Sentient Select 2024 Review
Research
Employee Engagement & Retention
Generations in the workforce 🔗
Strategic HR Review
This study leverages 8+ years of HR experience to reveal that while the five generations in the workforce share similar desires, their communication preferences differ. It offers insights to improve engagement across generational divides.
The impact of procedural justice on employee turnover intentions and the role of two mediators 🔗
Organization Management Journal
This study examines how procedural justice, job characteristics, and meaningful work affect employees’ intentions to leave their organizations. Findings show procedural justice reduces intentions to leave, especially when mediated by job characteristics and meaningful work.
The behavioural changes managers need to make to boost staff confidence – and how HR can help 🔗
Strategic HR Review
This paper shows that shifting managers to Operational Coaching® boosts engagement and productivity, with a 70% increase in coaching time and a sixfold improvement in employee retention.
Oxford Academic
This research shows that social support and feedback significantly boost performance more for older workers than younger ones, highlighting the need for supportive workplace relationships to enhance productivity in an aging workforce.
Workplace Diversity & Inclusion
Stanford Graduate School of Business
This research analyzes 163 diversity training programs to assess their content and effectiveness. It identifies challenges in achieving desired outcomes and offers five recommendations for aligning training with organizational equity goals.
Research: Why Companies Should Disclose Their Lack of Progress on DEI 🔗
Harvard Business Review
Many companies aim to enhance employee diversity but often fall short, and transparency about this lack of progress can signal genuine commitment. However, prolonged inaction may diminish any positive perception from such disclosures.
Leadership & Organizational Development
Non-financial resources to enhance companies’ profitability: a stakeholder perspective 🔗
Management Research Review
The study finds that stakeholders’ non financial resources (NFRs) positively impact company profitability, suggesting that valuing NFRs can enhance financial performance.
Why building a mentoring culture can be transformational 🔗
Strategic HR Review
This paper highlights how fostering a mentoring culture can address recruitment, development, and retention challenges by leveraging knowledge transfer. It includes case studies showing the transformative impact of mentoring on organizational success.
The relationship between coaching behaviors by situational leaders and new employee engagement 🔗
Strategy & Leadership
The study examined the impact of SLII Coaching on new employee engagement in medium-sized organizations, highlighting its significance for improving engagement and reducing turnover.
The dilemma of leadership development 🔗
Strategic HR Review
This article explains how leadership development programs can use ROI Methodology to link behavior changes to business outcomes and meet executive expectations.
How Recognition Drives the Goals of the C-suite 🔗
Workhuman
Move your organization along in its journey toward a culture of appreciation. Use this guide to build a business case for recognition.
Technological Impact & Workforce Trend
Management Research Review
This study finds that digital technology boosts the effect of high-performance work systems (HPWSs) on innovation, with a stronger impact in firms with low employee participation.
Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2024 🔗
PwC
PwCs survey reveals employees feel overwhelmed by workplace changes but are open to adapting and utilizing technologies like generative AI. Leaders must clearly communicate the reasons for change to ensure successful transformation.
Mental Health & Well-being
Oxford Academic
This study highlights how shift work can negatively impact older workers’ mental health, emphasizing the need for age-sensitive HR practices. It suggests that organizations conducting age structure analysis can enhance employee well-being.
3 Misconceptions About Burnout – and How to Fix Them 🔗
Workhuman
Deloitte’s research reveals that 77% of employees experience burnout at work. Download this paper to explore misconceptions about burnout and discover effective strategies for alleviating workplace stress.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Organizational secrecy creates social divides and affects employee well-being by increasing work stress while enhancing the meaningfulness of work. This dual impact, observed across multiple studies, leads to conflicting effects on overall job satisfaction.
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