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The Gig economy & Group dynamics

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 21, Volume 3

The Gig Economy has been placed on number #4 on the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) Top 10 Workplace Trends. Internet, the sophistication of digital tools, shift in the nature of career aspirations, values, etc. of the Millennials & Gen Z, people not being bound by geographic locations are some factors leading to this boom of the gig …

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Effects Of Leadership On Team Dynamics And Performance

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 21, Volume 3

John Maxwell quoted that “Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.” John Maxwell’s definition does away with hierarchy and authority and instead focuses on the ability to influence. Leadership is defined as the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish the shared objective. Leadership is an influential process that enables managers to get their people to work willingly …

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Fostering an Open Culture for Team Effectiveness

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 21, Volume 3

Openness, Trust & Psychological Safety Openness is at the core of the concept of psychological safety. This concept was spoken about by Harvard’s Amy Edmondson in a 1999 journal article where she spoke of it in context to team learning and performance. She defined it as an absence of interpersonal fear and where people can speak up about work-related topics …

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Justice

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 20, Volume 3

Corporate social responsibility is a selfregulatory check for businesses to be socially accountable to their local and global community, customers, and stakeholders. It is based on the concept that businesses have a responsibility to do good. There are four main types of CSR activities: Environmental Responsibility: Research has found that just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of …

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Person fit for the job but is the Person fit for the Organisation?

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 20, Volume 3

Person job fit is a requirement is what most of the organizations look for when requiting but if we are looking at long term goals personorganization fit becomes an important aspect in the matrix. The most crucial question in P-O fit is how employees and organisations choose each other, why they continue to work together, and how compatibility affects that …

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Wellbeing in workplaces for 2022

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 20, Volume 3

This article addresses the need for wellbeing initiatives in the workplace as a silver bullet for thriving organizations. It covers highlights from 2021 that lay the ground for setting processes in organizations supporting positive mental health as an outcome. Lastly, I offer suggestions on creating a baseline to address these issues. 2022 is still a year of recovery from the …

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Collective sensemaking in the period of uncertainty and global crisis the Covid-19

Team IIBPAnveshan, Issue 20, Volume 3

Uncertainty is at the forefront of many crises, disasters, and emergencies, and the COVID-19 pandemic with the arrival of third-wave is no exception. We, as psychologists are concerned with the coming of organizational pressures on the team workers and changing patterns of behavior of staff members owing to new challenges both in structure and administrative field. We can begin to …

Team Effectiveness Across Virtual Environments

Team IIBPAnveshan, Emotional Intelligence, General Psychology, Issue 19, Mental Health, Volume 3

Almost two years ago we were plunged into the biggest crisis most of us had ever seen. Organizations that had dismissed remote working as a possibility, IT systems that weren’t ready for virtual working suddenly were forced into it. All industries, all functions, and all teams were forced into virtual working.   While some organizations naturally embraced it, the majority have ...

Lego: Inspiration For Change Management

Team IIBPAnveshan, Emotional Intelligence, General Psychology, Issue 19, Mental Health, Volume 3

Heraclitus said that “The only constant is change.” This oxymoron clearly defines what the human race has known throughout its existence. Kingdoms, races, species have come and gone, Earth has come to the brink of destruction and been revived. Nothing has remained as it was created since the dawn of time. Taking the analogy of the world and comparing it ...

Are We Ready For A 4 Day Work Week?

Team IIBPBusiness Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, General Psychology, Mental Health

By Sunith Kunder As the new year beckons, most professionals were excited by one particular labor code. The 4-day  week culture was seeming to finally arrive on our shores, with everyone looking forward to the very much needed and extended weekend.  But this excitement would be short-lived. The ministry has clarified that even if the new labor law comes into ...