Strategic Seminar（2014-01）

Topic：Emotional Teaching: How CEOs develop Top Management Teams in Chinese Firms

Speaker:Weiru Chen, China Europe International Business School

Time:: Thursday, 20 February,10:00-11:30am

Location:Room217, Guanghua Building 2

Abstract：

Firms that operate in fast emerging economies often experience scarcity in managerial human capital, in particular competencies in general, strategic management to guide the fast growth of their firms. Based on a two-year inductive study of three Chinese firms, we found that CEOs develop their top management teams (TMTs) by using a rich set of what we call cognitive actions as well as affective actions to develop the managerial competence of their TMT members. We call this combined use of cognitive and affective actions “emotional teaching” and show how it is used in the process of CEOs recruiting, training, and evaluating members of their top teams.Our research contributes to the TMT literature that has under-researched how CEOs actually form and develop their TMTs in organizational settings.

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