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Research Café 2014: Lord David Owen – ‘binding’ leaders
"... I will deal with, ‘Structures and processes that might bind, shackle and brake democratic leaders without inhibiting their ability to give of their best’. ‘Binding’ is very important … One...
Research Café 2014: Ricardo Blaug introduction – Leadership, democracy and hubris
"The theme today is the nature of leadership….Lord Owen has made a very interesting remark in his book The Hubris Syndrome that one possible ‘treatment’ for hubris may in fact be...
Research Café 2014 overview: Leadership, Democracy and Hubris
On 4 March 2014 the University of Westminster’s Centre for Studies in Democracy and the Daedalus Trust jointly hosted a Research Café. The event was attended by just over 50...
The force that corrupts leaders (and others). (2014)
“…power can be either negative or positive.” Prof. Ronald E, Riggio, Claremont McKenna College, California. Psychology Today, 3 April 2014 “When we think about greed, jealousy, corruption, and a multitude...
The Science of Leadership: Lessons from research for organizational leaders. (2014)
"Takes a middle ground between the academic and practitioner approaches to leadership by outlining practical guidelines that are evidence-based." Julian Barling PhD, Queen’s School of Business, Canada. Oxford University Press, 6 March...
Why are there so many horrible bosses? (2014)
“What can organizations and individuals do about bad bosses?" Prof. Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna College, California Psychology Today 6 August 2014. “We all likely have a story of that...
The bright and dark side of altruism: Demographic, personality traits, and disorders associated with altruism. (2014)
“Interpersonal Sensitivity (Agreeableness) and Inquisitiveness (Openness) correlated most strongly with altruism. Two darkside disorders (Excitable, Reserved) correlated negatively but two others (Imaginative and Dutiful) correlated positively.” Adrian Furnham & Luke Treglown, University College...
Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry. (2014)
“…in a game designed to reveal dishonest behaviour, employees of a large international bank behaved as honestly as the rest of us. But in tests mimicking the competitive nature of...
I’m too good for this job: narcissism’s role in the experience of overqualification. (2014)
“…employees scoring high on exploitiveness/entitlement reported feeling overqualified even when they did not possess surplus education relative to job requirements.” Douglas C. Maynard and Elena M. Brondolo, State University of...
The Oxford Handbook of leadership and organizations. (2014)
"...a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues." David V. Day (Ed.) Oxford University Press. From the publisher’s website: Addresses various...