Performance Management

Agentic AI adopters must proactively address decision rights allocations, power dynamics, and decision-making practices.

Work will be messy and volatile in 2025: Focus on developing these leadership skills.

Learn why moving sideways might be the best thing you can do for your career in this short video with Brian Elliott.

These strategies from MIT SMR columnists can help leaders with challenges like disruption, burnout, and managing teams.

Hybrid work expert Brian Elliott says leaders can expect debate — and reap advantages — by understanding key trends.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on improving work design, implementing AI, increasing employee engagement, and more.

Recent research offers strategies to help boards negotiate executive contracts that align compensation with results.

From hyping up teams to finding the right data, ever more challenging tasks demand new approaches. Here are four tips.

Executives should be focusing on employee outcomes and accountability rather than performative in-office appearances.

An employee’s entrepreneurial pursuits can create challenges for managers, but it’s possible to turn them into a win-win.

Organizations should help employees build the expertise that they’re hungry for — and that they need to be successful.

Research shows that better decision-making can be achieved through the strategic use of artificial intelligence systems.

Considering character as well as competence in hiring can help leaders build healthier organizational cultures.

Moving laterally or even down a rung on your career path can pay off in the long term if you have a growth perspective.

OSHA’s longest-serving administrator discusses effective safety approaches and their impact on operational excellence.

Hybrid work presents trade-offs for organizations, and measuring its impact on productivity remains complex.

Companies find greater success with hybrid work schedules when they make in-person time count.

Overemphasizing output at the expense of employees’ skill development and long-term growth is short-sighted.

Gen Z — already adept at online communication — can model ways for hybrid teams to develop stronger digital connections.

Job crafting empowers workers to proactively transform jobs they have into jobs they want.