital based surgical center in otolaryngic surgeries, according to new research in the December 2009 issue of Otolaryngology - ...


Hourly employees happier than salaried

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People paid by the hour exhibit a stronger relationship between income and happiness, according to a study published in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), the official journal of the So ...


Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 8

When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism ...


Poor leadership poses a health risk at work

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Perceived poor managerial leadership increases not only the amount of sick leave taken at a workplace, but also the risk of sickness amongst employees later on in life. The longer a person has had a "poorer" manager, the ...



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