A panel of practitioners explores how to solve worker shortages and offers three best practices for success.
A new book explores how game theory explains seemingly irrational behavior, from tastes in food to how people donate to charity.
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MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Erin L. Kelly is one of three winners of the 2025 Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Academic Fellows Award; in addition, two alumni of the IWER PhD program, Janice R. Fine and Andrew Weaver, also won LERA awards this year.
This presentation for new hires provides the new employees with an introductory overview of the organization's Health and Well-being Committee program. The Health and Well-being Committee model was developed by researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Pub...
On this page, you can download sample recruitment materials designed for organizations that are creating a new Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC). A HaWC is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. The Health and...
