Workplace, Teams, & Culture

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

A new article series explores how organizations must manage and monitor technology in new ways to achieve positive ethical outcomes.

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

The financial industry’s use of ownership and board membership statistics to measure diversity is insufficient.

Seven steps to addressing burnout, an intersectional approach to mitigating bias in AI, and running mixed-mode meetings.

Leaders can create a healthier work environment for employees by addressing the root causes of stress.

Five principles can help leaders decide when it’s best to hold meetings with both colocated and virtual participants.

In artificial intelligence, race and gender too often generate a bias double whammy.

Transforming organizational culture, strategizing with soul, and harnessing the potential of digital twins.

Conventional ways of making strategy are inadequate amid uncertainty and complexity. Today, it requires moral purpose.

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

Organizations are trying to bridge their need for connectivity with people’s hunger for flexibility.

New research exposes the conflicts working parents may face when weighing concerns about work and career geography.

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.

The data science management process, job moves for pay equity, and political concerns in M&As.

In this webinar, speakers discuss the benefits and pitfalls of monitoring in-person and remote workers.

When managing a merger, pay attention to political disparities.

Female executives can command bigger pay increases than men by switching jobs.