Contributors: Wharton People Analytics Faculty Director Matthew Bidwell, Kira Choi & Isabel Fernandez-Mateo We explore how career paths are shaped by the involvement of search firms in hiring. Drawing on theories of market intermediation, we argue that search firms constrain horizontal moves across functions and industries by favoring workers from…Read More
Contributors: Wharton People Analytics Postdoctoral Researcher Louis Hickman & Nigel Bosch, Vincent Ng, Rachel Saef, Louis Tay, Sang Eun Woo Organizations are increasingly adopting automated video interviews (AVIs) to screen job applicants despite a paucity of research on their reliability, validity, and generalizability. In this study, we address this gap by…Read More
Contributors: Robert W Rebele, Peter Koval, Luke D Smillie Research that helps people change their behavior has the potential to improve the quality of lives, but it is too often approached in a way that divorces behavior from the people who need to enact it. In this paper, we propose…Read More
Contributor: Matthew A. Killingsworth Past research has found that experienced well-being does not increase above incomes of $75,000/y. This finding has been the focus of substantial attention from researchers and the general public, yet is based on a dataset with a measure of experienced well-being that may or may not…Read More
Contributors: Stephanie J. Creary, Nancy Rothbard, Elena Mariscal, Olivia Moore, Jared Scruggs, and Natalia Villarmán During year 1 of the project, team members Elena Mariscal WG’20, Olivia Moore WG’20, and Natalia Villarman WG’20, conducted interviews and helped organize an in-person convening at Wharton in conjunction with the Wharton People Analytics…Read More
By: Reb Rebele and Adam Grant The Atlantic We didn’t sign a consent form, but we’re all participants in the world’s largest natural experiment in behavior change. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, millions if not billions of people around the globe are pleading for systemic solutions. In the meantime,…Read More
By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, and Adam M. Grant PNAS Although diversity training is commonplace in organizations, the relative scarcity of field experiments testing its effectiveness leaves ambiguity about whether diversity training improves attitudes and behaviors toward…Read More
By: Federica De Stefano, rocio bonet and Arnaldo Camuffo Academy of Management Journal VOL. 0, NO. ja | This study examines the performance consequences of planned turnover. In particular, we investigate the departure of temporary workers due to the expiration of their contracts. We reconcile the contradictory predictions of collective turnover research—that any type…Read More
By: James J. Choi, Emily Haisley, Jennifer Kurkoski, & Cade Massey PROJECT SUMMARY Researchers tested the effects of including cues, anchors, and savings goals in a company email encouraging employee contributions to their 401(k). IMPACT Researchers found that providing high contribution rate or savings goal examples, or highlighting high savings…Read More
Although research on human and social sustainability has flourished in the past decade, the role that human resource management departments play (or should play) in facilitating more socially responsible and sustainable organizations remains unclear.…Read More
