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Sometimes there’s a work team that just really … works. It performs, innovates and adapts at a highly proficient level. How does it happen?
In new research, Maryland Smith’s Cynthia Kay Stevens and three co-authors find some common approaches among high-functioning teams. At the core, they find that team members come to understand how their colleagues view a problem.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – In what was a quiet shock, Barnes & Noble Inc. announced last week that its chief executive Demos Parneros had been fired without severance and summarily removed from the company’s board.
It was stunning – a kind of corporate whiplash.
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – You’ve got your flip-flops, sunscreen, beach reads and sunhat all packed. You’ve double-checked your travel reservations and downloaded some tourist apps. But before you walk out of the office for some much-deserved vacation time, there are some important tasks you must attend to, says Cynthia Kay Stevens, associate professor of management and organization at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Even as our social media identities become more tightly interwoven in many aspects of our lives, when it comes to our job searches, should our postings and profiles be off-limits? Regulators in the European Union are recommending that companies ban the practice of scrutinizing the social media accounts of their job applicants, while here in the United States, human resources industry experts are similarly recommending caution. Read more...
Why do job seekers, scrolling through employment postings, favor some employers over others? It may be less about what they actually know and more about what they think they know, says Smith School professor Cynthia Kay Stevens. And, because job seekers resist applying to companies they have decided are not a good fit, they may miss opportunities. Read more...
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, 7:30 a.m.
Broadcast Dates:
Thursday, June 25, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 28, 2009, 7:30 a.m.
Monday, June 29, 2009, 4:30 a.m.
If it seems like you and everyone you know is looking for a job, it might actually help your search if your friends have success landing a position.
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Cynthia Kay Stevens, associate professor in management and organization, talks about her research that finds peers’ success predicts success in job searches.
Identified as one of top 10 women/top 75 scholars published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during 1990-2000, The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, April 2000.
