August IWER Newsletter: Worker Voice and Empowerment
The August 2024 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online.
The August 2024 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online.
A recent MIT Sloan doctoral dissertation sheds light on three steps managers can take to empower workers who have ideas about improving the workplace.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has received the 2024 Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network.
When Kevin Berkemeyer graduated in 2014 with an MBA, his relationship with MIT Sloan and the Sustainability Initiative didn’t end there.
Anne Castille Buisson, an MIT Sloan Master of Business Analytics student, loves the potential freedom of a future career in data science. Spend the day with Anne as she interacts with classmates in a Power and Negotiation class and devotes time to the MBAn Leadership Council at MIT Sloan.
MIT Sloan alumni discussed the challenges and opportunities that result from exploding energy demand in real estate at MIT Sloan Reunion 2024.
As new technologies like generative AI continue to advance, Elizabeth Petheo, EMBA ’14, believes we should remain focused on the human-technology interface.
What happens to company profits, wages, and consumer prices when union membership becomes more affordable for employees? That’s a question posed in an interesting working paper by Samuel Dodini, MIT Sloan Professor Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén.
As a city planning student at MIT, Dasjon Jordan, SM ’19, served on the boards of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning Student Council and the Students of Color Committee. He wanted to complete an Action Learning project before he graduated, but his packed schedule of classes and activities ...
Distinguished scholars from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe came together at the MIT Sloan School of Management in early June for a two-day conference in honor of Professor Susan S. Silbey.