The second part of the sixth IPCC assessment report just came out! I know the fans have been lining up to get a sneak preview at the enthralling 3675 pages of pure adrenaline fuelled empirical scientific content. UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierrez described the report as “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a …
I am travelling to a conference and many of my colleagues are travelling by train. I left this quite late to book and realised I don’t have enough budget to cover the train travel… do I take a flight? When I break it down, it would cost £17 to get to Denmark from London (plus …
The Goal-setting theory of motivation was introduced by Locke in the 1960’s. the premise of this theory is that goal setting is crucial for task performance and the motivation to achieve these goals. This is common in organisational behaviour as a way to motivate employees to reach certain levels of performance. These goals indicate and give …
Douglas McGregor (1960) formulated Theory X and Theory Y that suggests there are two different perspectives on motivation at work for employees, these two aspects are: These are 2 ways that managers can see their employees and consider the underlying motivation of employees. This is an old theory and has been developed in other theories since …
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) is a psychological theory that explains how humans strive to meet their basic needs in order to achieve self-actualization. The theory is one of the most well-known and amongst the first theories to be create a overarching theory of what leads people to be motivate …
Introduction Dr. Laura Graves and Dr. Joseph Sarkis study wanted to explore how leadership can affect individual motivation and lead to pro-environmental behaviours (PEB) at work. They also added the crucial factor of the individuals personal green values into the research. Leadership at work is known to affect employees throughout many contexts. Internal motivation is …
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Introduction An important type of leadership known as ‘Transformation Leadership’ facilitates the introduction of new ideas in organisations by providing vision, motivation, and intellectual simulation (see book by Bass, 1990 for more detail). Green transformational leadership then is along this same concept, but focused on environmental ideas, vision and motivation. Green performance is the innovation of …
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Introduction Roger Ulrich is a professor wanted to know how nature affects humans psychologically and physiologically. His seminal research wanted to test whether we recover better when around nature. He found that we recover faster from surgery by being around nature, even something as simple as seeing a tree from your hospital window can significantly …
Geert Hofstede’s is a cultural theorist who created a six dimensional model of culture that influence how an individual behaves. He started his work in the research department of IBM Europe where he used surveys to capture the wide ranging values of employees of the employees in the company as IBM had offices around the globe …
Organisational culture has many theoretical conceptualisations, different theorists and academics have thought about this idea in different ways. Edgar Schein’s theory of organisational culture is a prominent theory in management studies, he argues that organisational culture develops overtime as the organisation changes and adapts to external and internal pressures. His conceptualisation is vey holistic with …
Transformational leadership was popularised by Bass and Avelino in their book “Transformational Leadership“. Bass’s research on this leadership theory goes back to the early 1980’s and has grown substantially since then, especially with the adoption of business coaching and other new leadership methodologies intended on improving performance at work. Bass and Avelino distinguish between transactional …