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Organizational Behavior
How Managers Can Support Employees With Long COVID
Employers can better retain workers experiencing long COVID and other chronic illnesses by creating supportive policies.
Executing Strategy
AI Can Change How You Measure — and How You Manage
Data-driven leaders are using machine learning to surface new KPIs and better align behaviors with strategic objectives.
Talent Management
The Benefits and Risks of Rehiring a Boomerang Employee
Rehiring a former employee can benefit an employer if the right expectations are put in place.
Organizational Behavior
A Little Rudeness Goes a Long Way
Incivility isn’t just about the office jerk. It’s also about dysfunctional employee relationships.
Collaboration
The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days
No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.
Culture
Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation
Data analysis reveals the top reasons behind the Great Resignation and actions managers can take to reduce attrition.
Work-Life Balance
How Hyperflexibility Can Benefit — or Burn Out — Your Team
Policies for unlimited or mandatory time off that aim to combat burnout and boost employee retention can backfire.
Diversity & Inclusion
Assignments Are Critical Tools to Achieve Workplace Gender Equity
Work assignments can be powerful tools to propel employees’ growth when assessed and used deliberately.
Leading Change
Six Ways Leaders Can Adapt to the Workplace of 2022
MIT SMR’s expert contributors weigh in on the skills and strategies managers should embrace in the year ahead.
Leadership Skills
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2021
The year’s top articles offer insights on driving cultural change, combating burnout and fatigue, and managing teams.
Talent Management
Why It’s So Hard to Keep and Recruit Employees Right Now
Forces that have been in play since before the pandemic began can help explain today’s turbulence in the workforce.
Talent Management
Why Gig Work Needs to Demonstrate Loyalty, and How to Do It
Several principles can be applied to create reciprocal loyalty and benefits between organizations and gig workers.
New Product Development
Design for Cybersecurity From the Start
Leaders can take steps to shift their product development teams toward a mindset of designing for cybersecurity.
Remote Work
What Space Missions Can Teach Us About Remote Work
The practices of astronauts offer a model for successfully adapting to remote and hybrid work.
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Reimagining dense office spaces, evolving brand relationships, and accelerating ideation with prototyping tools.
Organizational Behavior
Reimagining Office Density Can Ease Return-to-Work Resistance
Many businesses are unaware that they’ve been creating an exodus from the office by limiting individual workspaces.
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Jobs in the post-pandemic era, the effects of relaxed hybrid rules, and the real causes of the supply chain crisis.
Organizational Behavior
Rethinking Assumptions About How Employees Work
The post-pandemic era requires a leadership mindset change about jobs and managerial expectations.
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Fostering tech-mediated collaboration, dignity in employee data use, and in-house social intrapreneurship.