All articles published by MIT Sloan Management Review online and in print.
Take a Skills-Based Approach to Culture Change
Organizations can leverage a skills-based approach to culture change to speed the process and address real challenges.
Well-Being Intelligence: A Skill Set for the New World of Work
Improving employees’ mental health and well-being requires managers to first recognize and address their own challenges.
The Consequences of Unacknowledged Grief in the Workplace
A company’s ability and willingness to support employees grieving after a loss can impact its culture and retention.
How to Engage Skeptics in Culture Interventions
The skill of perspective taking can help build teams’ psychological safety for creative, collaborative problem-solving.
Workplace Toxicity Is Not Just a Mental Health Issue
Workplace toxicity leads to a host of negative mental and physical health outcomes, particularly for women of color.
This New Year, Resolve Against Workaholism
Workaholic behavior can damage organizations and teams; managers can take steps to help employees attain better balance.
Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?
New research points to the potential of professional development training for boosting teams’ collaboration skills.
Improve Creative Brainstorming With Constructive Criticism
New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.
Diet, Exercise, and Logging Off? Rethinking Employee Wellness
Companies’ approach to employee health should take into account the effects of social media use on workers’ well-being.
How Hyperflexibility Can Benefit — or Burn Out — Your Team
Policies for unlimited or mandatory time off that aim to combat burnout and boost employee retention can backfire.
The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days
No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.
Reimagining Office Density Can Ease Return-to-Work Resistance
Many businesses are unaware that they’ve been creating an exodus from the office by limiting individual workspaces.
The Collective Intelligence of Remote Teams
Remote work can be as effective as in-person work with the right people and collaborative processes.
How to Prevent the Return to Offices From Being an Emotional Roller Coaster
Leaders can take proactive steps to make workers feel more comfortable about going back to in-person work.
The Top 10 Findings on Resilience and Engagement
A global survey reveals the pandemic’s effect on employee resilience and engagement and points to ways to improve them.
How Organizations Can Promote Employee Wellness, Now and Post-Pandemic
It benefits both workers and companies when leaders proactively support employees’ mental health and wellness.
Overcoming Obstacles to Successful Culture Change
Culture change starts with new actions, not with business leaders identifying or articulating a desired culture.
