Nigel Nicholson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Nicholson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholson |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Business School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Greek Hippic Contests
Hippic contests constituted a surprisingly complex and contested semiotic system. This essay examines the hierarchies that structured this system to show how hippic contests gave visible form to various values and hierarchies that underpinned the larger social order. Equestrian contests as a whole were privileged over gymnastic contests; certain equestrian events were privileged over others (chariot over horse, four-horse over two-horse, stallion…
Between physician and athlete: The idea of the trainer in epinician poetry
Trainers played an immensely important role in ancient sports. Yet, they often disappear in the descriptions of great athletic feats in epinician poetry, the poems of praise that celebrated great athletes in the ancient world. This paper examines the manner in which trainers fade from epinician narrative and argues that their disappearance may have to do with the nature of the body and the role of trainers and physicians in the Greek world. Admit…
When Athletic Victory and Fatherhood Did Mix: The Commemoration of Diagoras of Rhodes
The fame of the great boxer Diagoras of Rhodes was intimately, and uniquely, bound up with the fame of his children: for no other classical or archaic victor were his children so central to his own commemoration. This paper will explore that centrality, showing the extent to which Diagoras’ portrayal across all media — not only in epinician and sculptural dedications, but also in the oral tradition — was unique in emphasizing his status as a fath…
Nepotism
Epizephyrian Locri: Hagesidamus and Euthymus
This chapter explores the relationship between epinician and the “hero-athlete narrative” in Epizephyrian Locri. It argues that Hagesidamus’s victory ode, Pindar’s Olympian 10, and the hero-athlete narrative that told of Euthymus’ combat with the “hero of Temesa” are broadly contemporary and engage the same political questions, but in opposite ways. The ode promotes a vision of Locri as part of a larger Greek world, integrated into the Syracusan …
Conclusion
i have taken as my object in this study epinician’s fraught relationship with the oral tradition. I have argued that, as a genre, epinician is bound up with one particular genre within the mass of oral narratives that circulated, a genre I have termed the “hero-athlete narrative.” Epinician does not overtly recognize examples of this genre, which features extraordinary athletes who earn hero cult or complete outsize exploits beyond the lists that…
Beyond the Deinomenids
This chapter considers how far Deinomenid influence extended over epinician and the “hero-athlete narrative” by examining their deployment in Metapontum, a city that seems to have lain outside the Deinomenids’ sphere of influence. Bacchylides composed an ode at some point for the Metapontine Alexidamus and, while no hero-athlete narratives about Metapontine athletes are recorded, a narrative that was important in Metapontum, that of Aristeas of P…
Croton
This chapter explores the genesis of the opposition between epinician and the hero-athlete in the Greek west narrative through a comparison of the hero-athlete narrative of Philippus of Croton and the epinician commissioned from Simonides by Astylus, the sprinter who moved from Croton to Syracuse before the Olympics of 484. The two productions display similar differences to the epinician for Hagesidamus and the “hero of Temesa” narrative, and cha…
Sicily Under Gelon
This chapter pursues the opposition between epinician and the “hero-athlete narrative” prior to 480 by examining the treatment of Glaucus of Carystus, an athlete who emigrated to Sicily and served as one of Gelon’s lieutenants. He had commissioned an epinician from Simonides before he came to Sicily, but after his death Gelon created a complex statue group dedication commemorating both his own Olympic chariot victory and Glaucus’ athletic achieve…
Sicily Under and After Hieron
This chapter follows epinician and the “hero-athlete narrative” in the later years of Hieron’s reign and after the Deinomenid regime, and argues that epinician continued to be a defining Deinomenid form. Ergoteles of Himera commissioned an ode in 470 from Pindar that linked him to the regime, and promoted the same idea of athletics and of the athlete’s place in the world as the other Deinomenid epinicians. With the collapse of Deinomenid rule, th…
Self‐Regulation
Self‐regulation refers to a set of processes that enable individuals to guide their goal directed activities over time and across changing contexts.
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology is the name given to the multidisciplinary enterprise, across the life and social sciences, to use the developments of Darwinian theory and research over the past 60 years, to unify our understanding of human social behavior and identity. It has a proven ability to explain and unify the multiple meso‐level theories in the study of management, decision‐making, and organization.
Achievement, Need for
Need theory flourished as a school of Motivation theory from the 1930s to the 1970s, especially through the work of scholars such as Murray, Maslow, and Herzberg.
Affiliation, Need for
This is one of a trio of needs, along with power and achievement, extensively studied by David McClelland and followers.
Family Firms
Defining the family firm is not straightforward, although the general consensus is that they are businesses where families have a controlling interest, which may be quite a modest ownership share in a large publicly quoted business.
Power, Need for
The need for power is one of a trio of needs, along with achievement and affiliation, extensively studied by David McClelland and followers.
