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- 16 Oct 2012
- News
Who Controls Workplace Happiness?
- 10 Mar 2020
- News
The Little-Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Sep 2010
- News
Attack of the Woman-Dominated Workplace
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
Toward a Racially Just Workplace
- Article
Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace
By: Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull and William Kerr
Is keeping pace with the future of work incompatible with using purpose to guide the organization? Unilever is stretching its well-known commitment to purpose for a new and daunting challenge—the transformation of its workforce of more than 149,000 employees. Its... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Purpose; Unilever; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Talent and Talent Management; Transition; Decision Making; Transformation
Nair, Leena, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull, and William Kerr. "Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 52–55.
- November 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Background Note
Mental Health and the American Workplace
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Mental illness has been described as an epidemic affecting nearly a quarter of all Americans in their lifetimes, often during their most productive working years. Managers who can design organizations that maximize mental health can minimize these risks and boost... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Productivity; Competitiveness; Stress Management; Depression; Absenteeism; Presenteeism; Work Culture; Business or Company Management; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Organizational Culture; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Mental Health and the American Workplace." Harvard Business School Background Note 515-062, November 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace
Consists of several vignettes and discussion points around issues of conflict in the workplace. Issues presented are differences of race, gender, nationality, culture, religion; access to power, training, advancement; tolerance of style of management, language,... View Details
Gentile, Mary C., and Sarah Gant. "Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 395-090, January 1995. (Revised June 1995.)
- 27 Feb 2012
- News
How Can Workplace Stress Be Reduced?
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
intercultural disharmony, says Chua. "It is inevitable to have conflict when you bring people from different cultural backgrounds together," he says. "It's about how you manage the conflict. A lot of times managers try to put together a multicultural View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- February 2013 (Revised May 2014)
- Technical Note
Women MBAs in the Workplace
By: Boris Groysberg, Kerry Herman and Matthew Preble
Groysberg, Boris, Kerry Herman, and Matthew Preble. "Women MBAs in the Workplace." Harvard Business School Technical Note 413-089, February 2013. (Revised May 2014.)
- August 1994
- Article
Human Relations in the Workplace
By: J. J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Relationships
Rotemberg, J. J. "Human Relations in the Workplace." Journal of Political Economy 102 (August 1994): 684–718.
- 04 May 2017
- News
Building a psychologically safe workplace
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health
- 2017
- Gender Conformity & Nonconformity
Thinking Expansively About Gender Nonconformity and Workplace Anti-Discrimination Strategies
- Forthcoming
- Article
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate After a Workplace Microaggression
By: Summer R. Jackson and Basima A. Tewfik
Although scholars largely assume that workplace microaggressions negatively impact the work relationship between the target and the perpetrator, relational deterioration is not the only observable relational outcome. Indeed, there are instances of relational... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Interpersonal Communication; Motivation and Incentives; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution
Jackson, Summer R., and Basima A. Tewfik. "It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate After a Workplace Microaggression." Academy of Management Review (forthcoming). (Pre-published online March 10, 2025.)
- Research Summary
The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency
Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details