What do we look for when we consider proposals for essays at the Journal of Management Studies, and why those criteria matter (a useful reminder as 3/4 of the proposals we receive have nothing to do with the remit of JMS Says!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Can Cambridge be a model for kick-starting the British economy? on.ft.com/4hZGrDb

Overreliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health The technology promises productivity gains but too much focus on machines could erode socialisation and friendship www.ft.com/content/af77...

This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

Hi Cambridge students & colleagues, Are you passionate about inclusion in the workplace? Come join us for the next ThinkLab Ideas Challenge on March 28th! Sign up to be part of a team challenge (with funding available for the winning ideas) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

😒 Massive layoffs at #Meta/ #Facebook targeting so called "low performers" My views in @fortune.com 👉 The term is meaningless and be used on the pretense of objectivity fortune.com/2025/02/13/m...

👭 How does remote work affect #gender #discrimination? 🙅‍♀️ A new study published in Organization Science tests the fact that gender differences are less salient in the context of remote work. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America theconversation.com/argentinas-p...

🤔Looking for concrete and practical mental health skills for the modern workplace? 🙌Stay tuned for "Wellbeing Intelligence: Building Better Mental Health at Work" to be release in July amazon.co.uk/Wellbeing-In...

Honoured to share my predictions for 2025 with @jagolinzer.bsky.social, Lucia Reisch, @thomroulet.bsky.social, @jaideepprabhu.bsky.social and and David Reiner @cambridgejudge.bsky.social in Poets&Quants. Despite writing individuals, there ar shared commone themes. lnkd.in/ezytHqdB

Tomorrow at 12pm! The ThinkLab is teaming up with the Staff Wellbeing Team to host this event on sharing experiences and feedback to create the University Staff Wellbeing Action Plan for fostering a supportive workplace. @thinklab.bsky.social @thomroulet.bsky.social #cambridge #wellbeing

A Social Science of Caregiving This CASBS podcast episode attracted the most unique listeners in 2024. Recorded before a live audience, @mlevi.bsky.social, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a multi-disciplinary reimagining of caregiving 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#soci...

💫 Tomorrow is the start of admissions interviews at the University of Cambridge. Like every year I will be interviewing candidates in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences for King's College, Cambridge 🤔 A thread

Glad to see the research programme on caste inequalities led by Hari Bapuji & Sneha Chrispal - which I have been part of as a co author and host of the first conference on caste inequalities in Cambridge - to be recognised by the Australian Business Deans Council.

Interesting new paper in The Economic Journal. The study relies on machine learning to show that the political leanings of economists influence the language they use, but also the very estimates they produce in a way that aligns the policy being promoted with their partisan opinion.

👹 When does abusive supervision and managers pass as "tough love"? 💔 According to a recent piece in OBHDP by Robert Lount Woohee Choi & B J Tepper it's all about the perceived performance of those supervisors or managers.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Musk said Bezos told people they should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock because Donald Trump would lose. It is a way to give himself an excuse to legitimately try to influence regulation to his advantage, by saying that 'Bezos started it' www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-je...

@tylershores.bsky.social and Colleen Mayowski talking about 'what works' - evidence based insights into community impact. Self efficacy around writing leads to increased writing output. Even one hour a week of shut up and write has a statistically significant impact on productivity

Fascinating discussion between @tylershores.bsky.social and Colleen Mayowski at the #shitupandwrite symposium. Discussion topic: What works? Evidence-based insights into community impact

Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network on.ft.com/4fW12Yj

🍽️ Does hybrid working impact gender balance at home? 📣 Base on UK data, two researchers looked at the impact of hashtag#hybridworking on the split of household chores. They found the following.

This paper demonstrates an important question in replication and investigation--through which process should we select papers for reevaluation? I would love to know if market is biased based on status or demographics, but the scale/cost of that study would be astronomical. @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social.

Created a list with scholars in the business and society field: bsky.app/profile/did:...

🌀 Are neurodiverse individuals discriminated in the workplace? 📣 In survey data collected in the UK last month by Zurich Insurance we can observe that:

We also need a starter pack of all the people who spent most of the 1990s eagerly waiting for Mulder & Scully to get together because I am sure we have a lot in common. #xfiles

What is wellbeing intelligence? (WBQ) youtu.be/7y4wau97uso?...

🔥 How do entrepreneurs signal their distinctiveness? 🎹 In a fascinating new piece in the Academy of Management Journal, Karl Taeuscher & Michael Lounsbury look at how patents matter the most... in some contexts.

Cornell Prof @profsunitasah.bsky.social Cambridge Prof @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and cult psychologist Diane Benscoter discuss Belief Systems: Why is Disinformation Effective? 2023 Cambridge Disinformation Summit archives youtu.be/ETb6sy_KrXI?...

I often joke that those who cannot do, they teach and that’s how I became Professor of Leadership 🤣 but hopefully this outsider perspective, informed by scientific work can be of direct practical use.

Nearly three-quarters of English higher education providers face being in deficit next year despite the coming rise in tuition fees after student recruitment lagged well below expectations, the sector regulator has found #highered #AcademicSky

Exciting to see our online Communications course with Simon Hall for Cambridge University Press has won the Learning technologies award for Excellence in the design of learning content. To be found here advanceonline.cam.ac.uk/courses/comp...

“The data is never perfect, yet [anyone] can see that abolishing the retirement age would be a disaster for the university. People would basically be able to hold their job indefinitely, whatever their performance or contribution,” ✍🏻 @thomroulet.bsky.social 👉🏻 @timeshighered.bsky.social #AcademicSky

What talent management issues should leaders prioritize in 2024? How should managers advocate for workers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? I provide some answers in this MIT Sloan Management Review video youtu.be/6uXF_DY4e0k