Tag Archive: Department of Management 
Companies that quiet employee opinions alienate workers and miss out on big ideas
There's a scene in an episode of the television series "The Office" in which the incompetent boss Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) tries to impress his supervisor by sharing employee ideas from a suggestion box, which he claims to sort through regularly. The first item he reads aloud: "What should we do to prepare… » Continue Reading
Loss of Control Leads People to Seek Order Through Superstition, Ritual
Individuals who lack control seek to find and impose order in the world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin and published in Science.
