“Workers’ voice efforts play a critical role in improving working conditions and fostering more equitable workplaces“, an insightful article on unionization from HRPI Faculty Fellow Michel Anteby, Academy of Management, December 2024.
HRPI Co-Director, Connie Hadley’s new article: “We’re Still Lonely: It’s Time for Organizations to Take a New Approach” is featured as the cover piece in the November-December edition of Harvard Business Review. Overview: In recent years, the huge impact that work loneliness is having on healthcare costs, absenteeism, and turnover has received widespread attention. Despite […]
HRPI Co-Director Connie Hadley article featured in Harvard Business Review with co-authors Hooria Jazaieri, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein on ways managers can support employees with Bipolar disorder. “Whether leaders know it or not, chances are their workforce contains people with bipolar disorder. This article discusses three measures that organizations can take to bring out the […]
The spring 2024 HRPI Member Meeting was filled with top tier insights on the future of work: • Debbie Lovich, Managing Director & Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group, shared innovative research on the benefits of cultivating joy in the workplace across generations and job structures. • Tracy Keogh facilitated our member roundtable of hot HR topics. • Connie […]
Starbucks Investors Approve Pay Package That Drops DEI Reference, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Starbucks Corp. shareholders approved a plan to drop a bonus tied to DEI goals for its executives and replace it with a more general workforce target while also shifting more compensation to financial performance. “Starbucks’s switch to “talent” avoids the term DEI, which […]
We are pleased to announce that The Case Centre recently published a new HRPI case study developed by Fred Foulkes and Ted Childs , in cooperation with Microsoft’s Chief Diversity Officer Lindsay-Rae McIntyre entitled, Empowering Every Person and Every Organization on the Planet to Achieve More: Microsoft’s Diversity & Inclusion Strategy. Visit The Case Centre […]
We are looking forward to celebrating Cheryl Johnson and Heather Vogel at the HRPI fall meeting of members on November 2, 3. Read about Cheryl Johnson and Heather Vogel.
“The surgeon general of the United States has declared loneliness a lethal pandemic, equating it to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Boston University organizational psychologist Constance Hadley studies one environment where a loneliness outbreak seems to be spreading: the workplace.” The Brink, Pioneering Research from Boston University. Read the full article.
COMPANIES MAY BENEFIT FROM TRANSPARENCY ABOUT RACIAL DIVERSITY EFFORTS Employers viewed more positively, even when they disclose negative data, study finds. WASHINGTON – Companies that reveal their struggles to increase racial diversity in their workforces are perceived as more trustworthy and committed to diversity than companies that remain silent, according to research published by the […]
HRPI Fellow Connie Noonan Hadley was quoted in the Boston Globe about her research on remote work. “Hadley was one of the researchers on a 2022 survey exploring loneliness and remote work, which found that 42 percent of workers who had the ability to work remotely reported feeling the most socially fulfilled when working from […]