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Migration, Politics and CEOs, AI and morals, Sexual harassment

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12 Jul 2022

Migration Isn’t Growing, Just Changing

Experts have been pointing to increasing numbers of migrating populations as a sign of a growing global problem. But for the last seven decades, the number of migrants compared with the world population has remained about 3%.

Value Differences with Political Parties in Power Affect CEO Actions

CEOs whose values differ from the political party in power generally respond by cutting funding for research and development and saving profits.

The Moral Dangers of Letting AI Make Decisions for Us

“We are at risk, now, that these algorithms change … our morality in fundamental ways by suppressing judgment in decision-making,” AOM scholars say.

Preventing Sexual Harassment in Nonprofit Organizations

AOM scholars point to three factors that contribute to environments that can be attractive to harassers.

How to Counter Bias against Having Multiple Jobs

In many cases, professionals with multiple jobs are seen as less competent in their primary occupation, according to an Academy of Management Discoveries article.

Team Charters Can Improve Processes, but not Performance

There is no overall difference in performance because teams without charters ultimately come up with their own working agreements, according to an Academy of Management Learning & Education article.

Should Women Pitch More Like Men to Win Startup Investments?

Women tend to speak more concretely about their business plans. Men speak more abstractly about their ideas, pitching them as disruptive, industry-changing, and scalable. That gives men an advantage because investors attach more value to those qualities.

(For more research findings related to pitching ventures to investors or ideas to bosses, see below.)

Mention Black Swans and many people think of surprising events with world-changing consequences, like the COVID-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine. This two-part special issue of Academy of Management Perspectives, conceived in 2018, focuses on world-changing events and their consequences for managers and business leaders. Unexpected shocks are often products of people’s activities and organizations’ choices, making them not quite so unexpected. The pandemic, which struck as this special issue was being developed, has revealed what we got right and wrong in our thinking about such events. The full special issue, which will be free access through AOM's 82nd Annual Meeting Aug. 4–10, covers subjects including: