Thomas Roulet

Essays in Management and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future of a Generative Genre Click on the article title to read more.

What do we look for when we consider proposals for essays at the Journal of Management Studies, and why those criteria matter (a useful reminder as 3/4 of the proposals we receive have nothing to do with the remit of JMS Says!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Can Cambridge be a model for kick-starting the British economy? An ambitious plan aims to double the size of the city and make it a hub for growth and innovation. But will its infrastructure cope?

Can Cambridge be a model for kick-starting the British economy? on.ft.com/4hZGrDb

Overreliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health The technology promises productivity gains but too much focus on machines could erode socialisation and friendship

Overreliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health
The technology promises productivity gains but too much focus on machines could erode socialisation and friendship www.ft.com/content/af77...

What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi “To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.

This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

Hi Cambridge students & colleagues,

Are you passionate about inclusion in the workplace? Come join us for the next ThinkLab Ideas Challenge on March 28th!

Sign up to be part of a team challenge (with funding available for the winning ideas) here:

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Meta's 'low performer' layoffs disputed by fired staffers and criticized by experts Meta says it's most recent round of layoffs was aimed at 'low performers'—not everyone agrees.

😒 Massive layoffs at #Meta/ #Facebook targeting so called "low performers"
My views in @fortune.com
👉 The term is meaningless and be used on the pretense of objectivity fortune.com/2025/02/13/m...

👭 How does remote work affect #gender #discrimination?
🙅‍♀️ A new study published in Organization Science tests the fact that gender differences are less salient in the context of remote work. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America If Argentina repeals its femicide law, it could have a ripple effect across Latin America.

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America
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🤔Looking for concrete and practical mental health skills for the modern workplace?
🙌Stay tuned for "Wellbeing Intelligence: Building Better Mental Health at Work" to be release in July amazon.co.uk/Wellbeing-In...

Honoured to share my predictions for 2025 with @jagolinzer.bsky.social, Lucia Reisch, @thomroulet.bsky.social, @jaideepprabhu.bsky.social and and David Reiner @cambridgejudge.bsky.social in Poets&Quants. Despite writing individuals, there ar shared commone themes.

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Tomorrow at 12pm! The ThinkLab is teaming up with the Staff Wellbeing Team to host this event on sharing experiences and feedback to create the University Staff Wellbeing Action Plan for fostering a supportive workplace.

@thinklab.bsky.social
@thomroulet.bsky.social
#cambridge
#wellbeing

A Social Science of Caregiving

This CASBS podcast episode attracted the most unique listeners in 2024. Recorded before a live audience, @mlevi.bsky.social, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a multi-disciplinary reimagining of caregiving

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Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly Prof Low anticipated home speakers and gender neutral clothing, but missed his mark on herb-based street lighting

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Shake shack has gone down Hill in the last decade! Honest or steak & honour ftw

3️⃣ to use concepts and frameworks with rigour: Nothing more practical than a good theory when it has been empirically supported. It enables people to better understand new and complex situations through a lens that can cut through that complexity.
🚨 Good luck to all candidates!

2️⃣ to assess evidence: Undergraduate degrees in the UK have an important research component. Why? Because there is a value in a scientific method that assesses the empirical backing for each argument.

1️⃣ to think critically: consider where information and knowledge come from, take perspective when needed, and see flaws in arguments presented to them.

💬 The interviews are an important part of the Oxbridge admission system and reflect on the benefits of a university education in the era of #GenAI that makes people believe expertise and knowledge can simply be built by asking prompts.
👋 We encourage students around three dimensions:

💫 Tomorrow is the start of admissions interviews at the University of Cambridge. Like every year I will be interviewing candidates in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences for King's College, Cambridge
🤔 A thread

Glad to see the research programme on caste inequalities led by Hari Bapuji & Sneha Chrispal - which I have been part of as a co author and host of the first conference on caste inequalities in Cambridge - to be recognised by the Australian Business Deans Council.

Interesting new paper in The Economic Journal.
The study relies on machine learning to show that the political leanings of economists influence the language they use, but also the very estimates they produce in a way that aligns the policy being promoted with their partisan opinion.

“Abuser” or “Tough Love” Boss?: The moderating role of leader performance in shaping the labels employees use in response to abusive supervision We invoke leader categorization theory and labeling theory to examine the circumstances under which individuals come to perceive their managerial lead…

3️⃣ In sum, leader performance moderates the relationship between abusive supervision and how followers perceive and behave toward their leaders.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2️⃣ Leader performance influences outcomes: As expected, when leaders are perceived as abusive, their subordinates are more hostile.
When they are labelled as engaging in "Tough Love" followers develop higher career expectations.

💡 Key Insights:
1️⃣ High-performing leaders are less likely to be labeled as "abusers" despite exhibiting abusive supervision behaviors. Instead, they are more often seen as "tough love" bosses.

👹 When does abusive supervision and managers pass as "tough love"?
💔 According to a recent piece in OBHDP by Robert Lount Woohee Choi & B J Tepper it's all about the perceived performance of those supervisors or managers.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Jeff Bezos says Elon Musk's claims are '100% not true' after the Tesla CEO reignites their feud Elon Musk posted a claim on X about Jeff Bezos that he said he learned at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos responded, saying Musk's assertion was "100% not true."

Musk said Bezos told people they should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock because Donald Trump would lose. It is a way to give himself an excuse to legitimately try to influence regulation to his advantage, by saying that 'Bezos started it' www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-je...

@tylershores.bsky.social and Colleen Mayowski talking about 'what works' - evidence based insights into community impact.

Self efficacy around writing leads to increased writing output. Even one hour a week of shut up and write has a statistically significant impact on productivity

Fascinating discussion between @tylershores.bsky.social and Colleen Mayowski at the #shitupandwrite symposium. Discussion topic: What works? Evidence-based insights into community impact