Skills & Learning
Building the Cognitive Budget for Your Most Effective Mind
Cognitive budgeting can help employees at all levels be more intentional about where they direct their mental energy.
Workplace, Teams, & Culture
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Diversity & Inclusion
Providing Performance Feedback to Support Neurodiverse Employees
Well-formulated performance feedback can dramatically improve relationships, job commitment, and employee engagement.
Organizational Behavior
A Little Rudeness Goes a Long Way
Incivility isn’t just about the office jerk. It’s also about dysfunctional employee relationships.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Leading in an Age of Employee Activism
Employees are demanding that companies engage in social issues. Leaders need to be ready to respond.
Collaboration
The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days
No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.
Automation
Human Diversity Will Save Your Job From the Robot Takeover
Workers’ creativity will provide job security — even as robots take on parts of their roles.
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.
Leading Change
Recapping Work/22: Day 2
Day Two of MIT SMR’s Work/22 symposium included discussions of workplace culture, good jobs, and employee development.
Leading Change
Recapping Work/22: Day 1
Day One of MIT SMR’s Work/22 symposium included discussions of employee activism, DEI best practices, and collaboration.
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.
Culture
Developing a Culture of AI
David Kiron and François Candelon discuss the latest MIT SMR-BCG AI and business strategy report at Web Summit 2021.
Innovation Strategy
Game Changers
The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.
Collaboration
How Collaboration Needs Change From Mind to Marketplace
Advice to help business leaders create the conditions innovators need to develop breakthrough ideas for the marketplace.
Leading Change
Use Networks to Drive Culture Change
Use network analysis to identify barriers to cultural change and spread new organizational values in targeted ways.
Corporate Social Responsibility
How Corporate Clout Helps Communities Thrive
Business-led coalitions for local prosperity are a growing phenomenon capturing the attention of CEOs.
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.