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Management

“A commentary on Thomas et al. (2024): How high achievers and hypercompetitive cultures may be inadvertently dissuading mental health offering usage”

Thomas et al. (2024) contribute to research and practice by providing a standardized taxonomy of workplace mental health (MH) resources, a much-needed step toward systematically addressing employee well-being in modern organizations. Yet, its effectiveness hinges on understanding the barriers that prevent certain employees from utilizing these resources. In line with Thomas et al.’s call for research to identify the “factors that (1) limit workers’ using and (2) foster workers’ using the MH offerings in their workplaces” (p. 24), we draw attention to a critical segment of the workforce that often goes overlooked in conversations surrounding MH: high achievers. Specifically, we argue that high-achieving employees have unique considerations, needs, and challenges surrounding their MH that can impede MH support utilization. Moreover, given these individuals’ impactful role in organizations’ success and cultures, attending to the unique considerations of this population is of paramount concern. We elaborate on how organizations and leaders may be exacerbating high achievers’ MH challenges and thwarting support utilization, as well as how high achievers themselves may perpetuate this damage. We also discuss the MH offerings from Thomas et al.’s taxonomy that are likely to be most beneficial to high achievers and, thus, hopefully attenuate the potential damage done to themselves and others.
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2025 T Fezzey J Fan M Mills Satoris Howes View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Management

“A commentary on Thomas et al. (2024): What employees, HR professionals, and business leaders really need”

We extended Thomas et al.’s (2024) organizing framework of mental health benefits to include dimensions specific to each stakeholder group. We also introduce the need for a compassionate communication platform in which the formal leadership-level taxonomy is expressed to employees using a person-centered approach. Together, group-specific dimensions and a compassionate communication platform will improve literacy of mental health benefits for employees, HR professionals, and business leaders, and more importantly, usage of mental health benefits for employees.
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2025 A Huffman Satoris Howes View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Management

“A Commentary on Thomas et al. (2024): Zooming In and Out to Enhance Employee Well-being”

Thomas et al. (2024) address a crucial and timely objective in today’s workplace: the growing and unprecedented need for employees to have access to, and to use, mental health resources. Their goal with creating a taxonomy of mental health offerings was to “increase the chances these offerings make impacts in people’s lives” (p. 3). We argue, however, that to truly impact employees’ lives, we must do what Kanter (2011) suggested leaders do in order to make effective strategic decisions, namely, to zoom in and to zoom out. First, we need to zoom out. Rather than focus exclusively on mental health, we must expand the focus to reflect a broader view of health. Second, we must zoom in. We need to focus on a very important benefit that individuals both want and need – flexible sick/wellness leave. In our commentary, we expand on Thomas et al.’s (2024) suggestions on how to improve the (mental health) needs of employees by zooming out and zooming in. To make our case, we focus on the experience of grief. Grief illustrates the complexities associated with health needs of employees and highlights (a) challenges associated with focusing exclusively on mental health (to the exclusion of physical health) and (b) the importance of flexible leave time in addressing employee health needs.
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2024 Satoris Howes A Huffman View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Management

“A contingency approach to designing project organizations: theory and tools”

Many firms have increasingly come to rely on projects as a fundamental approach to organizing work. Yet understanding the best way to organize projects is a challenge, given the various contingencies that impact project success. We focus here on three contingency-based project organization design tools (the design structure matrix, OrgCon™ and SimVision™) that help to manage project complexity and ensure project success by identifying misfits or misalignments between organizational elements. We discuss the application of these models to a large National Aeronautics and Space Administration project as an example. We conclude with a consideration of how the existing tools are useful, and where they fall short.
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5-14 pages 2012 Taylor & Francis Tim Carroll Richard Burton View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Management

“A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures”

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2021 Warren Tierney Jay Hardy III Charlie Ebersole Dominique Viganola Elena Clemente Michael Gordan Suzanne Hoogeveen Julia Haaf Anna Dreber Magnus Johannesson Thomas Pfeiffer Jason Huang Leigh Vaughn Kenneth DeMarree Eric Igou Hanah Chapman Ana Gantman Matthew Vanaman Jordan Wylie Justin Storbeck Michael Andreychik Jon McPhetres Culture and Work Morality Forecasting Collaboration Eric Uhlmann View on: Google Scholar

Academic Journal
Management

“A framework of organisations as dynamic structures”

This paper integrates advances in organisational structure research into a broader framework of 'structural action' that depicts organisations as dynamic structures. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the main contributions from various theories and perspectives that have all informed our understanding of the impact of organisational structure on strategic change. We propose that organisational structures, as one mechanism by which strategy is enacted, are moulded purposefully and in different ways. To better understand how organisations are re-designed, the framework recommends particular structural actions depending on the turbulence (both internal and external) and performance (both actual and aspired) aspects of the organisation.
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230-246 pages 2011 Tim Carroll Samina Karim View on: Google Scholar

Conference
Management

“A Model Of Entrepreneurial Intentions Within The Persons With Disabilities Population”

While self-employment presents many challenges, an entrepreneurial path for a person with a
disability can mean the difference between unemployment or severe underemployment and a truly
exceptional and prosperous career. Recent research highlights the importance of entrepreneurial
intentions (i.e., the interest of a person in starting, acquiring or buying a business) as a precursor
to entrepreneurial behavior (Zhao et al., 2005). Further, entrepreneurial self-efficacy (Zhao et al.,
2005), defined as the level of confidence individuals have to identify new opportunities, create
products, think creatively, or commercialize an idea, is positively associated with entrepreneurial
intention. In reviewing the literature on people with disabilities, however, we find reason to believe
that this model does not fully explain the entrepreneurial activities of persons with disabilities.
Thus, we integrate the literatures on entrepreneurship and people with disabilities to propose a
refined model. A few of the propositions offered by our model are included below.
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Article 4 pages 2008 Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: David Baldridge Clay Dibrell Don Neubaum