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Development of graphical methods for representing data has not kept up with progress in statistical techniques. This article presents a brief history of graphical representations of research findings and makes the case for a revival of methods developed in the early and mid-twentieth century, notably ISOTYPE and Chernoff's faces. It resurrects and improves a procedure, clustered iconography, which enables the presentation of multidimensional data through which readers engage more effectively with the presentation's central message by way of an easier understanding of relationships between variables. The proposed technique is especially well adapted to the needs and protocols of open-source research.

Although the practice of executive coaching has received sustained attention in literature, no theoretical framework exists to guide the language of conversations that aims to improve executive performance. This article addresses this omission. Following Richard Weaver, it resurrects an ancient distinction between noble and base language and combines this distinction with a linguistic hierarchy. Noble language culminates in and gives voice to optimal executive performance; as such, it is the ideal language of executive coaching. Contributions to theory and research, practical and educational implications, and a call to action are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates why management research, which ostensibly embraces scientific protocols and is reported to be practically relevant, is often not so. The “implications for practice” sections of elite management journals were reviewed and analyzed as the basis for the present study. The analytic–synthetic distinction—central to logical positivism and crucial to the reporting of the findings of science, but rarely applied within management academia—reveals that management researchers who commit to science, as logical positivists conceive of it, typically use language in a way that is not especially helpful for managers. Reasons explaining this state of affairs are explored and corrective measures proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the relationship between unselfconscious corporate virtuosity and corporate performance using a novel methodology. It contends that honesty in presenting CSR activities is a proxy for corporate virtuosity and that syntheticity of language indexes unselfconscious honesty in corporate reporting. The study's research question is: Is there evidence that being more corporately ethical in the absence of concern about being so perceived enhances hardcore measures of organisational performance? To answer this question, a linguistic analysis of sustainability reports of firms operating in the Mining, Crude Oil Production Industry is undertaken to reveal that firms' financial performance varies as a function of a particular kind of straightforward language use in corporate reporting. This exercise provides evidence that unselfconscious corporate virtuosity is associated with better corporate financial performance. Implications for practice of this finding are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, management practice as professional endeavors. However, such an emphasis on theory glosses over one of its constraining and particularized roles in scientific explanation, namely that theory codifies predictive knowledge. Committing to a 'traditional' or 'critical' understanding of theory thus amounts to embracing the view that prediction is achievable within a circumscribed field of study. Such an embrace is non-controversial in natural science. However, within the realm of management studies, it necessitates and smuggles in a strawman view of human existence, one which does not accommodate freedom and responsibility. This limitation of management theory explains its inadequate utility. This article argues that alternative avenues for management research exist. JEL CLASSIFICATION: M10 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mainstream as well as critical management history literature typically establishes theorists as the most consequential protagonists in the process that created the default blueprint for employee superintendence. Accordingly, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the new capitalists and their agents (the emerging management class), were theoretically ill-equipped to oversee large scale productive transformation. Hence, they turned to experts, mostly scholars who straddled the worlds of academia and the nascent enterprise of industrial consulting. In this version of events, employees are represented in strawman terms, as either passive or predictable; in either case, as hostile but unsophisticated actors. This article presents and defends an alternative portrayal. It argues that management thought was not born of purely theoretical perspectives but, rather, is the product of a contest between theory and what employees, acting as intellectual equals, revealed to employers and pundits when theories were being applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic and priorities and aspirations of generations X and Y and, obviously, the modern issue of work-life balance. It mentions issues regarding work by practicing social distancing and collective bargaining and the current asymmetry between capital and labor and change the orthodox labor relations research agenda. It also mentions uranium mining through the prism of professional identities.