Enactment
This concept was first developed by Weick in his influential and innovative monograph, The Social Psychology of Organizing , to connote an organism's adjustment to its environment by directly acting upon the environment to change it.
Authoritarian Personality
This personality syndrome was identified in the 1940s by émigré psychologist refugees from Nazism, in response to a felt need to understand the dynamics of anti‐Semitism.
Hardiness
The concept of hardiness enjoyed some popularity in the 1980s and 1990s after it was introduced by Khoshaba and Maddi to denote individuals who were more constitutionally resilient to Stress and better able to adjust to change.
Literary Theory Survey Classes for Classics Undergraduates
After first arguing that literary theory should play a significant role in an undergraduate classics curriculum, this paper lays out the promises and pitfalls of one particular approach to making literary theory central: a full-unit survey class in literary theory, taught by a member of the classics faculty and responsive to (although not wholly structured by) the particular needs of classics majors. The basic model is evaluated through the explo…
Introduction: Literary Theory and Graduate and Undergraduate Classics Curricula
This introduction reviews the goals of this collection of essays, before briefly addressing some major points of difference in approach among the various authors
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
This book examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives…
Pindar’s Olympian 4: Psaumis and Camarina after the Deinomenids
Family wars: Stories and insights from famous family business feuds
Chapter - 01: Family wars Chapter - 02: The ideas: The roots offamily warfare Chapter - 03: Brothers at arms Chapter - 04: Fighting for the crown Chapter - 05: The house that hubris built Chapter - 06: Heads in the sand - the insularity trap Chapter - 07: Schism - the house divided Chapter - 08: Un-civil war Chapter - 09: The lessons - the price of war and the prize of peace
The design of work—an evolutionary perspective
Personality and domain‐specific risk taking
The concept of risk propensity has been the subject of both theoretical and empirical investigation, but with little consensus about its definition and measurement. To address this need, a new scale assessing overall risk propensity in terms of reported frequency of risk behaviours in six domains was developed and applied: recreation, health, career, finance, safety and social. The paper describes the properties of the scale and its correlates: d…
Social Darwinism in European and American Thought 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as Threat
Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a New View of Human Nature and Organizational Society
The paper argues that evolutionary psychology offers a radical and challenging new perspective on human nature and organizational society. Its roots in a convergence of insights and scientific discoveries from diverse natural and human sciences are described, and how it seeks to avoid common fallacies of earlier biological reasoning about human society. Recurrent themes in human nature and their manifestations are summarized, including sex and pe…
The Predictability of Absence and Propensity to Leave from Employees' Job Satisfaction and Attitudes Toward Influence in Decision-Making
Absenteeism and labor turnover rates have not proved to be consistently predictable on the basis of individual attitudes towards work. It is argued that this inconsistency might in part be attributed to three factors: (a) the lack of studies using the individual worker as a unit of analysis; (b) the use of inappropriate measures of labor turnover; and (c) insufficiently broad coverage of worker attitudes in the measures used. In the present study…
Knowing the Risks: Theory and Practice in Financial Market Trading
Theories about trading in financial markets are well developed and practically influential. However, traders’ behaviour within these markets appears to deviate substantially from that predicted by theory. Using data from a study of traders within financial markets in London, this article seeks to document this apparent paradox and assess its implications. General theories about how the financial world works are distinct from, but compatible with,…
Thinking, feeling and deciding: The influence of emotions on the decision making and performance of traders
We report on a qualitative investigation of the influence of emotions on the decision making of traders in four City of London investment banks, a setting where work has been predominantly theorized as dominated by rational analysis. We conclude that emotions and their regulation play a central role in traders' decision making. We find differences between high and low performing traders in how they engage with their intuitions, and that different…
Playing to win: Biological imperatives, self‐regulation, and trade‐offs in the game of career success
The article applies evolutionary theory to the concept of career success, to argue the primacy of ‘objective’ outcomes, utilities such as status and wealth, and to analyze why the relationship with subjective career success is not stronger. Although there are grounds for expecting subjective evaluations to be sympathetic secondary accompaniments of objective success and failure, there are substantial numbers of paradoxically ‘happy losers’ and ‘u…
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
This book examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives…
Darwinism—a new paradigm for organizational behavior
The Special Issue reflects a growing interest in Darwinian ideas and their increasing application to work and organizational issues, analyzes factors that have impeded its adoption as a paradigm and considers the prospects for future growth. After a brief introduction to key concepts in the new Darwinism, some histories, and controversies are traced. Causes for the particularly slow uptake of the paradigm in Organizational Behavior (OB) are discu…
Management Sanctions and Absence Control
