Academy on Air: Project Oxygen: Why Managers Matter

In 2008, a team of researchers set out to prove what some at Google speculated - that managers don’t matter. The research effort, called Project Oxygen, focused on two questions: 1) Do managers matter? and 2) What if every employee at Google had an awesome manager? Spoiler alert: Managers matter, a lot. Findings concluded that the best managers exhibited a core set of behaviors; those behaviors now guide many of the management development programs at Google. Join us to learn more about the research behind Google's Project Oxygen, and how Google uses data to better understand and develop people managers.