How to Work Out What Your Employees Really Want
In this INSEAD Knowledge podcast, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour Mark Mortensen proposes a more holistic approach to understanding employees’ needs, while offering practical solutions to ensure that they remain fully invested in their organisation and its goals.
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Mark Mortensen, Nick Measures | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Why You Should Apply Analytics to Your People Strategy
Bringing advanced computing power and analytics capabilities to bear on people decisions in an organization is crucial to driving lasting and effective change.
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Simon London | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Human Resources
Listen to This Podcast on How Google Develops Great Managers
Managers have a big influence on the culture and happiness of the workplace. Hear from Google’s manager development team on how they select, train, and support managers.
Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Training & Development
What’s Stalling Progress for Women at Work?
Corporate America’s gender-diversity programs are falling short. Companies need to think differently to ignite change.
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Alexis Krivkovich, Eric Kutcher, Simon London | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Women in Business
Focusing on What Works for Workplace Diversity
For faster progress, companies need to draw on the power of design, rethink their assumptions, and use data to inform decision making.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Iris Bohnet | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Women in Business
Top Execs Eschew Performance-Based Pay
Professor David Lewin says incentives make sense for all employees.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Lewin | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Compensation, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior
Bosses Are Accountable Too
Professor Samuel Culbert says a good working relationship is a two-way street.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Samuel Culbert | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior
Dual Theory of HRM and Business Performance
Professor David Lewin offers a hybrid model for the modern workforce.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Lewin | Source: UCLA | Subject: Human Resources
U.S. and Japanese Firms Differ on H.R. Emphasis
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Sanford Jacoby | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Human Resources, International – Asia
Why the Most Common Diversity Programs Don’t Work
And what to do instead
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Reinventing Performance Management
Performance management is broken. See how Deloitte overhauled its system in this 7-minute video slide deck.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Marcus Buckingham | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
Why You Should Know How Much Your Coworkers Get Paid
How much do you get paid? How does it compare to the people you work with? You should know, and so should they, says management researcher David Burkus. In this talk, Burkus questions our cultural assumptions around keeping salaries secret and makes a compelling case for why sharing them could benefit employees, organizations and society.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Burkus | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
The Secret to Building High-Performance Teams
What makes certain teams excel and others perform below par? In a new book, Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance, Mario Moussa, Madeline Boyer and Derek Newberry divulge the surprising secrets to developing a high-performance team and the common mistakes groups make that hinder their cooperation.
Jeffrey Klein, executive director of the McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton, recently spoke with Moussa, a Wharton … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Jeffrey Klein, Mario Moussa | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Can People Analytics Help Firms Manage People Better?
How an organization makes its people-related decisions has a huge impact on its success or failure. But traditionally, these decisions have largely been based on intuition and biases and therefore have been prone to error. But now, companies are starting to use data and sophisticated analysis in issues such as recruiting, compensation and performance evaluation because they believe it can help in better decision making. … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Adam Grant, Cade Massey | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior
Ask Norm: What Kind of People Should I Hire?
Norm Brodsky explains what he looks for when hiring people for his companies.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Norm Brodsky | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Human Resources
How Effective Is a Number-crunching Approach to Managing People?
Human resource professionals have begun to use sophisticated data analysis for all sorts of people-related issues ranging from recruitment and performance evaluation to promotion and compensation. People analytics, as this approach is called, is making waves because it is said to eliminate biases that exist in human judgment. Cade Massey, practice professor of operations and information management at Wharton, works at the intersection of psychology … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Cade Massey | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
The Dual Theory of HRM and Business Performance
Professor David Lewin offers a hybrid model for the modern workforce.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Lewin | Source: UCLA | Subject: Human Resources
Age Matters: Smart Organizations Develop Employees Throughout Their Careers
Professor Barbara Lawrence says smart organizations develop employees throughout their careers.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Barbara Lawrence | Source: UCLA | Subject: Human Resources
Netflix Presentation on Culture
Ever since Netflix’s awesome vacation policy was revealed to the public (basically, there is no policy, it’s take the time you think you need), the company’s work policies have been of interest to people. A new 128-page presentation called “Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture” was recently sent around the company, and then put on SlideShare, where the blog Hacking Netflix found it.
The … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior
Good Boss, Bad Times
Management expert Robert Sutton shares lessons on handling layoffs and teams in crisis.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Human Resources