Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Returning “boomerang” CEOs, job crafting, and working with robots.
Today’s teams face challenges with employee engagement, overwork, stress management, and ineffective meetings. At the same time, many are also trying to scale AI tools usage but finding culture change a primary obstacle. Get advice from MIT SMR experts on how to build stronger teams and work cultures that lead to organizational success.
Returning “boomerang” CEOs, job crafting, and working with robots.
A comparative investigation of boomerang and non-boomerang CEOs reveals some nonobvious insights and critical implications for leaders.
Job crafting, a proactive take on job redesign, can help improve employee engagement and satisfaction.
Companies can better support individual and community well-being through a people-centered approach to profitability.
The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.
Winning back the gig economy, competing with revenue models, and managing teams in uncertain times.
The “sharing economy” has fallen short of its promise to workers. A new book proposes a better way.
Four team management practices have been key to navigating the initial pivot to virtual workplaces.
By better integrating human and device intelligence, we can foster collective intelligence.
It’s time to rethink how work gets done in your company by reconsidering its enterprise architecture.
Nancy Duarte describes the power of story to engage and unite teams.
Strategically guarding against panic, passivity, and impulsivity can help companies cope with uncertainty.
Leaders must focus on managing the gaps in AI skills and processes within the organization.
The pandemic challenges managers to find a more productive way to meet with employees.
Universities worldwide scramble to create new learning environments in response to COVID-19.
Strategizing for change, leading with agility, and developing AI strategy.
Leading through difficult times requires agility to leverage the turbulence around you.
Employers could use surveillance tools — with constraints — to keep workers safe and healthy.
With more people working remote, IT leaders face new challenges.
Our systems of belief, technology, and cultural practices have shaped what many of us think of as “the office.”