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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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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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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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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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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