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Thomas Roulet

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Professor of Organisational Sociology and Leadership at the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School & King's College) 👉 Trying to make the future of work more human-centric

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Jan 16

🤔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...

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Mar 31

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....

Essays in Management and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future of a Generative Genre

Click on the article title to read more.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

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?

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Mar 16

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...

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

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Feb 18

😒 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...

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.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Feb 18

👭 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...

Location Matters: Everyday Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-site Work | Organization Science

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Tyler Shores @tylershores.bsky.social · Feb 18

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:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Jan 30

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America
theconversation.com/argentinas-p...

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.

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Tyler Shores @tylershores.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hey University of Cambridge Colleagues,

Tomorrow we'll be hosting a new event on working together to shape the future of staff wellbeing. Please share with friends and colleagues!

📅 Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 12 pm – 4:15 pm
📍 West Hub
🍽️ Free Lunch!

Info and register here: lnkd.in/dChfyQM7

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Monique Ingrid Boddington @miboddington.bsky.social · Jan 2

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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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 29

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · Dec 29

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

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#soci...

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 13

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

Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 8

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!

Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 8

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.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 8

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

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 8

💬 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:

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 8

💫 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

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Dec 4

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.

Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 26

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.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 25

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...

“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…

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 25

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.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 25

💡 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.

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 25

👹 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.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Nov 23

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

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 22

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...

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."

www.businessinsider.com

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Thomas Roulet @thomroulet.bsky.social · Nov 21

Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network on.ft.com/4fW12Yj

Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network

Creatives and freelancers miss opportunity and inspiration after decline of X

on.ft.com

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Jo Sutherst @josutherst.bsky.social · Nov 21

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

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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · Nov 21

@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

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