You might think volunteering always gets positive reactions. But if you look a little deeper, why people volunteer can inspire both positive and negative reactions among coworkers.
“For any observable performance, results are due to a combination of the qualities of the people involved and factors beyond their foresight or control, which is simply luck,” a researcher says.
High-stakes presidential campaigns create a “comparative mind-set” among many managers, spurring them to skip considering if spending is even necessary, a researcher explains.
Even academics of business and management disciplines—most of whom spent the best years of their lives using public resources to research and teach how private businesses can enrich themselves—are finally turning to social issues.
New research into the fight against plastic pollution, published by the Academy of Management Journal, reveals the influencing power of social media as activists use emotions to convert viewers and enact change.
Two AOM researchers described the different experiences of social class transitioners and the “cultural toolkit” they acquired in a paper accepted by the Academy of Management Review.
