A panel of practitioners explores how to solve worker shortages and offers three best practices for success.
Do policies that it easier for employees to juggle work and family needs increase the ability of women to advance in organizations? New research from Eunmi Mun, Shawna Vican, and MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly suggests that was indeed the case with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the U...
The pandemic has affected the type of learning the IBM employees in the study pursued, as this graph shows, but the researchers found that "overall learning consumption remains high."
In this study, the authors reviewed the contemporary literature on working voice measures, conducted two different surveys of U.S. workers, and tested different voice measures to understand their associations with various job-related outcomes. The authors develop a framework that captures important ...
In an effort to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates, many contemporary U.S. employers seek to craft gender-neutral job postings by editing language in the postings that may have masculine or feminine connotations. But how much difference do such practices make in reality? Not that much, su...
In a new interview, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly shares insights from her forthcoming book, with Phyllis Moen of the University of Minnesota, on overload in the workplace.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...
What factors make it easier—or harder—for workers, particularly those in low-wage jobs, to achieve upward economic mobility and better employment opportunities? The following collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis related to this topic that has been conducted in recent ye...
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).
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...
