Management in the Media
Welcome to Management in the Media, our monthly digest of School of Management research and expertise making headlines.
“We must be brave enough to call out bad behaviour” says Dr Michael Mosley in his Mail Online column – new research from Anna Tirion and Annayah Prosser shows that bystander support is crucial for tackling anti-social behaviour and helping to prevent a gradual erosion of social norms. Read the press release
Why economists are warning of another US banking crisis. Ru Xie assesses how worried we should be for The Conversation
Hankering for status drives non-executive directors to outstay their effectiveness on corporate boards, finds Dr. Johanne, PhD, SFHEA Grosvold 's research, featured by Workplace Insight and the FT’s Business School Insider newsletter. The study found the desire for social recognition lay behind a reluctance to relinquish the seat on the board. Read the press release
Why did the Post Office management think so little of their sub-postmasters? Stephen (Steve) Wyatt discusses why the toxic culture prevailed for so long in the Post Office Horizon scandal, with Martin Stanford on LBC News. Listen from 01:26:29
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The Financial Times asks if it’s possible to master emotions when trading and refers to research by Richard Fairchild and Neal Hinvest which says context – namely share price at the time of trading – determines the level of emotion experienced by novice traders.
Modern slavery charges in the wake of the Boohoo Scandal masked the root causes of labour exploitation in Leicester, say Pankhuri Agarwal and Vivek Soundararajan in their new report picked up by Just Style. Interviews with workers, manufacturers, and civil society representatives (including community organisations, unions and auditors), air their experiences of Boohoo moving manufacturing abroad. Read the press release
Teslim Oyegoke Bukoye ’s scheme to send surplus management textbooks to universities in Nigeria featured in the Nigerian Tribune, reporting on his ambition to reach one million students in Higher Education with books shared through Readcycle Bath. Read the press release
Optimistic thinking is linked with lower cognitive ability, flags research by Chris Dawson on the implications for poor financial decision-making. Brigitte is the latest media outlet covering the story, alongside Women’s Health Australia who list it as cause to welcome ‘the demise of toxic positivity.’ Read the press release
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