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Diversity

Is Your Team Culturally Competent?

There’s a big difference between being an international company and being a global one.
Performance Management

How You Can Use Conflict to Build a Better Team

Conflict can be a really important defense against unhealthy workplace relationships.

paid parental leave
Disability

Paid Family Leave: What’s the Right Model?

Paid family leave of all types increased significantly between 2016 and 2018.
HR Leadership

How Business Leaders Can Navigate the Unknown—and Thrive

The author of a new book on risk talks about the benefits that can come from being uncomfortable.
gender
Talent Management

Redefining Gender at Work: How Companies Are Evolving

The question of gender in the workplace has grown more complicated due to #MeToo and Time’s Up.

motivating gig workers
Talent Management

What Motivates Workers in the Gig Economy?

Wharton’s Gad Allon discusses his research on what drives decisions for gig economy workers.

using fear to motivate workers
Talent Management

Does Fear Motivate Workers or Just Make Things Worse?

If you’re using fear to motivate your workers, what is it ultimately achieving and at what cost?
gender equity on boards
Performance Management

Does Adding Women to the Board Improve Company Performance?

Experts debate whether a new gender-equity law in California will yield the results lawmakers expect.
diversity and inclusion
Performance Management

Here’s How to Overcome Your Biases

A new book shows how taking stock of our unconscious biases can lead to enlightenment.
Talent Management

How the Great Recession Changed American Workers

Many workers who kept their jobs or found new ones following the crisis now face delayed retirements.

innovation
Performance Management

How a Little Friction Sparks Innovation

Companies are injecting tension into teams as a way to build a more innovative office culture.
colorful shadows of business people overlapping meant to depict how to develop effective anti-bias strategies
Learning and Development

How to Develop Effective Anti-Bias Strategies

Can more and better training really result in workers who stop, think and change their ways?
HR Leadership

Linking Empathy and Innovation

Empathy is a wellspring for innovation because it comes from one’s ability to grasp the needs of others, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Performance Management

The Perils of Automation

New academic research finds that automation can actually lead to increased costs and inefficiencies because of its dysfunctional impact on human teams.

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