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In Serbia, citizens are reluctant to become politically active but young leaders Babović and Stojicic, the case protagonists, are determined to prod their peers into taking a stronger role in the country's government. Using community organizing principles, they launch Serbia on the Move, a nongovernmental organization created to organize and energize citizens to drive change in Serbia. On several occasions, Serbia on the Move's leaders find themselves at odds with the Serbian government as they campaign for the adoption of anti-corruption practices, maternity benefits and other programs and policies. The case describes the organization from its founding through its quest to scale nationally and its goals of building a strong organizational structure, volunteer base and impactful campaigns. Case number 2108.0

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Sushma Industries Private Limited (SIPL) wanted to accelerate its growth after two decades as a small enterprise. Enabling growth required having the right talent in place, by first attracting these employees, and then evaluating and appropriately rewarding their performance. The new chief executive officer hired a human resources specialist to design and implement a compensation structure to recognize the changing competitive environment and to align SIPL's human capital strategy with the organization's strategic goals. The human resources specialist faced the challenges of establishing a new compensation structure in a growing organization, timing the change appropriately in the organization's growth journey, and aligning and positioning it to fit within the current organizational and industry context.

The co-founder of Tier1 Coaching and Development, Inc., a small training and development firm, had to hire an entirely new staff after 10 years in business. Drew Nault was one of the first three on that new team, and he was hired into a newly created position that merged two different sets of operational responsibilities. Over time, Nault realized he was frequently asked to justify what he was working on and how it added value. This case provides an opportunity to critically examine an employee's struggles with job expectations and performance objectives in a newly created position within a small firm. What steps can be taken to address the job and career concerns? What exit strategy might be needed? Students also examine the employee's perceived psychological contract with his employer. The Instructor's Manual details a number of potential structural, managerial and interpersonal sources for the problems encountered. This case is best suited for graduate students or advanced undergraduate students.

Social media company Buffer wanted to establish clear company values early in its growth. One of these values was a commitment to transparency in its company practices. Buffer openly shared its business strategies and fundraising decks, among lots of other information. Even when they were hacked, the company live-blogged updates to keep their users informed as the situation unfolded. Having internally released each employee's salary and equity details with no pushback, the company now contemplated sharing compensation information transparently with the general public.

Buffer decided to release its salaries and compensation calculation formula to the public, and the public reaction was greater and more positive than they would have imagined. The company experienced both an increase in volume and a change in the kinds of inbound applications they received. As the company continued to grow, Buffer's senior leaders continued to revise the compensation formula based on feedback both internally and from the public. Particularly, they hoped to strengthen the link between pay and performance, which in the current version of the formula was incorporated using a loosely defined "experience level" component. However, defining clear performance metrics and experience levels was not an easy task.

Managerial, executive, and entrepreneurial success requires the ability to negotiate. The essential reading and recommended module plan will help readers become more effective negotiators by: 1) mastering a negotiation framework that will help them analyze, prepare for, and execute negotiations more systematically-and hence, more effectively-in a wide variety of contexts; 2) building a negotiation toolkit that consists of practical strategies for creating and capturing value in negotiation; and 3) learning how to create a negotiation environment that helps diagnose individual needs, and allows negotiators to identify techniques for mitigating weaknesses and leveraging their strengths. The supplemental reading addresses two additional topics: cross-cultural negotiations and gender issues in negotiation.

The Facilitative Leader: Managing Performance Without Controlling People is a five-chapter book written by Steve Reilly, an author, business coach, and consultant to Fortune 100 companies. It provides tools to new managers who are struggling to figure out how to lead a team without being too controlling. He stresses that providing clear expectations, honest and constructive feedback, and personal accountability, it is possible to manage people's performance without controlling their behavior. In Chapter 1, the author outlines six factors that impact a person's ability to perform in their role: selection, expectations, resources, motivation, feedback, and accountability. He argues that managers can control these factors and therefore the performance of the people they manage. He writes that managers owe employees accountability so that employees can learn and grow in their positions. He then outlines the characteristics of autocratic behaviorist leaders and facilitative leaders, which will serve as the foundation for his discussion of leadership throughout the book.

