Oxford Review

03/04/2024

In this episode David talks with Frank Tsuro about first generation leaders and the issues they face. For full notes, transcripts and links go to:

23/08/2023

Understanding what humble leadership is and the impact it has is important for all leaders and anyone involved in leadership development and coaching as it can have powerful outcomes. In this briefing we look at a recent review of humble leadership.

Researchers have conducted a systematic review of the humble leadership research to date and here is what they have found...

23/06/2023

Coaches who believe plausible rubbish and pseudoscience could be costing your organisation a lot. In this post I look at a new study about the impact of...

The prevalence of pseudoscience in coaching and organisations is a concerning phenomenon that is causing a lot of ...

01/06/2023

With the advent of AI and automated knowledge systems, plausible rubbish, misinformation and disinformation can easily wreck a business or organisation. But how can you protect your organisation or business from it? Read this guide.

Protecting your organisation from misinformation and plausible rubbish is essential. AI and automated systems have made it even...

03/05/2023

Misinformation and plausible rubbish are the scourge of organisations. Once it enters your systems it can play all sorts of havoc. I this article I look at some evidence-based ways of protecting your organisation.

Misinformation and plausible rubbish cause organisations all sorts of problems. In this article, Dr. David Wilkinson looks at ...

04/04/2023

Social media is now one of the major marketing and sales channels in the B2B space. This recent study has 15 findings about its use in the B2B space.

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing and sales is highly competitive and organisations are always looking for new ways to improve their...

01/04/2023

Many new technologies are being embraced by coaches. In this interview, David talks with the author Sam Isaacson about how to use technology as a coach

Given the rapid development of technology and its impact on just about every aspect of organisational operations and the personal lives of many people, many new technologies are being embraced by coaches around the world. In this interview, David talks with the author Sam Isaacson about his recent b...

11/03/2023

ChatGPT and other generative Ai tools probably aren't doing what you think they are....

Why ChatGPT and generative AI keeps getting things wrong

14/02/2023

I interviewed ChatGPT to see if it thought what it is doing is ethical and legal. ChatGPT thinks not!
What do you think?

Is what ChatGPT is doing ethical and legal? In this video David interviews ChatGPT and its answers may suprise you!

04/02/2023

In this podcast I talk with Dr Jan Laser, an independent researcher, about his latest paper looking at what criteria we should use to assess ambidextrous leaders.

In this podcast David talks with Jan Laser who is a HR Business Partner in an Organisation in Hamburg, Germany. Jan publishes academic papers whilst not being employed as an academic. In this podcast, Jan and David talk about publishing papers as a non-academic independant researcher and about his l...

13/05/2022

Funny exam fails…

Here are some of this years university exam fails…

As you may know I also lecture at a couple of Universities (Oxford, Cardiff and Oxford Brookes) on a regular basis. I also mark exam papers and theses in these and a couple of other universities. I thought you might like to see some of the errors we get to see….

A look at some of this year's exam fails from from student examination papers marked by a university lecturer and examiner...

13/05/2022

An interview with Dr. Ruby Campbell author of Scientists In Every Boardroom: Harnessing the Power of STEMM Leaders in an Irrational World

13/05/2022

A new (2017) study looking at staff learning at an organisational level found that while management frequently decrees that learning should take place during working hours, time is rarely given to staff to do that learning.

AND DEVELOPMENT LEARNING

Managers are failing to give workers time to learn and it having serious consequences. A new study has found that whilst managers want people ....

13/05/2022

6 research based guidelines for achieving and sustaining organisational change

CHANGE CHANGE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH RESEARCH BRIEFING

Recent research has found that there are 6 overarching guiding principles for successful organisational change

13/05/2022

Mergers and acquisitions are often seen as a desirable method of growing a business. However, many mergers and acquisitions fail to meet their desired outcomes and have in a number of cases resulted in disastrous consequences for the organisations concerned. As organisations grow and become more complex, mergers and acquisitions also become trickier to navigate.

AND ACQUISITIONS

Many mergers and acquisitions fail to meet exceptions. This research briefing reviews the findings of over 480 studies about how to make M&As work...

12/05/2022

How do organisations and clients choose a management consultant to work with them?

What criteria and what decision-making processes organisations use to choose consultants is an important question for both organisations and consultants / consultancies. Looking at the current research provides a useful evidence-based overview of the nature of the problem faced by organisations when deciding whether or not to call in external expertise and help and how they go about making the choice between the huge array of consultants and consultancies available in the market.

How do organisations and clients choose a management consultant to work with them?What criteria and what decision-making processes organisations use...

