The Good Jobs Imperative
A good job is a way out of poverty. With that idea in mind, Barbara Dyer has for decades been focused on good jobs—and, in particular, how organizations can create more of them for workers.
A good job is a way out of poverty. With that idea in mind, Barbara Dyer has for decades been focused on good jobs—and, in particular, how organizations can create more of them for workers.
In a new podcast, MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury explains her research on the links between the decline in U.S. workers’ power in recent decades and increasing income inequality.
What can we learn from the way management and labor leaders in Germany are working together to address the future impacts of technology on business and the workplace? In this article, Thomas A. Kochan, Wilma B. Liebman, and Inez von Weitershausen draw on insights from a September 2018 event on this ...
A new “Work Design for Health” framework and employer toolkit—developed by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management—map how to create work environments that foster worker health and well-being.
MIT Sloan Research Affiliate Barbara Dyer is one of 39 leaders in the field of public administration who have been elected to the 2021 Class of Academy Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration.
“7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being,” a new article by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and three colleagues from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was published this week on the website of Harvard Business Review.
Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen argue in "Overload" that, in many of today's professional and managerial jobs, "the way we work is not sustainable." The reasons include long hours, multitasking, and pressure to be always available via digital technologies yet also in the office for "face time" during th...
MIT Sloan Professors Emilio J. Castilla and Erin L. Kelly are the new Co-Directors of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER). Castilla and Kelly describe the transition at IWER and their plans for the future in the following note.
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In a recent paper, MIT Sloan’s Paul Osterman finds evidence that companies have choices about the wages they pay, and that some companies can be successful through “High Road” employment practices that result in better-quality jobs. But it's not at all clear, he concludes, that such High Road employ...
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In this article, MIT Sloan Professor Katherine Kellogg and a team of coauthors describe a project they have been working on involving the use of a specialized online jobs platform to bring new job applicants to open positions at skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemi...