Category: Organizational Development

How to create work that gets employees energized

The drivers, factors, and contexts that boost work motivation. Key Points: Stand out elements for work motivation are goal setting, feedback, and feeling supported by your manager. Human motivation is not fixed; it can change through mindsets, circumstances, and outcomes. Tasks that involve creativity, autonomy, teamwork, and well-being are strong drivers of intrinsic motivation, the
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“Working together”: Does it really matter for Team Performance?

Key Points: Team collaboration is not fixed; embedding it is a great target for organizational improvement. Teams can be designed for collaboration. Focus on building collaboration into tasks and outcomes the team is pursuing. Team collaboration can impact how we think, act, and feel about our teammates. In turn, it improves performance. This Evidence-Based Summary has
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Trust in Leadership – One Key Factor During Organizational Change

Key Points – Employees who trust their leaders may feel more committed, more satisfied, and more likely to stay – Trust in leadership helps organizational change because it can create a collaborative environment where people share their knowledge – Leaders can build trust by making processes fair and transparent, treating people equally, and allocating resources
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Why you should consider fairness when designing your change management process

Key Points There may be no single recipe for getting fairness “right” during an organizational change. However, research on fairness offers some compelling ideas to consider. You can integrate fairness into your change approach in various ways — the results or outcomes, the process you use to make decisions, how people are treated, and the
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