LDRLB (Leader Lab) hosts a podcast that shares insights from research on leadership, innovation, and strategy. LDRLB features content and interviews with some of the brightest minds in the field of leadership, innovation, strategy, talent management and organizational behavior. They draw much of their content from the research and writings of the world’s top professors. Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. These professors ... [Continue Reading...]
Are you in the In-Group or the Out-Group with your Boss?
If you are in the out-group, you know it. Your boss spends more time with others in your work team. They get more challenging assignments and more resources. You may have seen them get higher pay raises and promotions. Your boss just seems to like them more. How and why did this happen? Research over the past 40 years by George Graen and his associates has shown that the differentiation of work groups into "trusted assistants" (the in-group) and "hired hands" (the out-group) follows a ... [Continue Reading...]
Mentoring is not Cloning
Behind every successful person, there is one elementary truth: somewhere, somehow, someone cared about their growth and development. This person was their mentor.” Dr. Beverley Kaye, Up is Not the Only Way, 2004 Mentoring is a relationship between a senior person and a junior person that enhances the junior person’s personal learning on the job and career development. Research on mentoring in organizations dates back to the late seventies to early eighties. In 1985, Kathy Kram at Boston ... [Continue Reading...]
Podcast #1 – Michael Johnson interviews Terri Scandura about mentoring relationships and leadership
In this Podcast, Michael Johnson interviews Terri Scandura regarding her body of research on mentoring at work. She discusses the relationship between mentoring and leadership, the effects of gender on mentoring relationships, and how dysfunctional mentoring relationships occur. She finishes by giving recommendations to both mentors and mentees on how to start and maintain a good mentoring relationship. Michael Johnson is an Assistant Professor in Department of Management and Organization at ... [Continue Reading...]