Articles by Charles D. Kerns, PhD, MBA
Charles D. Kerns, PhD, MBA, is an associate professor of applied behavioral science at the Graziadio School of Business and Management. He has more than 30 years of business, management, and consulting experience. Through his private consulting firm, Corperformance, he has implemented performance management programs and systems to help companies from many industries maximize their results. Since 1980, he has taught in almost every program in the Graziadio School, first as an adjunct faculty member, then, since 2000, as a member of the full-time faculty. He has also served as the associate dean for Academic Affairs. Dr. Kerns holds a Diplomate, ABPP, in both Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Organizational-Business Consulting Psychology.
UPDATE: Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Workplace Culture
The formula I offered for creating and sustaining an ethical workplace culture in 2003 is still valid today. Indeed, virtuous values, actions and behavioral standards/codes can be the basis for an approach to help drive ethical organizational behavior.
The Trybaby Syndrome
This article identifies the Trybaby Syndrome as a performance challenge and introduces a “Performance Influence-Importance Matrix” to help managers.
Putting Performance and Happiness Together in the Workplace
A presentation of tools to become a happy high-performing role model for others and moving toward building and sustaining a high performing happy workplace.
Performance-Happiness Self-Assessment Survey
An informal self-assessment intended to help you look at some of the ways to improve performance and attain happiness at work.
Assertive Performance Feedback
This article provides guidance for improving performance by offering a clear and concrete “tool” for effective performance feedback.
Gratitude at Work
Gratitude is not just a “feel good” emotion when it comes to organizational life. It can benefit an organization in many ways.
The Positive Psychology Approach to Goal Management
Positive Psychology provides guidance to help leaders more effectively manage goals by focusing on such factors as personal values, persistence, and confidence.
Strengthening Value-Centered Ethics (Part 3)
Dr. Kerns discusses “virtuous values” that appear to have nearly universal appeal across cultures.
Strengthening Value-Centered Ethics (Part 2)
Effectively executing managerial leadership action roles that are aligned with a set of virtuous values can boost an organization’s economic and ethical bottom lines.
Strengthening Values Centered Leadership
Dr. Charles Kerns writes about the creation of an ethical culture in business and the important role of managers in the creation of this culture.
