Organizational Behavior

The year’s top articles offer insights on driving cultural change, combating burnout and fatigue, and managing teams.

Forces that have been in play since before the pandemic began can help explain today’s turbulence in the workforce.

Several principles can be applied to create reciprocal loyalty and benefits between organizations and gig workers.

Leaders can take steps to shift their product development teams toward a mindset of designing for cybersecurity.

The practices of astronauts offer a model for successfully adapting to remote and hybrid work.

Reimagining dense office spaces, evolving brand relationships, and accelerating ideation with prototyping tools.

Many businesses are unaware that they’ve been creating an exodus from the office by limiting individual workspaces.

Jobs in the post-pandemic era, the effects of relaxed hybrid rules, and the real causes of the supply chain crisis.

The post-pandemic era requires a leadership mindset change about jobs and managerial expectations.

Fostering tech-mediated collaboration, dignity in employee data use, and in-house social intrapreneurship.

Virtual, tech-mediated collaboration carries risks of isolation, exclusion, surveillance, and self-censorship.

The specific cultural factors that predict whether employees are happy (and will stay) aren’t what you might think.

In his new book, Beyond Collaboration Overload, Rob Cross explains how to avoid excessive collaboration while still reaping its benefits.

The winner of the 2021 Beckhard Prize is “Fixing the Overload Problem at Work,” by Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen.

Businesses that don’t understand the connection between business transformation and culture change risk obsolescence.

Top MIT SMR article topics include work and strategy redesign, and developing leadership skills for the hybrid future.

Culture change starts with new actions, not with business leaders identifying or articulating a desired culture.

Contractors hired to tackle core management tasks often succeed because of their outsider status.

When managing a merger, pay attention to political disparities.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.