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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What is a Team?

An effective team is not just a bunch of people put together. It is about complementarity of employee’s competencies, it takes time and if one member leaves, the team hurts. A team does not have what is called “group thinking”. A team does not a leader as in somebody to lead. A team needs a manager that is, most of...

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Money – motivation vs. fair trade

It’s a business! It’s just business! – The two most used expressions that justify the action of an employer. For an employee the company is supposed to be a family, a place in which you feel good, this being the main motivation and not the money. How about we treat this as a business for both sides? It is always...

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Leadership vs. Followership

Leadership and/vs. Management. One or other is better. You can not have one without the other. A lot of talk on this subject. I am convinced that we need even more. There is gold in the research data and there are diamonds in the experience of seasoned executives. Without saying anything new: a leader is the one that influences the...

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Organizational behavior – definition

Organizational behavior is, as simple as possible said, the representation of people’s dynamics in an organized environment: company, public sector or NGO = a collective person. Dynamics, in physics, is the study of the causes of motion and its five variables: momentum, force, potential energy, pressure and power. Momentum is...

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