PEOPLE ANALYTICS
Building Better Work
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March 14-15, 2024
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COMMUNITY
Partnership
Opportunities
Seeking organizations interested in getting actionable, data-driven insights while cultivating the next generation of People Analytics practitioners.
Thanks to the generous support of The Moh Foundation, The Moh Foundation Applied Insights Lab provides opportunities for students, researchers, and organizations to work together to advance the practice of people analytics.
Thanks to the generous support of The Moh Foundation, The Moh Foundation Applied Insights Lab provides opportunities for students, researchers, and organizations to work together to advance the practice of people analytics. Learn more here.
RESEARCH
EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR
Inclusion in the Workplace:
Actions for Middle Managers
While disruptive times often breed uncertainty and a scaling back of investment in workforce talent, research has found that companies that renew their commitment to employee development in a downturn recover more quickly. To help companies create more effective talent management solutions in these unprecedented times, experts at Wharton People Analytics and DiversityInc Media, LLC collaborated to investigate the relationships among diversity and inclusion practices and employees’ experiences at work, with a focus on the factors driving feelings of inclusion and belonging in companies today.
RESEARCH
EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR
Inclusion in the Workplace:
Actions for Middle Managers
While disruptive times often breed uncertainty and a scaling back of investment in workforce talent, research has found that companies that renew their commitment to employee development in a downturn recover more quickly. To help companies create more effective talent management solutions in these unprecedented times, experts at Wharton People Analytics and DiversityInc Media, LLC collaborated to investigate the relationships among diversity and inclusion practices and employees’ experiences at work, with a focus on the factors driving feelings of inclusion and belonging in companies today.
CONTENT
News & Articles
Check out our Wharton People Analytics content feed for everything from academic papers and popular press articles to full conference videos and radio shows from Wharton People Analytics’ faculty, staff and friends.
Matthew A. Killingsworth, Daniel Kahneman, and Barbara Mellers | The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Do larger incomes make people happier? Two authors of the present paper have published contradictory answers. Does happiness rise with log (income) and then plateau beyond $75,000/y, as Kahneman found in 2010? Or does happiness rise steadily with log (income) without a plateau, as I’d found in 2021?
Atta Tarki and Cade Massey | Harvard Business Review
Hiring the best talent remains a persistent struggle for many companies. That’s because they are doing it wrong — often looking at the labor pool for carbon copies of people who are already successful in their roles.
Matthew Bidwell, Kira Choi, and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo | Industrial and Labor Relations Review
The authors explore how career paths are shaped by the involvement of search firms in hiring. Drawing on theories of market intermediation, they argue that search firms constrain horizontal moves across functions and industries by favoring workers from within the same function and industry as the role being filled.
Stephanie Creary | Knowledge@Wharton
The Wharton School’s Stephanie Creary speaks with experts about how increasing access to accurate data can help drive changes in DEI policies.
Various Authors | Harvard Business Review
Virtually all Fortune 500 companies offer diversity training to their employees. Yet surprisingly few of them have measured its impact.
Adam Grant | The New York Times
The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Why People Analytics?
MIT Sloan Management Review
New to People Analytics?
Explore our collection of insightful articles from Wharton People Analytics Faculty to kickstart your journey!
Adam Grant | February 05, 2019
Confirming what people already believe can help organizations overcome barriers to change.
Can We Really Test People For Potential?
Reb Rebele
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
Angela Duckworth
Career Management Isn’t Just the Employee’s Job
Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano
How You Can Have More Impact as a People Analyst
Cade Massey
Executive Education
Leading Today’s Talent
The future of work is not “coming” — it’s here. From hybrid work to record-setting attrition rates, what it takes to manage your most valuable asset — your people — is changing.
Leading Today’s Talent: Management Strategies for an Evolving Workforce will equip participants with the proven skills required for successful people management — but through the much-needed lens of the ever-shifting future of work.
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