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In this article, we describe and analyze a way of teaching negotiation which recognizes and accepts paradoxes, such as caring and frustrating the students at the same time and helping them being more autonomous while manipulating them. In this analysis, the classroom is considered tantamount to...
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Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
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How does creativity play out in social conflict? Just like Mark Twain's observation about difference of opinion and … conflict. If creativity is applied to the handling of differences, the outcome might very well be a mutually beneficial …, integrative agreement; but just as well, creativity can be applied to contentiousness, pursuit of selfish interests, and …
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Researchers of group creativity have noted problems such as social loafing, "production blocking," and especially …
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Short Time Compensation [STC] was a key program in Germany to fight the crisis. However, STC is quite an old tool: in the past 100 years it has been used quite often and is very multifunctional. It stabilized employment in every kind of macroeconomic shock. After a brief look into the...
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general and application of Chinese Yin-Yang philosophy to organizational paradox research in particular. However, his … to solving paradox in general. This paper alerts Chinese management scholars to the danger of overconfidence and Chinese …
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, can raise total travel costs if drivers switch routes. We show that a paradox can also result when routes are fixed but … users choose when to travel. As is true of the Braess paradox, the paradox here arises when the inefficiency due to …
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