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Harnessing Employee Talent: The Diversity Advantage

This course offers a comprehensive examination of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) within organizational contexts, focusing on practical strategies for fostering inclusive environments and driving positive change. Furthermore, this course... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • News

The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

  • 08 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Sreedhari D. Desai
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

Keywords: by Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health
  • 2011
  • Book

The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World

By: Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey
Defines the fundamental concept of Net Promoter, explaining its connection to your company’s growth and sustained success.
*Presents the closed-loop feedback process and demonstrates its power to energize employees and delight customers.
*Shares new and... View Details
Keywords: Customer Centric Initiative; Customer Defection; Customer Engagement; Customer Experience; Customer Focused Organization; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Network Effects
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Reichheld, Fred, and Rob Markey. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

identification and the pronouns they use. “That question says from the beginning that we choose to value our employees as individuals.” In daily meetings and communications, leaders and coworkers promote the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

affects motivation. Are you taking away the part of the job that people really enjoy?” You Might Also Like: Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More A Penny for Your... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

By: Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
Process-improvement ideas often come from frontline workers who speak up by voicing concerns about problems and by taking charge to resolve them. We hypothesize that organization-wide process-improvement campaigns encourage both forms of speaking up, especially voicing... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Business Processes; Performance Improvement
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Adler-Milstein, Julia, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel. "Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-005, July 2010. (Revised Sept. 2011. Best Theory-to-Practice Paper Award by Academy of Management's Health Care Management Division. Selected for Best Paper Proceedings of the 2011 Academy of Management Meeting.)
  • 2021
  • Article

Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation

By: Ashley Whillans, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra and Michael Daly
Dramatic reductions in carbon emissions must take place immediately. A human-centric method of reducing environmental impacts is to “nudge” employees away from single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) toward more sustainable commuting options. While an abundance of research... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Science; Transportation Demand Management; Commuting; Single-occupancy Vehicle Commutes; Transportation; Behavior; Change; Environmental Sustainability
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Whillans, Ashley, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra, and Michael Daly. "Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation." Behavioral Science & Policy 7, no. 2 (2021): 27–49.
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon contributes to the... View Details
Keywords: Career; Promotions; Social Interactions; Networking; Gender; Personal Development and Career; Wages; Social and Collaborative Networks
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Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap." Working Paper, June 2021. (American Economic Review 2023, 113(7): 1703–1740. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20210863.)
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Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust

By: Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
One of the toughest challenges leaders face is managing diverse perspectives—and given heightened tensions over politics and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that’s more difficult today than ever before. At the same time, productive disagreement and... View Details
Keywords: Polarization; Employees; Perspective; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust
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Minson, Julia A., and Francesca Gino. "Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 63–71.
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • News

Can Online Tools Help Employees Build Resilience?

  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

Can there be corporate democracy if employees can’t vote on the actions its companies take? Yes, and it’s needed now more than ever. The pandemic has brought much employee discontent and activism. Last... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
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Can Wages Buy Honesty?: The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft

By: C. X. Chen and Tatiana Sandino
In this study we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Behavior; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols
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Chen, C. X., and Tatiana Sandino. "Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft." Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (September 2012): 967–1000.

    Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft

    In this study we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages... View Details
    • 22 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

    Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that most ignited View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 29 Sep 2020
    • News

    Employee Performance vs. Company Values: A Manager’s Dilemma

    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

    workers are mainly middle-aged, sandwich-generation women: 72 percent of part-timers were female, and 65 percent were 35 and older. “The single-biggest driver of that is caregiving obligations,” Fuller says. Nearly all, or 91 percent, of part-time View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 06 Apr 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

    stress. (The company's approaches to wellness are described in Johnson & Johnson: The Promotion of Wellness.) General Mills offers mindfulness training with on-site meditation to help employees focus as... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation
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