Organizations increasingly face a crisis of communication integrity characterized by statements made without regard for truth—a phenomenon known as workplace bullshit. Unlike deliberate deception, bullshit reflects fundamental indifference to factual accuracy, with bullshitters prioritizing agenda advancement over vera...
Jonathan H. Westover· Human Capital Leadership Rev...· 0 citations
Workplace ostracism—the deliberate withholding of information, resources, access, and social support from targeted employees—represents one of the most insidious forms of managerial misconduct in contemporary organizations. Often described colloquially as "freezing out," this behavior circumvents legitimate performance...
Jonathan H. Westover· Workplace Culture: The Journ...· 0 citations
This paper develops the idea of systemic gaslighting as a way of explaining why organisations keep blaming individuals for failures that clearly grow out of systems, structures and politics (Reason, 1997; Tourish, 2019).
The paper is a conceptual, critical synthesis. It brings together work on organisational...
Gerard Bruijl· Journal of Organizational Ch...· 0 citations
Organizations increasingly recognize that sustainable competitive advantage stems not from consensus, but from the productive harnessing of cognitive diversity and constructive dissent. This article examines the evidence linking psychological safety—defined as a shared belief that interpersonal risk-taking is welcomed—...
Jonathan H. Westover· Human Capital Leadership Rev...· 0 citations
Organizational typologies—such as those developed by Miles and Snow, Porter, and Mintzberg—have long served as foundational frameworks for strategic decision-making and organizational design. Yet practitioners and scholars often treat these typologies as indivisible wholes, overlooking the possibility that not all elem...
Jonathan H. Westover· Human Capital Leadership Rev...· 0 citations
Strategic management has reached opposite conclusions about executive overconfidence. One body of work links it to inflated acquisition premiums, escalating commitment and misreporting; another to innovation, market entry and venture persistence. The field has reconciled these findings by adding moderators, which prese...
Tobias Nakamura, Ingrid Solberg, Owen Kirkwood· Digital Enterprise Studies· 0 citations
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