Category: Workplace Culture

Please Note: Resources are listed in date order with most recent listed first.

• Culture differences in leadership

  An overview of the interrelationship between culture and leadership style. While global institutions’ may want to determine and develop leadership qualities deemed universal, this reduction of cultural complexity may not be possible or desirable.

• Conditional corruption

  A correlational study looking at the impact of groups and experience on the propensity for an individual to behave corruptly. It highlights the importance of developing a workplace culture with strong social norms to support ethical behaviour.

  Type: study

• Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment

  Results from the first randomized experiment of working from home show a highly significant performance increase as well as higher job satisfaction. As well, the positive gains are even higher in employees who prefer to work at home reinforcing the organizational cost savings from reduced office-expenses.

  Type: free, study

• Revisiting Work-Life Issues in Canada: The 2012 National Study on Balancing Work and Caregiving in Canada

  An overview of work-life factors affecting knowledge workers in Canada focusing on key issues such as a lack of workplace flexibility and management support as well as a decline in employee mental health. The paper includes suggestions for employers who hope to attract and retain knowledge workers.

  Type: Canadian, free, report, resource, study

• Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership

  An article describing the relationship between adopting a results-oriented, authentic leadership style and the creation of a sustainable high-performance culture.

  Type: article