Research
Research is a vital and expanding arena of Management Resource Associates work, services and mission. Staff and associates are committed to thought leadership, best practices and adding to the current body of theoretical and applied knowledge. In many cases, research is conducted by working in collaboration with clients to design and conduct empirical, applied and action research directly in the field.
Current and past research projects and topics include:- The dynamics and characteristics of collaborative work groups
- Team performance measurement and benchmarking
- Major causes of team failure
- What followers expect from their leaders
- What we know and should anticipate about hyper-growth
- The traits and characteristics of high performing and growth sustaining organizations
- Managing performance and not personality
- The impact of overt and covert attitudes on performance
- Why bright and talented leaders fail
- Factors that promote performance and productivity in organizational settings
- Learning styles and their impact on performance
- Why employees resist change
- Performance myths and fables
- The dysfunctional executive
- Organizational cultural and life stages and their impact on growth and performance
- Creating reward and incentive systems that optimize performance
- The integration of diverse cultures in an M&A transaction
- High performance work organization practices
- Building a performance management program
- Employee motivation: a new and state-of-the art model
- Steering a business turnaround
- Reshaping the organizational learning function