The effect of deterrent measures on employee absence is a neglected topic and what little research there has been has not produced consistent findings. The present paper reports the effects of a sudden clamp-down of management sanctions on the absence behavior of a female workforce. The prediction that this action would not significantly alter the level of absence, but would affect the form absences took, was confirmed by the results, which showe…
Objections to evolutionary psychology: Reflections, implications and the leadership exemplar
A recent exchange of articles in Human Relations debated the validity, philosophical coherence and applicability of the ideas of evolutionary psychology (EP), with specific reference, inter alia, to previous writings where the author has sought to apply EP to the field of organizational behaviour. This article aims to analyse key areas of controversy about the logic and assumptions on both sides of the debate and to explore the possibilities for …
Purgatory or Place of Safety? The Managerial Plateau and Organizational Agegrading
The managerial plateau is generally assumed to be problematic for organizations, generated by motives for advancement outstripping opportunities for upward mobility. However, previous research has used unitary criteria for plateauing of untested validity, and failed to examine the phenomenon contextually by taking account of internal labor market characteristics. Measurement of agegrading was used to address these problems. Drawing upon a sample …
The design of work—an evolutionary perspective
The Ethical Issue Emphasis of Companies: Content, Patterning, and Influences
The study investigates the content and form of attention paid to ethics issues by U.K. firms. It considers the extent to which ethical attention can be characterized in terms of broad domain groupings, corresponding to company concerns with stakeholder groups, stewardship responsibilities, intrinsic values, and the social order of the firm. Survey results from an industry-stratified sample of 299 U.K. firms indicate that attention to ethical issu…
Absence — There and back again
Construing of self and others at work in the early years of corporate careers
Research has examined personal change and stability in early adulthood but generally with standardized scales and without inviting explicit comparison of self with other people. The present work uses the repertory grid method to examine how graduates construe themselves and others during early career. Ninety‐four graduate entrants to a multinational corporation with zero to four years' tenure completed repertory grids on two occasions one year ap…
Pindar’s Olympian 4: Psaumis and Camarina after the Deinomenids
Pederastic Poets and Adult Patrons in Late Archaic Lyric
India's Modernizing Faction and the Mobilization of Power
India's Modernizing Faction and the Mobilization of Power
Management Sanctions and Absence Control
The effect of deterrent measures on employee absence is a neglected topic and what little research there has been has not produced consistent findings. The present paper reports the effects of a sudden clamp-down of management sanctions on the absence behavior of a female workforce. The prediction that this action would not significantly alter the level of absence, but would affect the form absences took, was confirmed by the results, which showe…
The Predictability of Absence and Propensity to Leave from Employees' Job Satisfaction and Attitudes Toward Influence in Decision-Making
Absenteeism and labor turnover rates have not proved to be consistently predictable on the basis of individual attitudes towards work. It is argued that this inconsistency might in part be attributed to three factors: (a) the lack of studies using the individual worker as a unit of analysis; (b) the use of inappropriate measures of labor turnover; and (c) insufficiently broad coverage of worker attitudes in the measures used. In the present study…
Shiftwork and absence: An analysis of temporal trends
In the literature on shiftwork there are many studies describing interesting and complex temporal variations in employee absence behaviour, though none have had the opportunity to unravel the independent effects of shift‐turn (mornings, afternoons and nights), days of the week (Sunday to Saturday), and position in the shift cycle (start, middle and end cycle). The independent effects of these variables and their interactions were the focus of a s…
The Causation of Strikes: A Review of Theoretical Approaches and the Potential Contribution of Social Psychology
This paper reviews four approaches to the study of strikes, centered on organizational environments, industrial relations institutions, collective interests and consciousness, and approaches from within psychology which have looked at employee needs, or attitudes, in relation to job dissatisfaction, and hence industrial conflict. Despite their identification of salient features of strike causation, none of these approaches has drawn on insights f…
Job status and white‐collar members' union activity
The study looks at membership activity and intra‐union relations in one branch of NALGO, the local government union, organizing across all job levels of the white‐collar hierarchy, including managerial grades. From the findings of research on small‐group behaviour and studies of blue‐collar unions, it was hypothesized that members' job status in the managerial system would be positively related to their union activity, and that status would also …
Social Psychology of Absenteeism
Future uncertain: Expected vs. attained job mobility among managers
How good are managers at predicting their own job mobility? A one‐year follow up ( n = 1082) to a large scale survey of British managers allowed respondents' original predictions of their own likely job changes over the coming year to be tested. Results showed expectations were predictive of actual attainments well above chance level, more so for employer changes than for promotions and other job changes, but the level of prediction in general wa…
Coalition Formation in Parliamentary Situations as a Function of Simulated Ideology, Resources, and Electoral Systems
