Tag: Leadership

cross-cultural management, Culture, Emigration, Generations, International business, Migration, publications, Research, Uncategorized, VALUEHOST

Understanding Openness to Change among Lithuanian Generations

VALUEHOST is a three-year research project funded by the Lithuanian Research Council. We explore changing Lithuanian values, with a focus on emigrants and their experiences in their host countries. In this post, I introduce some interesting findings from one of our studies on changing values at home. We have analyzed data between the years 2010-2020, from the European Social Survey database on individuals’ values. In … Continue reading Understanding Openness to Change among Lithuanian Generations

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Burnout, COVID, Generations, Leadership, Remote work, Research, Uncategorized, Wellbeing

Coping during the Pandemic: What a Difference a Generation Makes!

Audra I. Mockaitis (School of Business, Maynooth University) Christina L. Butler (Kingston University Business School) We present results from the first of a multi-part study that aims to gauge the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to people’s work-related and general wellbeing, and whether individuals with certain characteristics are better able to cope with these disruptions. We examine whether different generations are experiencing and … Continue reading Coping during the Pandemic: What a Difference a Generation Makes!

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Culture, Global teams, Leadership, Uncategorized

Making a difference through global leadership

I am pleased to be a part of a recently published book, the Research Handbook of Global Leadership: Making a Difference (Lena Zander, Ed.).  The book’s publication is timely, as leadership in these uncertain times becomes ever more important. Many international organizations are and will be facing numerous challenges and will need to develop  new strategies, skills and ways to overcome them. More than ever … Continue reading Making a difference through global leadership

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Global teams, Leadership, Virtual teams

TAP YOUR VIRTUAL TEAM’S POTENTIAL.

More and more organizations are tapping into the benefits of virtual teams to achieve cost efficiencies, greater flexibility and faster turnaround times for complex projects. Managing an international virtual team has numerous challenges associated with physical, temporal and cultural distance, yet, in many industries, global virtual teams are fast becoming organizations’ raison d’etre, a new form of organizing work that helps both large and small … Continue reading TAP YOUR VIRTUAL TEAM’S POTENTIAL.

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