Don’t bother with selections or elections – the best leaders are picked randomly
I’m currently working my way through Alex Haslam’s book Psychology in Organizations – The Social Identity Approach. One of the more intriguing pieces of research it presents is on the impact of...
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Now that the first Ergonomics module assignment is out of the way and I’ve made a reasonable start in planning how I’m going to tackle the second, my thoughts have turned to my main study task for...
View ArticleMcNamara’s fallacy – some more problems with measurement
Earlier on today, I was reading through Bernard Bass’s 1995 paper from Leadership Quarterly (*) and came across McNamara’s fallacy (**) for the first time. It argues that leaders taking account of...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Organising (myself)
Farewell ergonomics, hello dissertation proposal! At least, that’s what I started to write last Sunday evening, before realising that I also have Module 4 on The Psychology of Organising and two...
View ArticleWhile the cat’s away …
… student life carries on much as normal for those of us who are on distance learning courses. This weekend I managed to submit the first Psychology of Organising assignment on time, and I’m now...
View ArticleOn leadership and followership
View image | gettyimages.com I read somewhere that the boatman who rowed King William back across the river after the Battle of the Boyne is supposed to have asked the King which side won … To...
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