Performance Management

Managerial authority and hierarchy should be redesigned for business today, but they won’t disappear.

Managers can help employees turn fears into fleeting thoughts as opposed to permanent restraints.

Giving employees flexibility is becoming crucial to reducing stress and building their confidence in the organization.

Before they can address workplace deviance, leaders need to recognize the role they may be playing.

Companies and employees can benefit when open jobs are filled by internal lateral hires rather than external candidates.

We need to move on to a new way of measuring — and accelerating — employee performance.

MIT SMR’s summer 2022 issue addresses the challenges of C-suite turnover, end users’ AI anxiety, and employee motivation.

Research shows that companies can improve employees’ workplace experiences through the optimal use of sound.

Watch this webinar to learn about using data insights to empower employees and enhance productivity.

Increasing productivity today requires creating cultures based on empowerment, wellness, and trust.

Learn to achieve healthy productivity while boosting employee engagement, empowerment, and wellness.

New research examines the challenges of leading and coordinating workforces that increasingly rely on external contributors.

An experiment shows that target-independent pay can improve sales force performance, retention, and engagement.

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.

Employee well-being and happiness are surprisingly powerful predictors of performance.

Businesses can boost retention when they help employees align their work to their sense of purpose.

No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.

Many businesses are unaware that they’ve been creating an exodus from the office by limiting individual workspaces.

Learn how workplace analytics can be leveraged to build trust and increase employee empowerment.