12/05/2022

Principled leadership is essential in todays environment. Issues like the Enron scandal (where the Chief Executive was found guilty of 18 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading) and the VW emissions scandal (where technology was used to cheat emissions testing protocol and a range of other scandals) show that unethical and unprincipled decision-making and leadership is not an uncommon problem and is most likely occurring right now behind closed boardroom doors in some organisation or other.

UPrincipled leadership: unethical and unprincipled decision-making and leadership is not an uncommon problem. A new study looking at...

11/05/2022

Laughter is one of those behaviours that often gets overlooked in organisations. Nice when it happens but... a new study has found...

11/05/2022

A meta-analysis of 72 research papers just published has thrown up nine points for human resources and development professionals to consider when looking at a shared leadership system. The paper looked at shared leadership at a team level rather than the macro organisational level.

LEADERSHIP

A new meta analysis of previous research into shared leadership has found a set of nine patterns or principles about share leadership that show...

11/05/2022

In this episode, David talks with Scott Hunter about his leadership influence model. The model, full notes, links and transcript are here:

10/05/2022

An interesting paper has just been published looking at the role culture change plays in mergers and acquisitions.

The researchers estimate that approximately 30% of all mergers and acquisitions that fail to meet their objectives and outcomes, do so because of a clash of organisational cultures within the new merged organisation.

AND ACQUISITIONS CULTURE CULTURE RESEARCH

About 30% of all mergers and acquisitions fail to meet their objectives, because of a clash of organisational cultures. A new study has found 7 ...

10/05/2022

In my last article How to predict unethical behaviour I looked at research that showed:

a. The 2 primary predictors of unethical behaviour, and

b. The 3 precursors of moral disengagement

Today we are going to have a look at what the research says about the actual process people have to undergo to morally detach themselves from their decisions in order to act unethically.

DISENGAGEMENT BEHAVIOUR

Moral disengagement: what it is, how it happens and how to use it so you can predict whether someone is going to act unethically ...

09/05/2022

An interesting and unusual paper about to be published in early January (2016) in the Iran Red Crescent Medical Journal (Yes we really do scour the journals from around the world!) looked at nurse’s experience of organisational or job conflict in hospitals within Iran. The researchers examined the experience of organisational conflict through the eyes of 19 nursing staff from Iranian hospitals. Before you start thinking ‘this has nothing to do with me’, the lessons from this study are really interesting, illuminating and useful for people in most organisations.

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH REVIEW

This is an interesting paper looking at experiences of organisational or job conflict. The paper develops three categories of organisational conflict.

09/05/2022

One of the hot topics at the moment is open innovation. Open innovation really refers to an information age mindset towards innovation.

The idea is to purposefully seek out external knowledge and ideas. The assumption is that organisations can and should leverage external knowledge and not just focus on their own internal knowledge creation and innovation. This research briefing looks at what conditions help to get open innovation going in an organisation and include the five primary capabilities an organisation needs to make open innovation work.

FORECASTING ERRORS LEADERSHIP ORIENTATION KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION FLEXIBILITY BRIEFING SYSTEM

This week we sent out the following research briefings to our members: "What creates the conditions for open innovation in an organisation" and "Why introverts rarely emerge as leaders" ...

08/05/2022

There is a bit more to skills development than just practice. This Oxford Review guide to developing skills in organisations will lead you through just about everything you need to know to become an ace at skills development.

AND DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

There is a bit more to skills development than just practice. This Oxford Review guide to developing skills in organisations will lead you through...

08/05/2022

As the pace of change picks up, organisations across the globe are looking not only to deal with change in a positive and productive manner, but also improve performance, build competitive advantage, be innovative, profitable and sustainable.

WORK BEHAVIOUR WORK BEHAVIOURS -LEADERSHIP -LEADERSHIP TRAINING

How organisations can develop greater levels of innovation work behaviours. New research looking at this question found that ...

08/05/2022

New research - Job crafting: How to get people engaged with it... https://www.oxford-review.com/job-crafting-how-to-get-people-engaged-with-it-new-study/

07/05/2022

77% of the population worry about at least 3 things a day ... new research is showing that there are 3 types of worry and that they change the way we feel towards uncertainty....

07/05/2022

Why organisational learning fails: Running a safe and efficient space programme is one of the highest risk jobs of all. A new report shows that investigations into organisational learning with regard to the Challenger and Colombia space shuttle accidents at NASA have shown that fundamental organisational constraints are frequently the greatest impediment to learning.

ORGANISATION LEARNING LEARNING FAILS

Why organisational learning fails: Running a safe and efficient space programme is one of the highest risk jobs of all. A new report shows that investigations into organisational learning with regard to the Challenger and Colombia space shuttle accidents at NASA have shown...