Managing Your Career
When Moving Sideways Makes Sense
Moving laterally or even down a rung on your career path can pay off in the long term if you have a growth perspective.
Performance Management
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Performance Management
How Workplace Safety Improves Performance
OSHA’s longest-serving administrator discusses effective safety approaches and their impact on operational excellence.
Performance Management
Seven Truths About Hybrid Work and Productivity
Hybrid work presents trade-offs for organizations, and measuring its impact on productivity remains complex.
Organizational Behavior
Hybrid Work: How Leaders Build In-Person Moments That Matter
Companies find greater success with hybrid work schedules when they make in-person time count.
Performance Management
Don’t Sacrifice Employee Upskilling for Productivity
Overemphasizing output at the expense of employees’ skill development and long-term growth is short-sighted.
Performance Management
When Hybrid Work Strategy Aggravates 20-Somethings
Gen Z — already adept at online communication — can model ways for hybrid teams to develop stronger digital connections.
Performance Management
How to Improve Employee Engagement With Job Crafting
Job crafting empowers workers to proactively transform jobs they have into jobs they want.
AI & Machine Learning
The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot
Digital nudges can encourage reactive thinking and limit employees’ ethical thinking.
Talent Management
Why You Should Let Your Favorite Employee Move to Another Team
Managers who stymie their high performers’ internal advancement do so at their own expense, research shows.
Performance Management
The Invisible Barriers Holding Top Talent Back
New research shows that learning about hidden workplace inequities can shift perceptions of fair employment practices.
Performance Management
Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
Executives should be focusing on employee outcomes and accountability rather than performative in-office appearances.
Technology Implementation
How Tech Fails Late-Career Workers
Age-related cognitive changes can hinder workers’ technology use, but these strategies can help managers support them.
Performance Management
What We’re Still Getting Wrong About Performance Management
Measuring and improving employee performance are different tasks most effectively addressed by two separate processes.
Talent Management
Thorny Talent and AI Challenges Now: 5 Experts Speak
Management experts share advice for leaders on talent and AI challenges in this video.
Skills & Learning
The Why, What, and How of Skills-Based Talent Practices
A presenter at an MIT SMR symposium answers questions about using skills, not degrees, as the benchmark for hiring.
Talent Management
Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance
Executing strategy requires understanding your critical roles and putting your best people in them.
Culture
Thriving in the New World of Work
A presenter from MIT SMR’s Work/23 symposium answers questions about resilience and self-efficacy.
Talent Management
Dismantle Career Roadblocks for More Equitable Outcomes
A presenter at an MIT SMR symposium answers questions on how gender, age, and race can affect career advancement.
Automation
How Robots Can Enhance Performance Management for Humans
Researchers describe how having robots work alongside humans can help companies measure performance more accurately.
Performance Management
Flexible and Effective: Leadership Strategies for the Hybrid Workplace
Brian Elliott, a presenter at MIT SMR’s Work/23 symposium, answers questions about going hybrid.
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