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Credit: West Virginia University Ignoring a colleague's greeting or making a sarcastic comment in the workplace may actually do more harm than intended, according to West Virginia University research. Perceived low-grade forms of workplace mistreatment, such as avoiding eye contact or excluding a coworker from conversation, can amplify suicidal thoughts in employees with mood disorders, based on a study by Kayla Follmer, assistant professor of management, and Jake Follmer, assistant professor of educational psychology. "We know from prior research that minor forms of workplace mistreatment r...

Indian School of Business gets new dean December 30, 2020 × The Indian School of Business (ISB) has on Wednesday announced the appointment of Professor Madan Pillutla as its Sixth Dean. Pillutla is a globally renowned management academic and leader in the field of organizational behavior, currently at London Business School (LBS). He will succeed the Dean Rajendra Srivastava and will formally take over on July 1, 2021. A visiting faculty member at ISB since its founding, Prof Pillutla currently serves as a Professor of Organizational Behavior, a department he chaired in the past, at LBS. Hav...

Growth mindset of interest can spark innovative thinking Yale-NUS College Harvard Business ReviewFrom climate change to the ongoing pandemic and beyond, the issues facing today's world are increasingly complex and dynamic.  Yet solving problems like these -- which interweave social, environmental, physical, and political factors -- requires new approaches that extend beyond traditional ways of thinking.  It requires people to draw upon and integrate seemingly disparate areas of knowledge, such as the arts and the sciences.  This kind of integrative thinking, or the ability to combine knowl...

What you do is you reach out to the mayor and you say, what do you need? and the mayors of countries -- of cities around the country, they're like momma or poppa grizzly and worried about thur communities and most focused on. when a president comes in it takes in resources and energy but president trump hasn't really exhibited an ability to publicly heal or publicly bring people together. the mayors are thinking about that. and in addition to the fact that some of his rhetoric seems to have possibly led to one of the -- the motivation of one of the shooters or that seems to be what the reporti...