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The Unintended Consequences of Asking for Employee Input

The Unintended Consequences of Asking for Employee Input

A study which shows that managers can, without being aware of it, appropriate the ideas suggested by their teams. This acknowledgement bias weakens motivation and hinders proactivity.

Author(s): Hyunsun Park, Subra Tangirala, Insiya Hussain

Publisher: Harvard Business Review

Date of publication: 2022

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Synopsis

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The keys to proactivity

The keys to proactivity

Employees who seize the initiative: that is every manager's dream. But this attitude is far from being simple to establish in practice. How can we understand the mechanisms of proactivity to turn it into a key to collective efficiency?
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