Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Leaders need to recognize workplace hierarchies to create an effective learning environment for employees.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.

Companies must retrain their employees to fill the roles most closely aligned with their revised strategic directions.

To meaningfully support Pride, companies need to focus on employees, customers, and the community.

Research points to ways companies can help employees of all ages thrive in today’s multigenerational workplace.

Reimagined workspaces can enable interactions that foster more meaningful human connections in our work lives.

A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.

The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.

The Special Report in MIT SMR‘s Summer 2021 issue looks at how businesses can support a more inclusive workplace culture. Also in this issue: ways to communicate — and disagree — using candor and logic, business’s role in national emergencies, how volunteering helps workers’ skills, and changing the rules to suit turbulent times.

Evaluators can be nudged to make less biased decisions in hiring and other contexts.