How to Fix the Workplace--for Real--with Jeffrey Pfeffer

Jeff Pfeffer is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and author of several provocative books, including "Dying for a Paycheck," "Leadership B.S.," and the newly-published "7 Rules of Power." In this episode of the New Human Movement, we talk to Jeff about why human-centric management practices remain rare (despite the mounting evidence of their positive impact on worker well being and organizational performance), and what can be done to change this. According to Jeff, two levers are most critical: (1) measuring the toxic effects of current management practices, and (2) holding executives accountable for creating human-centric workplaces.
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Jeff Pfeffer's website: jeffreypfeffer.com
7 Rules of Power: jeffreypfeffer.com/books/7-ru...
Dying for a Paycheck: jeffreypfeffer.com/books/dyin...
Leadership BS: jeffreypfeffer.com/books/lead...
Jeff's excellent summary of why human-centric work practices create value but nonetheless often fail to get adopted, appearing in the Journal of Economic Perspectives: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10...
Producing Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through the Effective Management of People, Academy of Management Perspectives, 1995: www.researchgate.net/publicat...

[@CrazyWizza]

Well said gentlemen. The solution to labor issues is to respect the workers and put effort towards humans and the resources towards them.

[@sambell624]

Thanks again for another ‘humantific’ conversation. CEO super compensation of 500 times that of the basic worker is anachronistic and immoral. Capitalism should not be a get-high drug but a cure.

[@sambell624]

Will the companies get it only when it s too late ?