Employee Promotions - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2023
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11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year

through flexible work arrangements. Whether that means allowing for non-traditional work hours or options to work from home at least some of the time, building trust among employees promotes engagement and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

July 2023
Article

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; Interpersonal Communication; Familiarity; Equality and Inequality; Gender

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28 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

strategy to improve performance and drive bottom-line results. You Might Also Like: Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

04 Jan 2016
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5 Ways to Motivate Employees After the Holiday Season

Wednesdays: Health and wellness eases stress and promotes increased productivity. Every Wednesday, go for a walk as a team, take an exercise class, or ask employees to bring in a healthy lunch option and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Dec 2022
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5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

of.” The index ranks the 50 best companies along several dimensions, including promoting from within, career stability, and providing early experiences that allow employees to get better jobs with future... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

2021
Case

Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city $275 per employee per year. The tax money would then be used to combat homelessness in Seattle. In response,... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; City; Welfare; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle

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May–June 2013
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Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? Response: Promoting Political Mobilization

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel

Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these codes of conduct also create possibilities for political mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. View Details

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17 Jan 2019
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Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

Companies with care cultures: Understand their employees’ evolving caregiving needs. They routinely survey their employees and evaluate the company’s demographics, so they can offer meaningful benefits and policies. They View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

Workspace Create a remote work environment for yourself that is comfortable, productive, and professional. Consider: Attire – While there is a certain appeal to wearing pajamas to work, we recommend that employees continue dressing for... View Details

03 May 2022
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Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Sep 2021
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Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to career consequences, such as not being hired or promoted and being discriminated against.” Workers are wary of friending bosses Across four... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

July 2022
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The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others

By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz

Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology

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11 Jan 2022
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Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

verbally recognizing how employees feel, particularly when they are sad, upset, or angry, helps coworkers form a much deeper connection. The team’s paper, Emotional Acknowledgement: How Verbalizing Others’ Emotions Fosters Interpersonal... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Promoting Career-Enhancing Relationships in Organization: The Role of the Human Resource Professional

By: D. A. Thomas and Kathy E. Kram

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Employee Relationship Management

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02 Apr 2010
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Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

effects on productivity, (5) Job design that allows employees to have control over their work is conducive to lower stress levels and better health outcomes (for example, the higher one rises in an organization, the lower the risk of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

October 2017 (Revised October 2020)
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Coaching Makena Lane

By: Ethan Bernstein and Om Lala

Makena Lane has a gift for producing results, even in the challenging retail context of the 2010s, but she also has a knack for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in... View Details

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25 Jan 2022
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Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

verbally recognizing how employees feel, particularly when they are sad, upset, or angry, helps coworkers form a much deeper connection. The team’s paper, Emotional Acknowledgement: How Verbalizing Others’ Emotions Fosters Interpersonal... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Sep 2024
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Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

million emails and 80 million meeting invitations. Shortly after a new CEO takes over, uncertainty among employees dampens communication within a company. However, after about five months, internal chatter sharply intensifies as managers... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

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To Leverage Employee Passion, Save It for When It Counts | Working Knowledge

passion is effortless,” Jachimowicz explains. “But sometimes people have to psych themselves up.” 2. Between men and women, passion doesn’t always play fair Managers evaluating employees for promotions... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani

We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer sabotage... View Details