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IMD faculty and R&D are at the cutting edge in academic research on workplace well-being and impactful solutions and practices for leaders and organizations.

Research & Insights

IMD faculty and R&D are at the cutting edge in academic research on workplace well-being and impactful solutions and practices for leaders and organizations.

British Journal of Social Psychology

Policy as normative influence? On the relationship between parental leave policy and social norms in gender division of childcare across 48 countries

By Simon Schindler, Carolin Schuster, Maria I. T. Olsson, Alyson Meister and et al.

Academy of Management Review

Mobilities and moorings: A reply to “Keeping movement in mind. Workplace identification and mobilities theorizing”

By Blake E. Ashforth, Brianna Barker Caza and Alyson Meister

Academy of Management Review

My place: How workers become identified with their workplaces and why it matters

By Blake E. Ashforth, Brianna Barker Caza and Alyson Meister

PsyArXiv

Gender gap in parental leave intentions: Evidence from 37 countries

By Maria I. T. Olsson, Sanne Van Grootel, Katharina Block, Alyson Meister and et al.

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

How feeling misidentified can drive negative attitudes yet increase performance: The role of appraisals

By Alyson Meister, Emma Zhao, Carol Grill, Karen A. Jehn and Amanda Sinclair

Journal of Business Ethics

Microaggressions, interrupted: The experience and effects of gender microaggressions for women in STEM

By Jennifer Kim and Alyson Meister

Journal of Management

Now you see me, now you don’t: A conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of leader impostorism

By Ronit Kark, Alyson Meister and Kim Peters

Journal of Research in Personality

Validation of a performance measure of broad interpersonal accuracy

By Nele Dael, Katja Schlegel, Adele E. Weaver, Mollie A. Ruben and Marianne Schmid Mast

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Thinking of you thinking of me: An integrative review of meta-perception in the workplace

By Hanneke Grutterink and Alyson Meister

Mindfulness

The mediating role of emotional exhaustion in the relationship of mindfulness with turnover intentions and job performance

By Jochen Reb, Jayanth Narayanan, Sankalp Chaturvedi and Srinivas Ekkirala

Mindfulness

The Influence of mindful attention on value claiming in distributive negotiations: Evidence from four laboratory experiments

By Jochen Reb and Jayanth Narayanan

Mindfulness

Leading mindfully: Two studies on the influence of supervisor trait mindfulness on employee well-being and performance

By Jochen Reb, Jayanth Narayanan and Sankalp Chaturvedi

HBR.org

When your coworkers got laid off — but you didn’t

By Alyson Meister and Victoria Kemanian

The European Business Review

Holiday season burnout: How can family businesses manage workload and rest

By Alfredo De Massis and Emanuela Rondi

Startups Magazine

Work-life balance: What business leaders can learn from family businesses

By Alfredo De Massis

The World Financial Review

Ways to build trust with non-family employees in family-owned companies

By Alfredo De Massis and Emanuela Rondi

EFMD Global Focus

Leading on good and bad days: Experiences of women business school deans

By Caren Scheepers, Heather Cairns-Lee and Nicola Kleyn

Forbes.com

Rethinking design thinking in hybrid workplaces

By Tomoko Yokoi

Fast Company

Do you remind employees of their parents? How to find out, and how to change it

By Shlomo Ben-Hur

HBR.org

7 ways to weave mindfulness into your workday

By Michael D. Watkins

Fortune.com

We reviewed 1,200 studies to understand how childhood shapes the leaders we are today: Here’s what we found

By Shlomo Ben-Hur

MIT Sloan Management Review Blog

Six signs of a parent-child dynamic at the office

By Jennifer Jordan

Harvard Business Review

Stop playing favorites

By Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux

I by IMD Magazine

Play the mind game to improve your attention control

By Tania Lennon

Case Study

Pasona: Well-being through regional revitalization

Pasona Group, a Japan-based human resources company, is committed to driving social change through business and supporting individuals to find “ikigai” (fulfillment) through work. The company has promoted flexible work and equitable workplaces and…

By Alyson Meister and Naoko Jinjo

Case Study

The power and practice of mindful leadership

The note outlines the transformative benefits of mindful leadership, including enhanced decision making, the cultivation of a powerful leadership presence, the development of emotional intelligence and improved stress management. It explains how m…

By Michael D. Watkins

Case Study

Mindfulness at SAP (A): A skeptic attends the program

This case sets up the context for how the global, IT company SAP transformed a grassroots mindfulness program into a formal offering. Using the situation of a skeptical participant as its starting point, it recounts the story of how Peter Bostelma…

By Anand Narasimhan, Heather Cairns-Lee and Nancy Lane

Case Study

Mindfulness at SAP (B): From grassroots to global mindfulness

This case picks up the story in 2014 and describes how Bostelmann and SAP spread and deepened the roots of the grassroots program over the span of a decade.

By Anand Narasimhan, Heather Cairns-Lee and Nancy Lane

Case Study

Retaining entrepreneurial spirit during hypergrowth at sportswear brand On (B)

When one of On’s co-founders stepped into the elevator at the brand new On Labs headquarters in Zurich, a fellow co-worker asked whether it was also his first day at On. He was speechless. Less than a decade earlier, the 5 partners regularly went …

By Alyson Meister and Valerie Keller-Birrer

Case Study

Retaining entrepreneurial spirit during hypergrowth at sportswear brand On (A)

On Wednesday 15 September 2021, about 100 On team members were going to jog to the NYSE to mark the running shoe brand’s first day as a publicly traded company. One of few unicorns in Switzerland, On had been founded in January 2010 by running ent…

By Alyson Meister and Valerie Keller-Birrer