Des groupes de cinq etudiants jouent le role de leaders de parti dans un jeu de formation de coalitions simulant un parlement divise en cinq factions ideologiquement distinctes. Les ressemblances ideologiques sont predictrices de comportement de coalition. La representation proportionnelle fait les parlements centralistes
Transitions into newly created jobs
The paper reports on a study of adjustment to change, a topic of fundamental importance in the development of individuals and organizations. The study, involving 2304 male and female British managers (extended longitudinally with 1100 of the original sample) reveals that between 34 and 50 per cent of job moves are into jobs for which there was no previous role incumbent. The character and outcomes of these job moves are related to Nicholson's (19…
Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition
Work role transitions are among the most significant yet least understood forms of social change, and how they affect individuals' careers, self-concepts and organizational adjustment is of great practical and theoretical importance. This book provides the first comprehensive, large-scale study of the causes, form and outcomes of job change. Focussing on one of the most influential segments of society - middle to senior managers - the book offers…
The outcomes of downward managerial mobility
Research examining the effects of unemployment among white collar workers has produced patterns of findings different to those for lower socio‐economic groups. The present longitudinal questionnaire study examines the psychological impact of managerial job moves which are downward in status, and considers the effects of periods of unemployment between job changes. The results indicate that among managers the negative impact of downward status mov…
Construing of self and others at work in the early years of corporate careers
Research has examined personal change and stability in early adulthood but generally with standardized scales and without inviting explicit comparison of self with other people. The present work uses the repertory grid method to examine how graduates construe themselves and others during early career. Ninety‐four graduate entrants to a multinational corporation with zero to four years' tenure completed repertory grids on two occasions one year ap…
Absence — There and back again
Purgatory or Place of Safety? The Managerial Plateau and Organizational Agegrading
The managerial plateau is generally assumed to be problematic for organizations, generated by motives for advancement outstripping opportunities for upward mobility. However, previous research has used unitary criteria for plateauing of untested validity, and failed to examine the phenomenon contextually by taking account of internal labor market characteristics. Measurement of agegrading was used to address these problems. Drawing upon a sample …
Organization: Directions for Theory and Research
The Ethical Issue Emphasis of Companies: Content, Patterning, and Influences
The study investigates the content and form of attention paid to ethics issues by U.K. firms. It considers the extent to which ethical attention can be characterized in terms of broad domain groupings, corresponding to company concerns with stakeholder groups, stewardship responsibilities, intrinsic values, and the social order of the firm. Survey results from an industry-stratified sample of 299 U.K. firms indicate that attention to ethical issu…
Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a New View of Human Nature and Organizational Society
The paper argues that evolutionary psychology offers a radical and challenging new perspective on human nature and organizational society. Its roots in a convergence of insights and scientific discoveries from diverse natural and human sciences are described, and how it seeks to avoid common fallacies of earlier biological reasoning about human society. Recurrent themes in human nature and their manifestations are summarized, including sex and pe…
Social Darwinism in European and American Thought 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as Threat
Minor illness as a legitimate reason for absence
This study proposes that the perceived legitimacy of minor illness as a reason for absence varies according to the nature of the illness, sex, job grade/socio-economic status and age. A measure of perceived legitimacy was constructed which incorporated illnesses commonly given as reasons for short-term absence. Thirteen hundred civil servants provided data on an employee survey. Absence frequency data were collected for 115 of these respondents o…
Pederastic Poets and Adult Patrons in Late Archaic Lyric
Pindar Nemean 4.57-58 and the Arts of Poets, Trainers, and Wrestlers
Pindar Nemean 4.57-58 and the Arts of Poets, Trainers, and Wrestlers Nigel Nicholson Pindar Nemean 4.54-581 By the foot of Pelion, turning against Iolcus with hostile hand, Peleus gave it over to the Haemonians to be their servant, using the crafty arts of Hippolyta, wife of Acastus. For most of the modern history of the text of Pindar's odes, Nemean 4.57-58 have been seen as a problem. The lines seem to suggest a Peleus who is not suited to be a…
Knowing the Risks: Theory and Practice in Financial Market Trading
Theories about trading in financial markets are well developed and practically influential. However, traders’ behaviour within these markets appears to deviate substantially from that predicted by theory. Using data from a study of traders within financial markets in London, this article seeks to document this apparent paradox and assess its implications. General theories about how the financial world works are distinct from, but compatible with,…
Who shall We Send: Cultural and Other Influences on the Rating of Selection Criteria for Expatriate Assignments
The literature contains much discussion about which criteria should be applied to the selection of candidates for expatriate assignments. We designed an executive teaching exercise around this problem and obtained rankings of criteria from 12 of the leading international scholars in intercultural management, comparing these with data gathered from almost 700 business participants. Results indicate that their ratings converge with the expert ranki…
The Twenty Statements Test
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