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Date Time Managing like a Boss James Cook University researchers have quizzed top managers on their leadership styles, providing new insights into how to make workplaces run more effectively. Jane Oorschot, JCU sessional lecturer in human resources and management, said as part of her PhD research she interviewed 23 experienced leaders working in public and private sector organisations and analysed their responses. “We wanted to explore the leader’s relationship with the ‘psychological contract’ – that’s the unwritten set of expectations and promises between the employee and the employer. It includes informal arrangements, mutual beliefs and perceptions, and the common ground they share. It’s not something that had been looked at explicitly before,” said Ms Oorschot. ....