The Facilitative Leader: Managing Performance Without Controlling People is a five-chapter book written by Steve Reilly, an author, business coach, and consultant to Fortune 100 companies. It provides tools to new managers who are struggling to figure out how to lead a team without being too controlling. He stresses that providing clear expectations, honest and constructive feedback, and personal accountability, it is possible to manage people's performance without controlling their behavior. In Chapter 2, Reilly begins by arguing that most managers do a poor job of communicating expectations, even though this type of communication is essential to ensuring the success of both the manager and the people under him or her. He explains that when managers don't set expectations, employees get them from other sources. He outlines two types of expectations, standards and goals, and describes the case of Genie Industries, a company that has used an "Expectation Letter" to communicate expectations and ensure mutual accountability. He then describes how to effectively use these types of letters and further develops his understanding of standards and goals.

The Facilitative Leader: Managing Performance Without Controlling People is a five-chapter book written by Steve Reilly, an author, business coach, and consultant to Fortune 100 companies. It provides tools to new managers who are struggling to figure out how to lead a team without being too controlling. He stresses that providing clear expectations, honest and constructive feedback, and personal accountability, it is possible to manage people's performance without controlling their behavior. In Chapter 3, Reilly provides rules that should guide managers as they give feedback to employees. He states that cheerleading is not a form of effective feedback. The rules he outlines include being honest and constructive, getting to the point, and establishing a dialogue (not a monologue). He instructs managers to understand the difference between praise and encouragement (which is more constructive and focuses on behavior rather than value judgments). Finally, the author tells managers how to give constructive feedback.

The Facilitative Leader: Managing Performance Without Controlling People is a five-chapter book written by Steve Reilly, an author, business coach, and consultant to Fortune 100 companies. It provides tools to new managers who are struggling to figure out how to lead a team without being too controlling. He stresses that providing clear expectations, honest and constructive feedback, and personal accountability, it is possible to manage people's performance without controlling their behavior. In Chapter 4, the author discusses why getting people to hold themselves accountable to their expectations is always better than forcing accountability on them. He defines the former as self-management and the latter as control. The best managers, then, facilitate accountability by making employees confident and giving them some control over their own work. Reilly also discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the pros and cons of both. He then outlines three tools that facilitative leaders have to help people become more responsible: feedback, strategic nonintervention, and choice of consequences.

The Facilitative Leader: Managing Performance Without Controlling People is a five-chapter book written by Steve Reilly, an author, business coach, and consultant to Fortune 100 companies. It provides tools to new managers who are struggling to figure out how to lead a team without being too controlling. He stresses that providing clear expectations, honest and constructive feedback, and personal accountability, it is possible to manage people's performance without controlling their behavior. In Chapter 5, Reilly describes how managers should have "come to Jesus" conversations with employees. He instructs them to frame the conversation in order to be firm and clear and impose a consequence that makes employees change their behavior or attitude. He then outlines how facilitative leadership can work in the context of American businesses.

This special issue explores the impacts of behavioral strategy on management practice. Behavioral strategy can best contribute to management practice by shifting its focus from individual decision biases to the design of behaviorally informed decision processes at the level of the firm. This introduction identifies three types of organizational decision processes, shows how they interact with individual and group biases, and proposes a model showing how managers can design and deploy these processes to shape the strategy of the firm. It then introduces the articles in this special issue and discusses their contributions to the future of behavioral strategy.

Despite the consensus that climate change will have huge consequences not just for the planet but also on corporate operations, businesses continue to fail to adjust their strategic decision-making processes to become more sustainable. One of the silent culprits behind climate change inertia lies in the cognitive biases at play in corporate decision making. This article builds on existing strategic decision-making models to explain how biases prevent managers from accurately identifying the moral dimensions of climate change. It also presents a broad range of practical interventions for how this constraint can be overcome.

