Journals To Boardrooms

Researchers found that staying late leads observers to automatically infer that an employee is committed — spontaneously, below conscious awareness. Managers who believe they evaluate on merit may be evaluating on optics without knowing it.

There is a version of your hiring process that evaluates technical competency perfectly and predicts organizational fit very poorly. Personality research published in Frontiers in Psychology points to what that version is missing.

There is a difference between recognizing someone's work and rewarding it. Research shows one enhances motivation and one erodes it. Most programs are doing the wrong one at scale.