In my previous article about avoiding blind spots in your company's culture, I ended on the note that sometimes there are unforeseen consequences that come from focusing too narrowly on certain ...

Organizational behavior, or OB, is the study of how people act in an organization or workplace, and what motivates them to act that way. Knowledge of OB concepts is an important tool in any new ...

Establishing an ethical value system in an organization or business requires a formal statement of the ethical values of the group and training employees and members to follow those values.

Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 4, Special Issue: Brave New Workplace: Organizational Behavior in the Electronic Age (Jun., 2002), pp. 363-382 (20 pages) As we enter the new ...

The reader is quite correct in noting that I do not write about politics. I have not done so in the 20 years I have been a featured columnist for BizTimes Milwaukee and I am certainly not going to ...

Marcell Haywood is the founder of Encompass and a regular contributor. Connect with him on business, technology and leadership on LinkedIn. Studies indicate companies with a positive value system and ...

Your company values are the core tenets that direct culture and priorities. Hiring based on these values means you will have employees who integrate faster, are more productive on teams and are more ...

In the field of Organizational Behavior, researchers draw on the methods and concepts of psychology and sociology to examine complex organizations and the ways that people behave within them. Scholars ...

The inclusion of morally binding values such as religious—or in a broader sense, spiritual—values fundamentally alter organizational decision-making and ethical behavior. Family firms, being a ...