Have you ever come across this familiar scenario in your organisation? Talented, sharp-minded employees gradually become difficult to manage. They question decisions, resist obedience, and challenge authority in meetings. Managers often privately complain that their star performers are capable, but too insubordinate.

On the morning of April 23, two announcements arrived from opposite ends of the technology industry's personality spectrum, and together they said something neither company intended to say alone.

For decades, annual performance reviews have been a defining feature of performance management in organisations. But as work becomes more dynamic and human-centred, are they still relevant?

"The outcome was not what anyone expected." 

"'Neijuan' isn’t just a mood; it is the visible product of structural forces that push people and firms into escalating, largely zero-sum competition.”

“The competitive frontier has shifted from who has the best-designed components to who can recombine them fastest, again and again, under pressure.”

OBHDP Paper Development Workshop is designed to provide focused, high-value developmental dialogue for researchers at all career stages. Featuring distinguished Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors as guest panelists, this interactive workshop aims to support participants in refining their ongoing research projects and preparing rigorous, competitive manuscripts for submission to Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP) and other leading academic journals. Through in-person presentations, intensive roundtable discussions, and targeted face-to-face feedback sessions, we aim to foster rigorous research innovation and elevate the overall quality of scholarly work across the broader communities of organisational behaviour, human resources, applied psychology, marketing, and consumer research.

The Organisational Behaviour/Human Resource Management Department of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) invites you to attend the 6th Annual CEIBS OB/HR Symposium in Shanghai on November 19. This symposium aims to discuss challenges and opportunities for sustainable development faced by leaders and their organisations. The morning session will focus on topics around sustainability, while the afternoon session will focus on technology and change. If you would like to join this event, please register now as seats are limited.

The CEIBS OB/HR Symposium is a forum for academics to discuss their latest research in organisational behaviour and human resource management topics. This year, we will examine how employees and organisations respond to and manage uncertainty. The morning session focuses on the individual-level topics while the afternoon session relates to organisation-level issues.