716 Articles found for subject: Human Resources

Gender diversity can be a profound business challenge —or a source of competitive advantage. But it’s not women who need to change. It’s the workplace.

Content: Article | Source: “Boston Consulting Group (BCG)” | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Women in Business

Nonpromotable work profoundly affects women’s careers and lives. In her new book, Lise Vesterlund explains why women so often agree to it—and how they can say no.

Content: Article | Authors: Justine Jablonska, Lise Vesterlund | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Women in Business

Too many employers pay too little heed to the needs of the lower earners in their company. Here’s why—and how—they should shift gears.

Content: Article | Authors: Brooke Weddle, Tera Allas | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

What would it take to build the skills your company needs in your current workforce? Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman offer a new playbook for a historic talent crunch with no end in sight.

Content: Article | Authors: Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subject: Human Resources

At early-stage companies, where you’re still wrestling with product/market fit and building up the company foundation, management often falls to the back burner, leaving folks to generally figure it all out for themselves. However, many of the cracks that emerge as startups scale can be traced back to those missing managerial cornerstones.

One root cause? Manager training, which is largely ignored by startups as a BigCo bucket … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Johnathan Nightingale, Melissa Nightingale | Source: “First Round Review” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Management, Training & Development

Many companies have employee wellness programs with the goal of reducing the skyrocketing costs of health care for their workers. But there is little evidence that these programs are effective.

Wharton management professors Iwan Barankay and Peter Cappelli suggest that instead of free gym memberships or yoga classes, companies should try to meet the most vulnerable workers where they are by offering … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Managers must take proactive steps to increase employee engagement, or risk losing their workforce. Engaged employees perform better, experience less burnout, and stay in organizations longer. The authors created this Employee Engagement Checklist: a distilled, research-based resource that practitioners can execute on during this critical period of renewed uncertainty. Use this checklist to boost employee engagement by helping them connect what they do to what … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Ashley Whillans, Daniel Stein, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Nick Hobson | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subjects: Human Resources, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Pay, incentives, and benefits haven’t significantly changed for decades, but people’s preferences have. Employee compensation needs a rethink if companies are to attract and retain talent.

Content: Article | Authors: Alastair Woods, Andrew Curcio | Source: “strategy+business” | Subject: Human Resources

In an unprecedented time for attracting and retaining talent, CEOs and CHROs are getting creative—from three-day workweeks at full-time status to paid mental-health days to raised wages. Here’s what a dozen leaders told us they are doing differently.

Content: Article | Author: Dale Buss | Source: “Chief Executive” | Subjects: Compensation, Human Resources

If you’re a hiring manager, this is the perfect time to check in and rededicate yourself to running an even better process, whether that’s by doubling down on your existing approach or trying out new hiring tactics that break the mold. In particular, there’s an opportunity to reconsider the very qualities you’re hunting for.

Over the years, we’ve interviewed hundreds of startup leaders, collecting their go-to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: “First Round Review” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Human Resources

Mergers shake up the status quo at companies and help women and people of color move up the ladder. Research mines data from 37,000 deals.

Content: Article | Authors: Lane Lambert, Letian Zhang | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

Employee well-being and performance go hand in hand.

Gallup finds that workers who are thriving in all five elements of well-being (purpose, social, financial, community, physical) miss less work, have higher customer ratings, solve problems more readily and adapt to change more quickly than employees who are only thriving in one element. Employees with high well-being in all five elements also save their companies money in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Bailey Nelson, Jade Wood | Source: “Gallup Management Journal” | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

In an era where companies are paying more and more attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), inclusion remains the most difficult metric to track. From new research, Gartner developed the Gartner Inclusion Index to measure what true inclusion looks like across an organization. The authors outline how to use the Gartner Inclusion Index to measure employee perceptions of inclusion, what effective action looks like … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Kartik Deo, Katie Brown, Lauren Romansky, Mia Garrod | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Companies are struggling to fill open positions, but the job platforms they use often screen out promising candidates just because they don’t tick every box. Joseph Fuller probes the challenges—and opportunities—of “hidden workers.”

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Fuller | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

As a new era of work emerges in a post-pandemic world, leaders must take proactive action to avoid undoing decades of progress toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Content: Article | Authors: Dominique Harris, Kimberly Fulton, Preethi Prasad | Source: “Kearney” | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Although the data from exit studies are a lagging indicator (i.e., data are typically collected when an employee has already decided to leave an organization), studying exits is important for learning how to keep your other star employees and continually improving your human capital practices.

Content: Article | Authors: Camille Patrick, Dipak Sundaram | Source: “Gallup Management Journal” | Subject: Human Resources

From project-based work to a lack of hierarchy, the way people work is changing fast. In this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Chris Gagnon and Elizabeth Mygatt talk about what it takes for companies to be “future ready”

Content: Article | Authors: Chris Gagnon, Diane Brady, Elizabeth Mygatt | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

A culture that doesn’t just exist but that wins for your organization is one you must intentionally create. Strong organizations understand their unique culture, use multiple methods to continuously monitor the state of their culture and align the culture they want with business performance priorities — like attracting top talent.

Content: Article | Authors: Nate Dvorak, Ryan Pendell | Source: “Gallup Management Journal” | Subjects: Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

A great deal of noble and important work has been done on DEI in recent years, but we have hit a ceiling.

Content: Article | Authors: Gabrielle Novacek, Jean Lee, Matt Krentz | Source: “Boston Consulting Group (BCG)” | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Retention is challenging for many organizations. Retention can also be complicated. Pay and promotions alone can’t keep your best people. And your top performers likely come from different generations and demographic backgrounds. If your employees can’t define your organization’s identity — and what’s distinctive about it — they are likely to head for the exit. This means culture needs to be a part of any … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Nate Dvorak, Ryan Pendell | Source: “Gallup Management Journal” | Subjects: Culture, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior