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      • 05 Jan 2021
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      Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

      For child and family social workers, coping with the hardships of children and parents is part of the job. But that can cause a lot of stress. Is it possible for financially constrained organizations to improve social workers’ well-being using non-cash rewards, recognition, and other strategies from behavioral science? Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans describes the experience of Chief Executive Michael Sanders’ at the UK’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as he led a research program aimed at improving the morale of social workers in her case, “The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 30 Oct 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity

      by Carliss Y. Baldwin

      Even as economics has theories about what assets and activities should be grouped together under common ownership and unified governance, in practice it sometimes makes sense to distribute complementary assets, skills, and activities across separate organizations. This paper investigates when and how this happens.

      • 09 May 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

      by James Heskett

      SUMMING UP Opinions among James Heskett's readers are divided over a critical corporate governance question: Should management put the shorter-term interests of shareholders over the longer-term needs of the company? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Nov 2015
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      Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

      by Robert Simons

      Research explores the downsides of self-interest on businesses, government, and the economy as a whole.

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