Human Psychology

MIT SMR’s fall 2024 issue highlights the need for personal and organizational resilience amid global uncertainty.

To get employees with not-invented-here syndrome to open up to new ideas, companies may have to incentivize or push them.

Apply these four lessons to successfully put employees at the heart of strategic planning and benefit from their input.

An employee’s health crisis can deeply impact their colleagues. Managers must be prepared to offer appropriate supports.

Bolstered dignity eases the path to constructive problem-solving and collaboration.

Social, cognitive, emotional, and physical/sensory neuroinclusion are needed for employees to flourish in the workplace.

Proper name pronunciation is a simple, accessible practice that can promote inclusion and belonging in the workplace.

Researchers have identified six best practices to help leaders better regulate their own and their teams’ emotions.

Handwritten notes are a personalized approach to business communication that can help build stronger connections.

Research finds fear of failure could keep an innovator from launching a new creative endeavor after an early success.

A company’s ability and willingness to support employees grieving after a loss can impact its culture and retention.

The skill of perspective taking can help build teams’ psychological safety for creative, collaborative problem-solving.

Managers can learn to recognize specious claims of victimhood by employees called out for engaging in discrimination.

Mentors can help redefine the rhetoric of success that rewards work at the cost of well-being.

New research points to the potential of professional development training for boosting teams’ collaboration skills.

Forming a stronger bond with nature can benefit business leaders, their organizations, and the environment.

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.

Cognitive budgeting can help employees at all levels be more intentional about where they direct their mental energy.

These five articles from the MIT SMR library offer leadership insights to take into the new year.