Phys.org October 9, 2024 An international team of researchers (UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Columbia Business School) support the benefits of passion. They revealed significant variability in the size of the effect. To explain this heterogeneity, they proposed that passion is associated with performance overconfidence—inflated views about how well the self is performing and that this association provides a helpful lens in understanding when passion will be beneficial for performance. A daily diary field study with 829 employees (33,160 observations) and an experiment with 396 participants provided evidence that passion is associated with performance overconfidence. These findings provided a lens through […]
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Study finds working from home stifles innovation
Phys.org July 30, 2024 After the Covid-19 pandemic firms are now struggling to implement a return to working from the office (WFO), as employees enjoy the significant benefits of working from home (WFH) for their work-life balance. An international team of researchers (USA -University of Chicago, Germany, UK) used unique and detailed data from an Indian IT services firm which contains a precise measure of innovation activity of over 48,000 employees in these three work environments. The key outcomes were the quantity and quality of ideas submitted by employees. Based on an event study design, the quantity of ideas did […]