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illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note. 24 Oct 2024 Research & Ideas With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette... View Details

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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 people working multiple jobs... View Details

July 2020
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The Role of Interdependence in the Microfoundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence

By: Marlo Raveendran (formerly Goetting), Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati

Interdependence is a core concept in organization design, yet one that has remained consistently understudied. Current notions of interdependence remain rooted in seminal works, produced at a time when managers’ near-perfect understanding of the task at hand drove the... View Details

Keywords: Interdependence; Organizational Behavior; Work Design; Organizational Design; Goals and Objectives; Knowledge Sharing

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07 Nov 2023
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When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

freelancers’ knowledge and performance, notes the study, which Troncoso conducted with Lan Luo of the University of Southern California. Troncoso stumbled into the online recruiting world in 2019 when she was trying to hire a freelancer... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

13 Nov 2000
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Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

create organizations that keep learning. Firms that come up short in this regard, Garvin asserts, may be condemned to repeat mistakes endlessly, fail to adapt to changing conditions, lose employees who are repositories of important View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

24 Oct 2024
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With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

inflexible or unpredictable work schedules, and employers’ failure to grasp how employees are struggling and to provide them with support, according to a new Harvard Business School report. That disregard harms both workers and companies.... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Feb 2014
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From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort and Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Patrick Gaule, Karim R. Lakhani, Christoph Riedl & Anita Williams Woolley

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Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge

technical know-how. Employers have been trying to “upskill” workers to compete in an automated, artificial intelligence world. But a new paper warns bosses and workers not to forget general—and potentially... View Details

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What We Learned in Three Charts: Innovation, Tariffs, and Gig Work | Working Knowledge

early outcomes of tariffs, and the financial state of gig workers. We look back at some of the quarter's research findings through data visualizations. Tariffs, innovation, and tradeoffs for gig workers were some of the topics that... View Details

October 2020
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Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino

How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity

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