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Give the public sector the leadership it deserves
"Two feet on the ground, getting people moving. Not waiting for the mandate. Daring to look in the mirror every day. Not the leadership but the effect."
These are some testimonies about leadership from the participants of the AMS Masterclass Leadership for the public and social profit sector. Throughout the course, they took the step from "socialized" to "self-authoring": from using social leadership benchmarks to developing their own definition about what is needed and appropriate. A crucial step toward the leaders the public sector needs to properly address today's many challenges.
A. Rahim Massoud
AMS campus is the new home of "Deep South" by the Ghent-based artist Bahati Simoens
We are very honored to partner with the Ace Foundation in giving a voice to the creative minds of artists like Bahati. Her beautiful work “Deep South” can be spotted on the first floor of our campus, right next to room 107.
How online business platforms could improve citizen services
In 2020, Yves Vanderbeken graduated from the Executive Master in IT Governance and Assurance (aka MITGA). His research is still a burning topic in our society: how to find and select the right citizen services from the government to help us? And how could online service platforms improve these citizen services? In this blog, he shares some of his most recent findings.
The unfulfilled promise of HR Analytics
The use of data is becoming more and more pervasive in our private lives, yet the incorporation of data in HR takes off on a very slow pace. Only one in five companies in Europe has people analytics projects. Why does it seem to take so much longer for analytics to conquer the work context compared to our private lives?
Why FUD fails and BAD prevails in Digital Security
Many cyber security specialists or security software sales representatives want to convince people to act or buy certain products by frightening them with statements like: “If you don’t do (or buy) this, you will be hacked.” Sadly, this way of communicating is still an often-used approach in Information Security to get the message across or motivate people to “buy” their products or service. We call this the FUD approach. FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt and was introduced in the late eighties. As of 1991, the expression became fashionable for any form of disinformation used against the competition. FUD is a simple but effective strategy that supplies the audience with negative, fake, or false information to influence their behavior and decisions. FUD is so effective because adverse events have a more significant impact on our brain and associated attitudes than positive ones. In psychology, this is called negative bias. Negative bias can have an effect on behavior as well as your decisions. This is also why the news often spreads negative news because negative news draws greater attention and therefore sells.
Although this might be effective in the short term to get things done, this won’t be a very successful approach in the long term. In this blog I'd like to explain you why.
Jaime Bonache, PhD
Kateryna Podkalenko
Webinar: The impact of COVID-19 on the human capital of our organizations - 4
During this 4th webinar in the series "The Impact of COVID-19 on Human Capital in Our Organizations," we take another look at some of the key topics regarding human capital in your organization (in Dutch).