Workplace Relationships - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

relationships with the right people. This crisis presents an opportunity for the CEO to communicate to all employees, including new hires, that the company cares about them and is prioritizing their health and safety during the pandemic.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

When your boss asks you to meet with clients for last-minute drinks, are you tempted to clear your calendar, even if it means missing your child’s piano recital? If so, you’re among the many professionals who tend to prioritize professional View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

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By: Ashley V. Whillans

Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

“Having once been wary of power is no guarantee that you will be immune to abusing it. [It] is another reminder that we are all susceptible to its intoxicating effects. The challenge is finding a balanced relationship that avoids the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

working paper, “On the Origins of Our Discontent,” as they examine a frustrated workforce and point out that the Great Resignation has become synonymous with workplaces that lack connection. “For decades both liberals and conservatives... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

notice and take action, according to the research, published September in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study could provide an incentive of its own for businesses looking to attract and retain talent amid a brisk labor market and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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

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

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

Harvard Business School professor Lynn S. Paine's new book, Value Shift, argues that companies can't consider themselves amoral or apart from society anymore—that the relationship between companies and society at large necessitates... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

have a big impact on interpersonal relationships in the workplace. “These are people with egos and motives, and your relationship with them is important,” she says. “In View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

offshore platforms as the organizational environment for your research? A: We selected this setting because we knew it to be one where the work is hazardous and the workforce largely male—and, in these respects, similar to the workplaces... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

clock, for example–can signal trust and a desire to develop a lasting connection. “We suggest that deliberating over trivial matters when deciding how much to expend can signal a partner’s intention to give precisely no more and no less than is necessary, making that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

feel hindered by their gender at work tended to have healthier workplace relationships with each other than those who did. Other presenters challenged the common notion that organizations can fuel gender... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

speak out about experiences of bias (Hewlett, Marshall, & Bourgeois, 2017). Silence about race in the workplace compromises relationships (Phillips, Dumas, & Rothbard, 2018) and work engagement... View Details

Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by psychological... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

Repairing the damage With Uber’s daily management now in the hands of 10 executives—and Kalanick remaining on the board of directors—the company faces immediate challenges: It must fill several high-level vacancies, smooth over relations with its 14,000 employees by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

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