Feeding Babies Isn't Easy, but Help Is on the Way
Andrea Ippolito, SDM ’12, understood the health care industry inside and out, but that didn’t matter as an exhausted new mom weighing feeding options for her daughter.
Andrea Ippolito, SDM ’12, understood the health care industry inside and out, but that didn’t matter as an exhausted new mom weighing feeding options for her daughter.
New Report on U.S. Workers' Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions
WorkRise has published a new report that reviews and synthesizes academic research on employer practices that foster economic mobility for disadvantaged workers. The report, "Employer Practices and Worker Outcomes: A Landscape Report," was coauthored by faculty affiliated with the MIT Institute for ...
For decades, MIT Sloan Professor Lotte Bailyn has been calling for changes in the way work is organized -- often in ways that have proven prescient.
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In this December 2023 working paper, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan and five additional co-authors from MIT identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
The December 2023 issue of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) newsletter includes a special focus on women and work.
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In this study, the authors reviewed the contemporary literature on working voice measures, conducted two different surveys of U.S. workers, and tested different voice measures to understand their associations with various job-related outcomes. The authors develop a framework that captures important ...
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Steve Rusckowski, SM ’84, former chairperson, CEO, and president of Quest Diagnostics, believes small changes can have a major impact on company culture.
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New research finds that measuring the extent to which workers have as much say on the job as they think they deserve is an important aspect of evaluating job quality. In a survey of workers, a larger "voice gap" for workers was statistically associated with their having lower levels of job satisfact...
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During an event at the MIT Sloan School, MIT Sloan Professor of the Practice Zeynep Ton spoke about her recent book, “The Case for Good Jobs."