What We Learned About Management in 2016, in 19 charts featured image

The 1% and the Asian middle class have gained the most from globalization. The U.S. lower middle class, not so much.

In many cases, Millennials and Baby Boomers want the same things out of a new job. And Boomers are slightly more likely to want to work somewhere fun.

People who are both in demand by their colleagues and are seen as important sources of information at work have the lowest engagement and career satisfaction scores, as represented by the smaller bubbles toward the top right of this chart. (The bigger the bubble, the more engaged the person was.) In other words, collaboration overload is real.

These are the most common ways people quit a job, according to one survey.

Here’s one thing that happens when wealth becomes concentrated in the hands of the 1%.

There’s a strong correlation between not knowing a lot about other countries and thinking your own country is superior.

The IT and media industries are pretty digital. Health care and government, not so much.

These common corporate diversity programs actually make things worse.

These ones work better.

Broadly, China leads the U.S. on trade.

If you’re not an upper-class man, you may be less likely to land a job at an elite firm.

41% of Republican men in the U.S. feel discriminated against “a great deal,” “a lot,” or “a moderate amount.” That’s an increase from four years ago.

There’s a pattern when it comes to who owns the top banks in the U.S.

And a similar one when you look at airlines.

The share of immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S. has been increasing since the mid-1990s.

There’s evidence that generalists get better job offers than specialists.

The “new normal” of cheap oil may have consequences for a number of countries (see the left side of this chart for examples).

Young people are most likely to combine work trips with vacation.most likely to combine work trips with vacation.

The older we get, the more we’re open to self-improvement. Here’s to 2017, I suppose?