Thomas J. Allen, SM ’63, PhD ’66, a beloved member of the MIT Sloan community for more than half a century, died November 13 after a brief illness. He was 89.
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of Mary P. Rowe’s tenure at MIT, where she began as the Special Assistant to the President and Chancellor for Women and Work—a role that evolved into an early organizational ombuds, listening to workplace concerns, from both men and women, throughout the Institute.
An updated and expanded version of the “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit—developed by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—has been launched.
This collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis on work and well-being that has been conducted in recent years by scholars affiliated with the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) and their colleagues at other universities.
This script is designed to accompany training presentations for the co-leads of a new Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC). A Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC) is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. The H...
Meritocracy has become an increasingly popular term. But MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains in The European Business Review that saying an organization is meritocratic can increase bias.
In an October 2024 article for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan School Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan and UC San Diego Professor John S. Ahlquist explain the steps involved in forming a union.
The Good Jobs Institute, founded by Professor of the Practice Zeynep Ton, helps companies improve frontline jobs and company performance.
MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative Director Jason Jay, PhD ’10, helps organizations decide on and implement their sustainability goals
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) co-leads this executive education Course with MIT Professors David Autor and Sandy Pentland.
