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Subject(s)
Finance, accounting and corporate governance
Subject(s)
Economics, politics and business environment
Volume
2015
Journal Pages
1–13
Subject(s)
Management sciences, decision sciences and quantitative methods
Keyword(s)
Management science, research
JEL Code(s)
M00
Journal Pages
96–97
Subject(s)
Marketing
Keyword(s)
Personal selling, customer relationships
JEL Code(s)
M310
Subject(s)
Economics, politics and business environment
Subject(s)
Technology, R&D management
Keyword(s)
Crowdsourcing, innovation, search
Rejections are common in everyday life, yet their consequences for individual behavior remain little studied. We examine a situation in which organizations invite people outside their boundaries to provide suggestions for formal action. Organizations that receive such suggestions can choose to act upon them, ignore them, or even reject them. While rejections carry a cost (i.e., potentially alienating the suggestion-maker), they are also an important source for motivation and learning. We unite these opposing views and argue that rejections can under certain conditions increase effort; moreover, we document how people learn by changing their behavior when trying again.
With permission of the Academy of Management
Volume
2015
ISSN (Online)
2151-6561
ISSN (Print)
0065-0668
Subject(s)
Human resources management/organizational behavior
Keyword(s)
Error management, leadership
Errors are ubiquitous in organizations and may develop in catastrophes for the society at large. Leaders and top leaders are directly concerned as they are responsible for the errors of their organizations in addition to their own. Yet the role of leadership in handling organizational and managerial errors has been seldom explored. This panel will engage the audience with a series of insights: a) what may be expected from leaders in the management of errors; b) antecedents and outcomes of effective leadership behavior in error management; c) vivid examples of organizations where leadership issues are integrated in the management of organizational errors. The panel is composed of five scholars originating from as many countries. With expertise on industries - healthcare, aviation, nuclear energy - where errors may have severe consequences, it will propose an interactive debate that is relevant to both scholars and practitioners.
With permission of the Academy of Management
Volume
2015
ISSN (Online)
2151-6561
ISSN (Print)
0065-0668