MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)

Congratulations to George Ward! George, who earned his PhD at MIT IWER in 2022, and his coauthor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve have been named to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025 for their work on well-being in the workplace: https://lnkd.in/gDGpscNQ.

We're saddened by the death of Dave Schmittlein, who was MIT Sloan's dean for many years: https://lnkd.in/eK4ci2xA

In a recent Financial Times article, MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J Castilla, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), cautions that companies' attempts at meritocracy “may have unintended negative consequences for organisations and their employees if not carefully designed and implemented by leaders:” https://lnkd.in/eiQMGqDc

Michael Piore, Professor Emeritus at MIT Political Science, MIT Department of Economics, & the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) on innovation: “If we looked in a different direction, we would find different technologies. The direction in which we choose to look, where we should be pushing it seems to me, should be the welfare of society as a whole.” https://lnkd.in/edrvw_Yw

Read about Lotte Bailyn's recent presentation at the IWER seminar on the new book she coauthored, "Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You":

Recently published research by Yaminette Díaz-Linhart, Tom Kochan, Arrow Minster, Dongwoo Park, & Duanyi Yang finds that having a larger gap between how much say workers have on workplace issues and how much they think they ought to have is associated with lower job satisfaction and well-being: https://lnkd.in/eWj9gnre

Read our new compendium of research on worker voice from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) : https://lnkd.in/eFRVZBuc

Despite its limitations, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 had a positive effect on women’s advancement in the workplace in the years immediately following its passage, especially at companies with preexisting family-friendly organizational policies. That’s according to the paper “Points of Departure: Family Leave Policy and Women’s Representation in Management in U.S. Workplaces,” co-authored by MIT Sloan School of Management professor Erin Kelly, who is co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER). https://bit.ly/4hwvvNX

We just kicked off our OMT winter meeting ?? Thank you, MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), for sponsoring this year's meeting ?? Cc: Emilio J Castilla, Wendy K. Smith, Joel Gehman, Silviya Svejenova, Forrest Briscoe, Eva Boxenbaum, Pedro Monteiro, Shubha Patvardhan, Madeline Toubiana, Emily Block, Hila Lifshitz, Andrea Prado, Mia Raynard, Erica Salvaj, Katie Stephenson, Christine Moser, Deborah Anderson, PhD, CPA, Massimo Maoret, Ilaria Orlandi, Giada Baldessarelli, Kevin W. Lee, Richard Haans, Academy of Management #OMT #AOM2025 #OMTtheplacetobe

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