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  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Social Performance (CSP)? A: Corporate Social Performance is a term used to describe "strategic" behavior by a firm. When a firm engages in environmental or other... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

similar in both groups. The researchers detail their findings in the paper, "Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery." The key takeaway in the paper: "Career incentives, far from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 16 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

portfolio," says Stuart. "All that is premised on the coordinating role of the corporate headquarters and corporate staff positions." The key word is theoretically. As Stuart explains, there is actually very little empirical data about how a company's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Nov 2011
  • News

Are Humans Cost-Effective?

occurred to me (at my customary snail’s pace) that IBM missed a PR bonanza by not making its marvelous machine a woman. But I digress. Watson’s performance at times was puzzling. The machine answered 34 questions, all correctly. Yet it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Web

Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Production: A Cooperative Enterprise What the industrial worker wants is . . . a method of living in social... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

flash talk entitled "The "of Color" Is Black" at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium: The Master's Tools: Exposing, Rejecting, & Appropriating Elizabeth Johnson presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium Elizabeth Johnson presents a flash talk, entitled "What View Details
  • Web

The True Costs of Gig Work | Working Knowledge

designing jobs that serve both employers and employees. Gig work seems to offer it all: Workers ready to perform specific tasks or projects, and flexibility for employees. Or does it? New research finds that... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

different tasks, helps improve worker productivity. We also find that workers with higher variety are more likely to stay at the firm. Our results identify new ways to improve operational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Staying Afloat

shipyard's new director, Kryzstof Piotrowski, a former worker at the yard who had been dismissed six years earlier for political reasons and had gone on to get a doctorate in maritime engineering. Piotrowski View Details
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance (Harvard Business Press). As a practical guide, The New Science of Retailing helps retailers mine their sales data to identify and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

incentive scheme over a linear one, even though this reduces pay for many subjects and despite the presence of clear feedback. Additionally, the linear scheme attracts demotivated, underconfident workers who View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been analyzed in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

large numbers of global firms adopting company-wide English-only policies, Neeley has spent years studying how the policy affects non-native English speakers. For example, her research into a Japanese company that required all workers to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

have identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Piovesan Abstract To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

standard for workers in construction, farming, and other professions that require strenuous outdoor labor. SMI built a successful national sales base from its headquarters in Massachusetts by establishing channels with large department... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
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