What Human Factors Are Associated With The Adoption Of BYOB in an organization

Abstract—Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) is one of the current trends adopted widely by organizations. The reason for its positive reception is due to the benefit it brings to the organization through cost-efficiency, productivity levels, performance, and morale among the employee teams. Despite the benefits that BOYD brings about to organizations, many organizations are still skeptical about the threats and vulnerabilities that come about due to the human element in mobile technology. Within this context, the present paper provides an investigative approach to the role of the impact of the human element in the BOYD scheme. The paper concludes that to promote the adoption of BYOD in the organization, and there must be a renewed focus on building the element of trust and ensuring that the users can derive the maximum utility from the devices.

How age and tenure diversity affects the work performance of teams

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper concentrates on the effects of age diversity and tenure diversity in employee teams. Age separation in teams was revealed to slow down their work performance, while tenure variety accelerates a team's work performance. When diversity in age and tenure were both increased at the same time, the work speed decreased due to the learning process that ensued between people, and by communication clashes. Teams performing monotonous duties were less likely to perform to the desired level where there was a large age separation among the team members. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers’ hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Who Gets Time Off? Prioritizing Planned, Family Responsibility Leave Requests

This role play focuses on team decision making and is designed for undergraduate and graduate human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) courses. It can also support management seminars. Working within Employee Teams, Department Teams, or Manager Teams, students decide which three of five employees will obtain family responsibility leave. For HRM courses, the exercise focuses on interpreting and applying family responsibility leave, which illustrates day-to-day personnel planning. For OB courses, the debriefing centers on comparing decision-making models and discussing how beliefs and attitudes influence decision making; it also supports exchanges about the influence of conflict, domination, and groupthink on team decision making. For both OB and HRM courses, the exercise helps students compare individual and team decisions, discuss the effects of team composition on decision making, and analyze the fairness of their decisions. Instructors can conduct the activity in class or online.

Insights From the Virtual Team Science: Rapid Deployment During COVID-19

Objective To provide insights for organizations that must rapidly deploy teams to remote work. Background Modern situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are rapidly accelerating the need for organizations to move employee teams to virtual environments, sometimes with little to no opportunities to prepare for the transition. It is likely that organizations will continually have to adapt to evolving conditions in the future. Method This review synthesizes the literature from several sources on best practices, lessons learned, and strategies for virtual teams. Information from each article deemed relevant was then extracted and de-identified. Over 64 best practices were independently and blindly coded for relevancy for the swift deployment of virtual teams. Results As a result of this review, tips for virtual teams undergoing rapid transition to remote work were developed. These tips are organized at the organization, team, and individual levels. They are further categorized under six overarching themes: norm setting, performance monitoring, leadership, supportive mechanisms, communication, and flexibility. Conclusion There is a significant deficit in the literature for best practices for virtual teams for the purposes of rapid deployment, leaving it to organizations to subjectively determine what advice to adhere to. This manuscript synthesizes relevant practices and provides insights into effective virtual team rapid deployment.

Types of conflicts in a workgroup and the personnel movement

Human capital management in sustainable development conditions means, in everyday practice, taking care of the welfare of employees, understood, i.a., as a friendly atmosphere in a team, stable, and free from stress and conflicts. The author has analysed several cases of conflicts in employee teams connected with personnel movement in order to answer the following research questions: What are the characteristics of employee teams susceptible to the emergence or escalation of conflicts to levels destructive for the organisation, what types of interpersonal conflicts escalate in the analysed situations, which factors are a catalyst and which factors block conflict? Conclusions from the analysed cases allow the author to describe the main threats of destructive conflict and put forward recommendations for human capital management.

Leadership behaviors to increase employee commitment

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Provision of support to employee teams and groups enables both directive and supportive leaders to achieve positive employee outcomes. The affective commitment that emerges facilitates important group-level helping behaviors which can lead to superior organizational performance. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Pragmatic Intellectualism Syndrome in emergency response and military leadership

Values are a component of the human personality that affects a world-view, opinions, emotions and behaviors. This applies equally to managerial and executive behavior, while in the case of rescue organizations, both levels of behavior are also an important factor of organizational effectiveness. The aim of the article is to show the relationship between the ethical aspects of rescue operations and the value system represented by mountain rescuers. The applied idiographic research perspective can become an example for research on other types of organizations and employee teams, including the armed forces.