Corporate Culture - Ethical Systems

Advancing DEI With More Psychological Safety and Authenticity

Blog, Corporate Culture, Diversity, Fairness, Human Rights, Psychological Safety, Speak-Up and Call-Out Culture

In Part 1 of this two-part series, I wrote about identifying and removing toxic elements from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. However, it isn’t just DEI’s combative issues or toxic approaches that can be problematic. Crudely spotlighting diversity and asking employees to take part in the process of enhancing it can cause threats to safety . . .

Detoxifying DEI: How to Clean Up the Reality and Perception of DEI

Blog, Corporate Culture, Diversity, Fairness, Human Rights, Psychological Safety, Speak-Up and Call-Out Culture

As complaints about ill effects fuel criticism of diversity, equity, and inclusion—and companies “rebrand” their efforts to render them less obtrusive—is DEI destined to follow ESG in becoming the “latest dirty word in corporate America”?

In The Age Of AI, Critical Thinking Is More Needed Than Ever

Blog, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Leadership

Critical thinking is needed to ensure that AI implementation is successful. The rise of AI has proven to be a watershed moment in history, with countless arguments for and against its use in practically every industry and use case conceivable.…

One More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team Performance

Blog, Corporate Culture, Fairness, Human Rights, Leadership

Diversity has several established benefits to team performance. Discussions on diversity in the workplace can be heated and contentious. All too often, we see attitudes toward diversity in the workplace shift like a pendulum, as the explosion…

These 8 Levers Of Organizational Culture Will Drive Great Performance

Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership

Certain areas of organizational culture can act as levers on performance when managed appropriately. Forty-six percent of business leaders say that culture drives employee productivity, engagement and retention — and 90% say…

Why aiming for the best isn’t always good for you (w/ Barry Schwartz and Coco Krumme)

Blog, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Personality & Personnel, Podcast

Many people are obsessed with optimizing their lives, but this might be a suboptimal way to live. Adam brings together psychologist Barry Schwartz (author of “The Paradox of Choice”) and applied mathematician Coco Krumme (author of…

Do we really need to ‘move fast and break things’?

Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership

From “move fast and break things” to “hacker culture,” Silicon’s Valley’s mantras over the past two decades have seemingly encouraged employees to cast aside moral concerns in pursuit of innovation. Perhaps due to this mindset,…

Unveiling the Unobtrusive: The Rising Power of UICs in Culture Measurement

Blog, Corporate Culture, Corporate Culture Assessment, Speak-Up and Call-Out Culture

Unobtrusive indicators of culture are providing new and growing data streams to assess company culture from the outside. There are several ways a business might choose to measure its company culture. The fruits of most are confidential…

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Workplace Political Polarization

Corporate Culture, Human Rights, Personality & Personnel, Political Polarization, Practitioner, Professor, Research Summaries, Researcher

Political polarization in the United States is increasing more rapidly than among other democratic-style governments (Brown University, 2020; Pew Research, 2014) and becoming more problematic in terms of workplace civility and productivity…

Positive Psychology & Ethical Organizations

Corporate Culture, Positive Organizational Psychology, Practitioner, Professor, Research Summaries, Researcher

The modern movement of Positive Psychology is often said to have begun when Martin Seligman, in a 1998 speech as APA President, introduced the idea of a “reoriented science that emphasizes the understanding and building of the most positive…