Social Loafing

A team justifies its existence only if it brings added value through numbers. That means if 1+1=3. An employee has the tendency to ‘free-ride”. It is human nature. Social loafing is an organizational behavior of an employee that makes less effort in a team compared with the way he behaves next to an individual task. The...

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Business organizational structure

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou I have learned in time to treat a company as a living organism that is always sick. Rarely did I see a company that was healthy. And once in a blue moon I got a chance to exchange a few words with it. Why?...

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Did you know?

Did you know that employees are not mindless robots, a resource that you can dispose of and quantify in a turnover rate statistics? Of course you knew! If you are an employer, you will tell it to the world … and do nothing about it. … while there is nothing wrong with capitalism, there is something definitely mistaken...

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Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive

Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive … one of these 3 terms does not belong here. Which one? Leader! In business, leadership is a trait of a manager useful to exert formal authority in interacting with others. It is also a trait of the informal leaders, people that are managers of expertise. Leadership is a concept to be...

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Attribution and how managers should deal with it

Attribution theory is focused how people understand what the causes of the event are and how they judge the people involved. The causes of an event are: Internal (dispositional) – under the observer control External (situational) – under the control of the environment or other people A manager should pay attention to...

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