Led by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, a team of researchers recently completed a multiyear study of how working conditions and worker voice affect worker well-being in e-commerce warehouses.
This report by Fei Qin, an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Bath, and Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, describes what the authors believe to be a state‐of‐the‐art learning system at IBM Corporation and traces the effects of...
Despite a long history of research on training in the fields of organizational psychology, human resources, and labor economics, little is known about the state‐of‐the‐art in training practices offered by employers, use of training opportunities by employees, or the effects of training and upskillin...
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."
Phyllis Wallace spearheaded a precedent-setting legal decision in the federal case against American Telephone and Telegraph Co., then the largest private employer in the United States.
How do women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.
In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,
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-...
Why do many U.S. colleges give preference to applicants who are relatives of alumni? A new paper coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla sheds light on this question.
This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowe...
