CEOs with a verbally abusive leadership style have a profoundly negative effect on an organization’s top management team (TMT), undermining innovation and performance, according to an Academy of Management Journal article. Abusive CEOs at organizations that engage in more philanthropic initiatives have even worse effects on TMTs, hampering innovation and performance even more.
Companies such as Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Uber have platforms that have become a core part of the global economy. As these platforms have gained power, customers, gig workers, and app developers, as well as lawmakers and regulators, have struggled to hold platform companies accountable, according to an Academy of Management Annals article.
Professionals face a balancing act when it comes to dealing with how the forces of stability and change affect their career identity, according to an Academy of Management Review article.
Inspired by his own lukewarm reaction to working from home early in the pandemic, an AOM scholar began researching how the evolving definition of “workplace” affected employees in different industries. Poring over scores of previous studies, he and his coauthors discovered that, even in the new normal, workplaces are as influential as they have ever been.
