Posts tagged with: Management
The evolution of overconfidence. (Sept 2011)
"The fact that overconfident populations are evolutionarily stable may help to explain why overconfidence remains prevalent, even if it contributes to hubris, market bubbles, financial collapses, policy failures, disasters and...
Power and over-confident decision-making. (2011)
"In 2009, British Petroleum (BP) executives confidently down-played potential risks associated with their Gulf of Mexico oil rig, assuring regulators that it was virtually impossible for a major accident to...
Hubris Syndrome: An emergent outcome of the complex social process of everyday interaction? (2011)
"It is the contradiction between the complex social dynamics of real-life organizations and the dominant view of what leaders are supposed to do that creates ideal conditions for "hubris syndrome"...
Status differentiation and the protean self: A social-cognitive model of unethical behavior in organizations. (2011)
“The news lately is replete with .. high level executives of nearly bankrupt companies cutting jobs, pay, or pensions with one hand, while accepting bonuses and fantastic perquisites for themselves with...
Leadership and the rise of the corporate psychopath: What can business schools do about the ‘snakes inside’? (2011).
"... business school students value empathy least, are more self-interested, (and) demonstrate 50% more cheating behaviour than any other major." Dr Amanda Gudmundsson and Gregory Southey, Queensland University of Technology,...
Insurance and procedural ethics: Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon explosion. (2011)
Given insurers’ highly significant role… it would be relevant to reflect on their possible catalytic role … on the ethical conditions under which project risks are managed. A. A. Kyrtsis,...
The introduction of a non-traditional and aggressive approach to banking: the risks of hubris. (2011)
"The study highlights the risks of hubris, in that media praise and early successes can increase the pace of adoption of innovations which offer short-term gains but are detrimental in...
Detecting linguistic traces of destructive narcissism at-a-distance in a CEO’s letter to shareholders. (2011)
"Through selective analyses of letters to shareholders the authors explore the potential of this important form of corporate communications to provide linguistic traces of destructive narcissism. Amernic, J: Joseph...
Behavioral governance and self-conscious emotions: Unveiling governance implications of authentic and hubristic pride. (2011)
"The authors elucidate the ‘bright’ connotation of pride, namely authentic pride. They argue that examining both positive and negative facets of pride is a critical complement to understanding the governance...
The corporate psychopaths theory of the global financial crisis. (2011)
"psychopaths in corporations … had a major part in causing the crisis. Their rise has been facilitated by changes in the way people are employed, particularly in the last third...