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Matthew Bidwell

Career Management Isn’t Just the Employee’s Job

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By Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano MIT Sloan Management Review Careers are much more complex than they used to be, even within organizations. Now that companies have replaced rigid hierarchies with flatter, more fluid team-based structures to promote agile ways of working, they have also made it much harder for…Read More

February 27, 2019   |   Content, Popular Press

Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility?

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Bidwell Discusses Contractual Obligation

Wharton People Analytics’ own Professor Matthew Bidwell discussed the perils for contract workers in today’s workplace on Knowledge@Wharton. While the gains are alluring to employers, the results can be counterproductive by establishing second-class status, changing the workplace dynamic and causing friction.…Read More

October 13, 2017   |   Popular Press

Shifts and Ladders: Comparing the Role of Internal and External Mobility in Managerial Careers

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Employees can build their careers either by moving into a new job within their current organization or else by moving to a different organization. We use matching perspectives on job mobility to develop predictions about the different roles that those internal and external moves will play within careers.…Read More

March 31, 2016   |   Academic Papers
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