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That Could Have Been Me: Director Deaths, Mortality Salience And Ceo Prosocial Behavior, Guoli Chen, Craig Crossland, Sterling Huang
That Could Have Been Me: Director Deaths, Mortality Salience And Ceo Prosocial Behavior, Guoli Chen, Craig Crossland, Sterling Huang
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
Mortality salience—the awareness of the inevitability of death—is often traumatic. However, it can also be associated with a range of positive, self-transcendent cognitive responses, such as a greater desire to help others, contribute to society, and make a more meaningful contribution in one’s life and career. In this study, we provide evidence of a link between chief executive officer (CEO) mortality salience—triggered by the death of a director at the same firm—and a subsequent increase in firm-level prosocial behavior or corporate social responsibility (CSR). We further show that this core relationship is amplified in situations where the death of the …
Leadership Capabilities: Transforming Your Organisation For The Digital Age, Katharina Lange, Flocy Joseph, Markus Bjorn Karner
Leadership Capabilities: Transforming Your Organisation For The Digital Age, Katharina Lange, Flocy Joseph, Markus Bjorn Karner
Asian Management Insights
Leaders of large organisations need to strike a balance between speed and thoroughness, centralisation and decentralisation, and technology and the human touch.
Authentic Leadership In The Digital Age, Richard R. Smith
Authentic Leadership In The Digital Age, Richard R. Smith
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Artificial intelligence algorithms are actively assessing our personality and behaviour based on our social media footprint with amazing accuracy – even after we have retired or died.
Why Smart Leaders Fail, David Chan
Why Smart Leaders Fail, David Chan
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
In an invited commentary, SMU Behavioural Sciences Institute Director Professor David Chan discussed leadership issues in the Singapore context. He explained how the selection and development of leaders need to go beyond academic abilities to focus on non-academic attributes, especially the ability to make effective judgements in practical situations.
The Missing Shifts, Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Conner, Howard Thomas
The Missing Shifts, Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Conner, Howard Thomas
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Connor and Howard Thomas argue it is time to change the way we develop leaders – and tap into the power of mindset. The needs the managers speak of fit into two broad categories (“empathy” and “resourcefulness”) and both are fundamental “changes in mindset”. By that, we mean a change in attitude or world view.