The spring 2022 issue of MIT SMR focuses on how companies use KPIs to measure performance. Plus: What happy, rude, or activist employees bring to the table; strategic thinking for uncertain times.
Streamlined metrics can get people moving in the same direction and improve business performance.
No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.
The visibility arising from digital employee monitoring requires purpose, policies, and management.
When leaders ask employees to cross ethical lines, they risk reducing workers’ long-term performance.
A global survey reveals the pandemic’s effect on employee resilience and engagement and points to ways to improve them.
Identifying your best interviewers can substantially reduce hiring expenses and increase the quality of hires.
A global study of resilience and engagement explores the tools people use to stay strong in a crisis.
Returning “boomerang” CEOs, job crafting, and working with robots.
Job crafting, a proactive take on job redesign, can help improve employee engagement and satisfaction.
MIT Sloan’s Ben Shields says business can compete better using pro sports’ approach to data analytics.
How businesses can act against racial injustice, and new leadership challenges in a suddenly virtual workplace.
Recalibrating metrics to assess work-from-home performance is essential to ensuring that remote work actually works.
Tucker Marion and Sebastian Fixson outline four essential skills workers need to master to succeed in digital environments.
Jobs and workspaces can be designed to energize people through contact with the natural world.
The most effective human capital investment initiatives have a common core: opportunity.
A webinar looks at the leadership implications of the changing workplace.
Companies looking to become market leaders face two challenges: getting ahead — and staying there.
A webinar summarizing lessons learned in AI implementation from the 2019 Winning With AI Report.
Must-reads for managers: sabotage your company, AI passes eighth grade, and those pesky customers.