Why Employee Wellness Programs Don’t Work
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
How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Rethinking Total Reward Strategies
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
12 New Approaches To Compensation
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 | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates — And 50+ Interview Questions to Suss Them Out
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 | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
The Manager’s Role in Employee Well-Being
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
How to Measure Inclusion in the Workplace
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
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 | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Unapologetically DEI: Designing Equity and Inclusion Into the New Era of Work
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
The Real Value of Getting an Exit Interview Right
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
How to Future-Proof Your Organization
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Culture Wins by Attracting the Top 20% of Candidates
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
It’s Time to Reimagine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Culture Wins When You Listen to Your Top Performers
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: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
How Narcissists Climb the Career Ladder Quickly
People with a high degree of narcissism get promoted faster, new research shows. Why?
Content: Article | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Why You Need to Compete for Employees Like You Do for Customers
Employees are now consumers of the workplace. A new generation of worker expectations, greater workplace transparency and a tightening labor market have driven companies to compete for candidates just as fiercely as their products have to compete for customers.
And companies like Glassdoor make it easy to anonymously review companies and managers. That gives workers the chance to consider insider reviews about companies and job opportunities … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Essential Ingredients for an Effective Onboarding Program
A better onboarding program can help reduce that high turnover. Here are some guiding principles, common pitfalls to avoid and four key considerations.
Content: Article | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Do you manage up or down?
It’s not easy to spot those who spend all their energy looking up, so organizations need systems to root them out.
Content: Article | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
How to be a great sponsor
When you’re asked to help young, underrepresented talent succeed, here’s what you’ll need to know to do the job right.
Content: Article | Authors: Iwan Barankay, Peter Cappelli | Source: “[email protected]” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior