Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
This week’s must-reads for managers: harnessing disruption for a better future, developing innovation capital, and aligning company culture with corporate values.
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.
This week’s must-reads for managers: harnessing disruption for a better future, developing innovation capital, and aligning company culture with corporate values.
In a virtual work environment, organizations must reassess their cybersecurity risk profile and IT strategy.
The disruption triggered by the pandemic is rich with opportunities to fundamentally improve how we live.
Company practices often conflict with corporate values. Closing the gap starts with communication.
Shareholders and stakeholders, data science’s pandemic shift, and combating workplace discrimination.
Managers face a choice: use technology to recreate employees’ former office work lives, or craft a new strategy.
Organizational leaders can begin to address racial discrimination in the workplace by taking strategic actions.
Focusing on better conversations can improve collaboration and unlock creative solutions to business problems.
MIT Sloan’s Ben Shields says business can compete better using pro sports’ approach to data analytics.
Pivoting in the pandemic, assessing supplier diversity initiatives, and creating a framework for discussing race.
Often dismissed as a “feel good” option, B2B supplier diversity initiatives can reap financial rewards.
Leaders who take care of themselves will also take care of their teams.
Sustaining organizational culture beyond the office, creating value with opportunity marketplaces, and avoiding strategy hijacks.
Leaders can take specific actions to sustain corporate culture despite a shift to remote working.
Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien contend that smart leaders acknowledge and embrace emotions in the workplace.
How U.S. companies are commemorating Juneteenth; what a 2020 recession may mean for data analytics.
A country’s mix of occupations, technology backbone, and demographics impacts its conditions for remote work.
An intentional approach to sharing positive news can help boost employee morale.
Leaders should focus on starting conversations, emphasizing individuality, and measuring feedback.
Introducing our summer issue, and collaborating productively on remote teams.