Performance Management

Considering character as well as competence in hiring can help leaders build healthier organizational cultures.

Moving laterally or even down a rung on your career path can pay off in the long term if you have a growth perspective.

OSHA’s longest-serving administrator discusses effective safety approaches and their impact on operational excellence.

Hybrid work presents trade-offs for organizations, and measuring its impact on productivity remains complex.

Companies find greater success with hybrid work schedules when they make in-person time count.

Overemphasizing output at the expense of employees’ skill development and long-term growth is short-sighted.

Gen Z — already adept at online communication — can model ways for hybrid teams to develop stronger digital connections.

Job crafting empowers workers to proactively transform jobs they have into jobs they want.

Digital nudges can encourage reactive thinking and limit employees’ ethical thinking.

Managers who stymie their high performers’ internal advancement do so at their own expense, research shows.

New research shows that learning about hidden workplace inequities can shift perceptions of fair employment practices.

Executives should be focusing on employee outcomes and accountability rather than performative in-office appearances.

Age-related cognitive changes can hinder workers’ technology use, but these strategies can help managers support them.

Measuring and improving employee performance are different tasks most effectively addressed by two separate processes.

Management experts share advice for leaders on talent and AI challenges in this video.

A presenter at an MIT SMR symposium answers questions about using skills, not degrees, as the benchmark for hiring.

Executing strategy requires understanding your critical roles and putting your best people in them.

A presenter from MIT SMR’s Work/23 symposium answers questions about resilience and self-efficacy.

A presenter at an MIT SMR symposium answers questions on how gender, age, and race can affect career advancement.

Researchers describe how having robots work alongside humans can help companies measure performance more accurately.