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Using the Values and Mission of the Organization to Drive Strategy

But recent research suggests that such wellness programs often have limited effectiveness. To truly build a healthier future of work, employers will need to address how their own management practices contribute to employee ill health—and focus on changing those.

Companies can redesign work to make it healthier for employees and, in the process, help decrease employee turnover.

To outcompete Big Oil, the clean energy industry needs to unionize.

Whispers about unionization in the video game industry go back at least a decade. Despite the furor and conversation that piece kicked off, the industry has largely been resistant to unionization.

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 ...

Thomas A. Kochan, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, have been awarded $225,000 in grant funding from the research network WorkRise to conduct a multi-...

Economist Anna Stansbury is joining MIT Sloan’s Work and Organization Studies Group as an Assistant Professor this September, and she will also be part of the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER).

The MIT Sloan website recently published several brief articles focusing on work by IWER faculty members.