Employee Motivation

In times of high stress and crisis, interdepartmental strife can wreak havoc. Here’s how to stop it.

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MIT SMR Winter 2020 examines workers’ emotions and education, tech dilemmas, and how best to transform.

Redesigning jobs should be seen as a process that enables work to be redefined to create new value.

Facial recognition tech can identify and analyze key emotional states — but must be used with care.

Emotions provide insight into what motivates people and how to improve performance.

Successful companies are passionate about fostering a community of leaders with new mindsets.

By adding new incentives to long-term contracts, teams may be able to offset the likelihood of poor effort.

Confirming what people already believe can sometimes help organizations overcome barriers to change.

Organizations can innovate to address environmental and social problems — but they need to build the right culture.

While failing to achieve one’s goals saps confidence, giving advice may restore it.

Leaders should realize that companies are fundamentally linguistic entities.

Today’s best leaders embrace technology as a management tool but retain a human touch, too.

People who are satisfied with the current way of doing business are not likely to transform it.

Branding, a process used by marketers, can also be used internally to build excitement for projects.

In a thought-powered world, leaders must look beyond planning and execution and inspire ingenuity.

Today’s young managers may be thinking, “Show me the money!” But there are other ways to keep them engaged.

Talented young professionals exhibit a new approach to both their careers and organizational loyalty.

This year’s winning article is “Combining Purpose With Profits,” by Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss, and Siegwart Lindenberg.

Research suggests that high levels of employee engagement are associated with higher rates of profitability growth.