Learn how companies use a range of compensation tools—from wages and health insurance to profit-sharing or tuition reimbursement—to attract and keep good employees.
To create effective high-performing teams, businesses need to think about how they treat their workers—how they’re hired, how they’re offered opportunity for advancement, and how their daily work lives are managed.
Leaders set direction, craft an inspiring vision, and provide employees with the tools and training to achieve objectives. As Dwight Eisenhower once put it, leadership is “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
The concept of “teamwork” encompasses a number of aspects of work—from the formal formation of work teams to informal collaboration with colleagues. When structured well, with shared objectives and incentives, teamwork can be a boon to operational success—and to employee satisfaction.
Investing in employee training is a key aspect of creating high-quality jobs. Whether provided on the job or through internal, external, or online coursework, training can be a catalyst for solving business problems and achieving high performance.
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(Note: Many of the case studies you'll find here were developed by The Hitachi Foundation.)
Two recent graduates of MIT Sloan want to let current students in on one of the school’s best-kept secrets: MIT Sloan is a great business school to learn about managing people wisely. With that aim in mind, Jenny Weissbourd MBA '18 and Megan Larcom MBA '18 have coauthored a new guide that...
This 2018 paper by Victoria Lee, who graduated from the MBA program at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2018, examines the attitudes and beliefs about self-driving truck technology held by different trucking industry stakeholders.
A new paper stemming from a worker voice research project supported by the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan will be forthcoming in the journal ILR Review in 2019.
This paper, currently titled "Voice Gaps at Work, Options for Closing Them, and Challenges for Future Actions...