Walt Disney has reached a $100 million settlement with workers who allege company participation in a no-poaching "gentleman's agreement" with other studios to not hire one another's employees to suppress wages. Disney and three units are the last defendants in the case, in which DreamWorks Animation paid $50 million and two Sony Pictures units and Blue Sky Studios paid $19 million total. Bloomberg (1/31)
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This chart shows the kind of leader you are Managers can gain self-awareness about how they lead and find ways to improve or capitalize on strengths by answering questions in this flowchart. The chart leads to six leadership styles, including visionary, democratic and commanding. Lifehacker (1/29)
Benefits & Compensation
Incentive pay can have negative effects, study says Pay incentives based on work performance might not increase productivity because the extra work put in by employees is offset by stress and dissatisfaction, according to a study by the Human Resource Management Journal. "As a consequence, performance-related pay may be considered exploitative, or a management strategy that increases both earnings and work intensification," said Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, the study's lead author. Business News Daily (1/25)
CEO: Be yourself, not what you think people expect Sheryl Palmer, CEO of the home-building company Taylor Morrison, takes her shoes off whenever she can because it makes her feel more authentic and accessible in her working life. "As silly as that sounds, that's who I am, and the day that I have to change who I am to do my job will be the day I really don't want to do it anymore," she says. The New York Times (free-article access for SmartBrief readers) (1/27)