Frustrated by some of his experience with public/private partnerships, the author began daydreaming about how State Street, which has a large charitable foundation, could attack the problem of workforce development. The foundation was already spending millions of dollars a year in the areas of education and job training, and State Street is one of Boston's largest employers: It could provide a job and a career at the end of a young person's education, which nonprofits could not. Furthermore, the company is full of Millennials who want to volunteer as mentors. In 2015 Hooley and his team launched Boston WINs ("workforce investment networks"). They committed to investing $20 million and hiring 1,000 graduates of urban schools over the next four years.

The Awethu Project (Awethu) was a South African-based social enterprise that operated as a venture capital and investment firm for small, medium, and micro-sized enterprises. The company was widely acknowledged for its social mission of creating jobs and benefiting society while maximizing profit. In March 2016, Awethu's leaders signed an agreement with a prominent South African corporation, which could allow Awethu to operate within a higher segment, bringing the company closer to fulfilling its strategy. But Awethu continued to wrestle with a number of challenges, such as its socioeconomic environment and strategic focus decisions, and the question of how to continually attract capital and deliver on the company's vision. Finding themselves at an important moment in their company's history, Awethu's leaders considered how the new partnership could help Awethu address these looming challenges, while creating sustainable profit and value.

Ratan Tata began his journey with the Tata group on the shop floor of the Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited and eventually rose to become chairman of the Tata group-a conglomerate with operations in more than 80 countries across six continents. Known as a value-based, principled, and visionary leader, Ratan Tata helped the Tata group grow immensely over two decades of leadership. When he retired in 2012, he passed the leadership to a new chairman. However, four years later, on October 24, 2016, the Tata Sons board, which controlled the Tata group, decided to replace the chairman. His ousting led to a public clash over ethics and corporate governance at the top of the Tata empire. Ratan Tata was asked to return as interim chairman and help find a new successor. How could he succeed in this task and help the Tata group retain its glory, without compromising its values and beliefs?

In February 2013, the vice-president of human resources at PowerTech India Private Limited (PowerTech India), was in his office at the company's Gurgaon headquarters studying the organizational chart of his firm with interest. In his seven-year tenure with the company, he had watched the organization grow considerably. What he loved most about his job was the company's commitment to follow best practices in human resources management and the people-oriented approach that made the work a creative, feel-good, and dynamic process. In this highly competitive power sector, expansion had been the catchphrase of the organization as it strove to carve a niche for itself; now retention of talent was more crucial than ever. But after meeting with PowerTech India's managing director, the vice-president wondered if the expected turbulent times required a reconsideration of the company's key human resource policies, which had become a hallmark of the organization. Redesigning the workforce at PowerTech India would be a delicate balancing act.

Galya Frayman Molinas, President of Coca-Cola's Turkish Business and a 20-year company veteran, is unexpectedly asked to take the helm of a newly expanded territory with operations across eight additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. With seemingly competing instructions to accelerate growth, while not diluting focus in Turkey or Central Asia, Molinas must decide how to balance change versus continuity across functions and country locations. In the meantime, tensions arise amongst the newly combined members of her business unit, as some fear being sidelined or losing their autonomy. Molinas wonders whether her team's leadership is too homogenous to manage this diverse and disgruntled group across emerging markets. Centralizing, decentralizing, or creating a hybrid structure is now Molinas' first priority. On top of these pressing organizational issues, shortly after assuming her new role, domestic and international events suddenly derail her unit's 17 consecutive months of record-breaking performance. Molinas and her largely female and Turkish senior leadership team grapples with the significant financial impact of massive protests in Turkey, the rise of anti-American sentiments, growing national health concerns, the reduction of the U.S. FED's financial stimulus, and capital flight from emerging markets. While Turkey's revenue is in a precipitous decline, Molinas needs the Central Asian region to help alleviate the financial gap during this turbulent time. Molinas questions whether her unit's structure and her homogenous senior team's background are too narrow to help her counteract the external crises.