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Change management and communication: How to shape social reality and drive organizational change

One of the most powerful tools to manage change is language. Depending on how you use it, language...

In the digital age, companies need to prepare a plan on how to deal with paracrisis which is a warning sign or prodrome of a potential crisis to come if a change is not implemented.

Paracrisis management in the digital age: Evidence-based practices for managers and professionals

Now more than ever, companies are relying on digital services like social media and blogs to...

Team Performance Management: How to Provide Effective Feedback to Teams?

This CQ Dossier focuses on how organizations can effectively provide feedback to teams. Within...

How can a manager protect employees from sexual harassment, investigate accusations and prevent future incidents?

Sexual harassment and gender discrimination: Keeping employees safe in the #MeToo era

In the wake of the #MeToo Movement, more and more industries are grappling with the fact that...

Ego depletion is a psychological concept with important implications for managers and professionals from the public and private sector

Ego depletion: A self-fulfilling prophesy? Implications for managers and professionals

For the past few decades, psychological researchers have been aware of a phenomenon called ego...

Manager Health and Wellbeing: Taking Care of Yourself When Managing Others

Most managers are, by definition, focused on factors outside of themselves. Managing a team of...

Manager Resilience: Preventing burnout and thriving in crisis

Managers are typically tasked with overseeing and taking steps to ensure the productivity of their...

Managing organizational transformation: Change management tools that really make a difference

In your professional life you will most certainly face situations were only an organizational...

How Toxic Leadership can Undermine and Destroy Effective Performance Management Systems

Most of the research on leader effectiveness has focused on the positive side of leader behavior....

Organizational culture: How to encourage and cultivate effective performance

For organizations to have an effective performance system, they must cultivate a culture that...

Understanding science: How to evaluate the research quality of scientific studies?

As you continue to develop your evidence-based management skills, learning to evaluate research for...

How to implement an effective safety policy from an evidence-based management point of view?

In this CQ Dossier we focus on how to implement an effective safety policy. We draw on safety...

How to improve workplace safety. The science behind zero accidents and a safe working environment

This CQ Dossier focuses on what constitutes an effective safety climate and how to improve...

Agility and agile frameworks such as SCRUM are getting more and more attention in the public and private sector. We examine whether agility adds value from an evidence-based management point of view.

Management fad or evidence-based practices: Do agility and agile frameworks like SCRUM add value?

Have you already completed your organization’s agile transformation? Where do you apply SCRUM in...

High Reliability Teams: Why they matter in promoting organizational safety

How can organizations effectively use High Reliability Teams to promote safety? High Reliability...