employee engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

Increase the diversity of employees in your organization—for example, on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation—and you'll automatically have a better company. Right? That's the prevailing belief anyway.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

northwestern us ClearCare serves the $60-billion private-pay homecare market in the US using a powerful SaaS technology that provides back-office efficiency and front-facing engagement of families and seniors. The sales process is... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

The main focus of ARF to date has been to create a giving process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose -... View Details

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

online than with the community outside their door. Companies often limit their community engagement to contributions to nonprofits or organizing volunteer opportunities. "Traditionally, the way these companies View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

22 Mar 2021
Blog Post

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

possible that I have that sequence wrong? Or that it might be wrong to even think of it as a sequence of priorities? What if initial efforts instead concentrated on inclusion? What if we tried to engage the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

results for those engaged in it. Those organizations thought to be most able to extend their boundaries are those able to work in a "componentized" manner, with "certain pieces of technology or innovation that can be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

actually works. When people engage in nostalgia, they’re accessing personally meaningful autobiographical events typically shared with family, friends, and other close connections. It isn’t just a happy trip down memory lane — in fact,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Apr 2014
News

Providing Advantage and Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youths

makes them stronger and more resilient as an employee then many folks who have never faced any type of adversity in their lives. “So I think what our country needs to do is really embrace the fact that, if we are going to have a globally... View Details

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The big question is, is it really possible to do well on the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

employees are more likely to speak up and offer solutions when organizations launch information campaigns to promote process improvement and when managers engage in process-improvement activities themselves.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Summing Up Is Our Thinking About Work Outmoded? In spite of contrary evidence, there is still a popular belief that working more hours produces more results. People too often assume that being "at work" is equivalent to "work." Americans are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

fees. My heuristic for these types of engagements is to assess whether they are performing a part-time role you’d otherwise fill with a full-time employee (FTE) if you could find them. These View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6792.html Published: October 31, 2011 When evaluating compensation issues, economists often assume that both an employer and an employee make rational, albeit self-interested choices while working toward a goal.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

inflexible or unpredictable work schedules, and employers’ failure to grasp how employees are struggling and to provide them with support, according to a new Harvard Business School report. That disregard harms both workers and companies.... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

knowledge-intensive work relies on integrating the ideas and expertise of multiple people, which requires a willingness to speak candidly. WHAT ARE SOME THINGS LEADERS CAN DO TO CREATE A MORE PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT? Ideally, companies will create an... View Details

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

and goals, allocating the appropriate resources, and monitoring progress in a transparent fashion are vital. Engaging the entire organization, starting with a needs assessment, serves a crucial function in empowering managers and View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

historical events in the 1930s that might affect some states but not others. They considered the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which guaranteed the rights of private-sector employees to unionize and View Details