Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Recent research suggests companies should consider offering a four-day workweek to help attract and retain employees.

Boundaries and accountability can help prevent employees’ “authenticity” from morphing into workplace incivility.

Research finds that having supportive colleagues in the workplace is key to feeling less isolated when working from home.

To gain agility, leaders must deconstruct jobs into tasks and deploy workers based on their skills.

Categorizing decisions by riskiness and urgency helps clarify when to involve higher-ups.

The authors suggest five actions leaders can take to create a workplace that supports employees and fosters resilience.

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

Warner Music Group’s Kobi Abayomi shares how AI helps customers discover new music, and his approach to hiring data scientists.

Leaders can improve remote employees’ well-being and productivity by helping them structure their workdays better.

New research identifies three focus areas for leaders who want to bring more justice and joy to their organizations.

Leaders can successfully execute a digital transformation by achieving cultural balance between continuity and change.

Katia Walsh discusses how Levi Strauss is upskilling and motivating employees to help drive its digital transformation.

This report, based on a global survey, explores rapidly changing trends in hybrid and remote work.

Experimental corporate initiatives and individuals’ new ways of working are shaping what’s possible.

New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.

When political strife threatens workplace relationships, managers can take specific actions to help maintain civility.

Leaders and their employees must partner to achieve equity and access for both in-person and remote employees.

When leaders recognize the perspectives of overlooked populations, it opens up opportunities for innovation and change.

Awareness of the most common elements of toxic workplace cultures can help employers prevent and address them.

March 15-17, the MIT SMR site is free and open to all.