UCL School of Management

Martin Kilduff

Research

“Warm but incompetent”: The hidden harm of workplace gender stereotypes

Monday, 1 Sep
Upcoming research from UCL School of Management reveals that “dissonant ties” – relationships characterised by conflicting feelings, such as liking but not respecting someone, or disliking yet respecting them – disproportionately harm women in the workplace.
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UCL SoM Professors publish in Harvard Business Review: Cross-Silo Collaboration

Thursday, 16 May
UCL School of Management Professor Martin Kilduff and Associate Professor Sunny Lee have co-authored a significant article in the Harvard Business Review. Their research explores the benefits and hidden challenges of cross-silo collaboration in organisations and offers strategies to mitigate the associated challenges.
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UCL Professors ask: Do shared contacts lead to friendships or rivalries?

Friday, 10 May
UCL School of Management Professor Martin Kilduff, Associate Professor Sunny Lee, and PhD student Kun Wang investigate how individuals with overlapping contacts engage. Published in the Academy of Management Journal, their paper examines whether they form friendships or rivalries based on shared contacts and the potential threat of replacement.
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Professor Martin Kilduff’s research paper is published in INFORMS

Tuesday, 9 May
UCL School of Management Professor Martin Kilduff’s research paper titled 'The Strain of Spanning Structural Holes: How Brokering Leads to Burnout and Abusive Behavior' has been published in INFORMS Organizational Science Journal.
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Martin Kilduff wins Institute of Leadership Best Paper Award

Tuesday, 2 Oct
Martin Kilduff has the won the 'Best Paper Award' from the Institute of Leadership at the Ivey School, Western University, Canada.
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Senior leaders fail to connect useful workers together

Wednesday, 18 Apr
Powerful bosses can be “blind” to gaps in workplace connections between employees, finds new research by academics in the UK, the US and Germany.
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Becoming more conscientious

Friday, 13 Apr
What does the science say about how you can boost your conscientiousness? Are there specific things you can do to become more conscientious over time? Professor Martin Kilduff and Assistant Professor Blaine Landis have been discussing their ongoing research into becoming more conscientious in the Harvard Business Review
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Does your personality fit your network? It could be damaging to success at work

Thursday, 17 Aug
Your personality must fit with your network in order to be trusted and successful, new research from UCL School of Management and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, reveals. Otherwise, your friendships might clash with your job.
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UCL paper into group emotions wins Academy of Management award

Monday, 22 Aug
A new paper by Professor Martin Kilduff at UCL School of Management has won the prestigious “Best Annals Paper of the Year Award” from the Academy of Management Annals.
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Having the 'right' connections only gets you so far

Thursday, 1 Oct
Working with a highly reputable corporate leader may only help your career in the short term, a joint UCL study has found.