Tag: organizational behavior

Research by Olin’s Andrew Knight and Markus Baer on the positive effects of standing up – instead of sitting – at meetings continues to get media coverage. Entrepreneur points to the research in a recent online article, “Want More Productive Meetings? Try Getting Rid of the Chairs.” Article includes an interview with Prof. Knight who explains, “Our research shows that if people are standing up in a meeting, they are less protective of their own ideas, which allows other people to build on, extend and modify the contributions that people are making in the group. It makes people more collaborative.”

Knight and Baer teach and research in the area of organizational behavior. Their work was featured in the 2014 edition of Olin Praxis, Research that Impacts Business. Watch video of the professors explaining their studies of meetings and findings.

Men and women were found to communicate better with each other when sticking to a “politically correct norm.”  Michelle Duguid, organizational behavior professor at Olin, is a co-author of the new research that is currently under review for publication. An article about the study appeared on the Campus Reform website.

Meet Michelle Duguid in this video.

St. Louis is a long way from her native Barbados, but Michelle Duguid has adjusted to life on the shores of the Mississippi as an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Olin since 2009. Her areas of research include: group demography and social status; group creativity and decision-making.

Duguid’s research paper, “Female Tokens in High-Prestige Work Groups: Catalysts or Inhibitors of Group Diversification?” was featured in Olin Praxis: Research that Impacts Business in 2012.

Read more about a new course on Women and Leadership that Duguid is co-teaching this semester with Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop.