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- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
to Look Outward The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk What do great leaders do differently? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
expects 80 percent of the company’s employees to work either in-office or in a hybrid model after the pandemic—and he cited the reduced quality of informal interactions in the workplace as being the reason he’s resistant to allowing... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
2013 joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of management science and engineering. Valentine says one caveat of the quantitative improvement is that the hospital was not performing as well as its peers before the redesign. Although not every View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
to companies. IDEO, for example, has asked employees to step away from their work to meet up for a weekly tea time ritual as a way to encourage workers to collaborate, connect, build trust, and deepen workplace relationships. Walmart... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
product, sub-assembly, or service. It characterizes what James O'Toole and Edward E. Lawler III in their new book, The New American Workplace, would regard as a "high involvement" workplace in which employees are treated as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
the table. “The superstar worker, without an equivalent or comparison group, is not going to have their bargaining position reduced,” she says. But, what about the original intent of pay transparency, making workplaces fairer and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
leaders grappling with improving racial equity in the workplace, important changes need to go beyond actively recruiting, hiring, and promoting more minority employees—and toward implementing workplace policies that challenge the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that govern View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
marginalized racial and ethnic groups were 54 percent less likely to be promoted than whites, and women were 36 percent less likely to be promoted than men, despite diversity efforts by advocates and government regulators. Bias-driven View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
innovation. Organizations consistently applied new metrics to measure performance but used activity and time logged into systems to proxy for the actual value. Forging a new, better workplace Businesses are only as good as their people,... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
predators and no there is no place for them in positions of power, ever, anywhere.” Janie added, “There is compelling evidence suggesting that many CEOs have strong narcissistic qualities, border on sociopathic tendencies, and often turn View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
employees in 840 companies about workplace morale. High-morale companies (those at which more than 75 percent of the workforce reported "overall satisfaction with their company") had significantly stronger year-over-year stock... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
leaders make will be the right one. In fact, leaders will undoubtedly make some bad calls that lose trust, or a workplace policy may unintentionally cause harm. However, companies can work to rectify lost trust and correct mistakes. After... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
month's question elicited responses across the spectrum of recommended ways of managing them. At one extreme was Sherpa, who said, "Any sort of 'brilliant jerk" is simply another form of psychopath. Psychopaths have no place in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
their families, neighborhoods, or social clubs. “The same trend showing up in the workplace is worrisome because it means we have even fewer opportunities to interact across partisan lines,” she says. “It could accelerate the growing... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
New-Employee Orientation Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’ What do companies not understand about onboarding? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
their value. At the same time, our go-go workplaces are emphasizing and rewarding 24x7 productivity. To study this idea, the researchers set up six experiments to gauge our attitudes about luxury and busyness. As a preliminary test, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
embracing—this shift. Many are using systematic approaches to gather employee insights and turn them into tailored workplace cultures and policies. These efforts usually culminate in a strong talent management strategy, with a deliberate... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
prevalent workplace emotions such as envy and admiration, as well as additional techniques for coping with anxiety, such as applying the elaborate rituals athletes employ before competing to a business context. "My coauthors and I... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
activity of the day. Many workers endure much lengthier commutes than the 76-minute roundtrip average; in fact, commutes are getting longer in general. One study found that the distance between employees’ homes and workplaces in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman