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Employees are engaged in 2026: HR, what are you doing to keep the momentum going?
UNLEASH features McLean & Company’s 2026 Employee Engagement Trends Report, with Laura Hansen-Kohls sharing how HR can sustain rising engagement through stronger culture, leadership, and rewards strategies.
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More than six in ten workers feel engaged despite AI job cuts
This article from Benefits and Pensions Monitor outlines that employees are staying in their jobs and engagement has quietly improved, even as AI‑linked layoffs and economic jitters rattle workplaces. The piece focuses on McLean & Company’s Employee Engagement Trends Report 2026, taking a look at...
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Here's How 19 HR Leaders Define Psychological Safety In The Workplace
Forbes features insights from members of the Forbes Human Resources Council on how HR leaders define psychological safety in the workplace, emphasizing that it is measured through behaviours, such as speaking up, challenging ideas and admitting mistakes, rather than employee sentiment alone. Draw...
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How can HR improve performance criteria?
HRD highlights McLean & Company research, with experts Leann Schneider and Justine Czencz outlining how better performance criteria can improve clarity, fairness, and employee trust.
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You Can’t Engage Employees With Criteria They Don’t Understand
CXM World (Customer Experience Magazine), a global publication focused on customer and employee experience trends, explores why employee engagement efforts fail when expectations and evaluation criteria aren’t clearly understood. The article argues that unclear metrics and misaligned communicatio...
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HR's influence at work stalls – how can it be rebuilt?
HCAMag reports that HR’s influence within organizations is stalling, according to new research from McLean & Company, with fewer HR teams being seen as strategic partners in planning and execution. The article highlights that this decline comes despite clear links between HR involvement and stron...
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HR leadership gaps put AI adoption at risk as change fatigue rises, McLean & Company report finds
Complete AI Training reports on new research from McLean & Company warning that gaps in HR leadership are putting AI adoption at risk as organizations struggle with rising change fatigue. Based on a survey of more than 1,600 organizations, the report finds companies are implementing AI faster tha...
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How HR Leaders Can Elevate Employee Voices, Beyond The Survey
In this article from Forbes HR Council, McLean & Company's President, Jennifer Rozon, shares insights around how HR teams and department leaders must find new, more dynamic ways to ensure unheard voices become central to decision-making. Rozon comments on the importance of normalizing informal li...
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Why Is Pay-for-Performance Failing to Motivate Employees?
Most pay-for-performance plans aren’t motivating because they don’t clearly tie rewards to meaningful, differentiated results, leaving employees cynical and disengaged. Research from McLean & Company shows that when pay doesn’t clearly reflect performance, trust erodes and high performers jump sh...
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Press Releases
McLean & Company Announces Innovation Strategist Shawn Kanungo as Keynote for Signature 2026 HR Conference
McLean & Company has announced globally recognized innovation strategist and bestselling author Shawn Kanungo as a keynote speaker for Signature 2026, the firm's flagship HR conference taking place October 4–6, 2026, at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Known for his high-energy presentations and expert...
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McLean & Company Announces Signature 2026, Its Flagship HR Conference, Taking Place in Las Vegas This October
Signature 2026 has been announced with a renewed focus on McLean & Company's timely and enduring theme, "Human-Centric, Future-Ready." An evolution of the conference's core message, the 2026 event reflects the growing urgency for HR leaders to balance rapid change with people-first strategies. ...
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Post-Incident After-Action Reviews Are Critical to Building Organizational Resilience, Says McLean & Company
New research from McLean & Company shows that when organizations intentionally slow down after a crisis to reflect, create space for honest and psychologically safe dialogue, and act on what they learn, disruption becomes a catalyst for resilience rather than a trigger for repeated failure. The f...
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How Values and Behaviors Drive Results in the Workplace: New Culture Case Studies from McLean & Company
With organizations increasingly facing talent pressures and rising expectations around employee experience, many still struggle to translate culture into practical, day-to-day behaviors. New case studies from global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company spotlight how organizations across...
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McLean & Company Releases HR Trends Report for 2026: Highlights Growing Gap Between Organizational Change and Leadership Capacity
McLean & Company, one of the world's leading HR research and advisory firms, released its HR Trends Report 2026 today. Based on new data from 1,626 human resources and leadership respondents, the firm reports that organizational change is outpacing leadership capacity as AI, economic uncertainty,...
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People Leaders Are Overloaded and Undersupported, McLean & Company Finds in Major New Study
The demands placed on people leaders have expanded beyond what organizations currently support, with rising complexity, shifting employee expectations, and continuous change pushing the role to an unsustainable point. Global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company's latest research calls...
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Charting the Future of HR Leadership: McLean & Company Introduces CHRO Playbook
In response to the rising complexity and influence of the CHRO role, global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company has launched the CHRO Playbook, a strategic framework and guided partnership built to help HR leaders lead with clarity, confidence, and impact. Combining a road-tested capab...
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McLean & Company Launches New HR Benchmarking Advisory Service to Help HR Leaders Move From Metrics to Meaningful Action
Global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company has launched its HR Benchmarking Advisory Service, a first-of-its-kind offering that combines trusted external benchmark data with personalized advisory support to help HR executives transition away from raw numbers and into strategic action. ...
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Closing the Hiring Gap: McLean & Company Guide Offers Practical Framework for Measuring Quality of Hire
Global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company has released its new research piece, Guide to Measuring Quality of Hire, at a time when HR leaders face mounting pressure to maximize investments in recruiting while demonstrating the value of talent selection for long-term business outcomes. ...
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