Making Work Work for Everyone in the 21st Century

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–The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) and the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan

 

 

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News
September 9, 2021

New “Work Design for Health” Framework and Toolkit Available

A new “Work Design for Health” framework and employer toolkit—developed by a team of researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—map how to create work environments that foster worker health and well-being.
News
September 14, 2021

Article on Addressing Work Overload Wins Beckhard Prize

The editors of MIT Sloan Management Review have announced that MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen are the winners of the publication’s 2021 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize for their article "Fixing the Overload Problem at Work."
Event
September 22, 2021

Designing the Flexible Workplace

Please join us for “Designing the Flexible Workplace,” a virtual panel discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 22 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. EDT.
News
August 17, 2021

Nathan Wilmers’ Paper on Job Turf Wins Award

MIT Sloan faculty member Nathan Wilmers has won the 2021 ASQ Dissertation Award from the journal Administrative Science Quarterly ( ASQ ) for his paper on “ Job Turf or Variety: Task Structure as a Source of Organizational Inequality .”
News
August 6, 2021

USA Lab Student Projects Featured in Six Recent Articles

Student projects from this year’s USA Lab course, offered jointly by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, have been the subject of a number of articles.
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The Initiative brings scholars, business leaders, policy makers, and students together in the spirit of inquiry and pursuit of knowledge.
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Research

Practice-driven research projects distill the qualities of good jobs and good employers and illuminate factors that influence the creation of good-quality jobs.
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August 25

RT @shellysteward: Excited to talk about how to make sure the #futureofwork provides GOOD jobs for all, along with @RachelKorberg @Familie…

August 25

“Investors want to better understand one of the most critical assets of a company: its people,” observed SEC chair @GaryGensler (previously a professor @MITSloan): https://t.co/a4ztubaFYS

August 24

RT @NBCNews: A pandemic-tightened labor market has given workers more of an upper hand with their employers for the first time in generatio…

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