Category: Event

February 28, 2019

Invisible families, invisible conflicts: Work-family conflict for LGB families

2019 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Katina Sawyer's research which calls attention to the overly restricted assumptions about “family” in prior WFC research, and seeks to serve as an impetus for aligning WFC research more fully with the complex realities of modern...

May 29, 2018

My Family Made me do it: Family-Work Conflict and Abusive Supervision

2018 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Stephen Courtright discussed his Kanter Award winning research which answers the more critical question of why supervisors behave abusively toward subordinates, in an effort to understand its causes and decrease its occurrence.

March 29, 2017

Professional image maintenance: How women navigate pregnancy in the workplace

2017 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Laura Little’s 2016 Kanter Award nominated research expands the understanding of experiences pregnant women face by examining motives and strategies they use to manage their professional images at work.

September 29, 2015

Adopting work-life policies around the world: What motivates employers?

2015 Kanter Lecture: Dr. Ariane Ollier-Malaterre’s 2014 Kanter Award Winning research examines the role of public policies, unemployment rates, and the cultural centrality of work in employers’ adoption of work-life policies, and explores which types of employers are most sensitive...

April 29, 2014

Flexible work practices: A source of career premiums or penalties?

2014 Kanter Lecture: Lisa M. Leslie investigates the extent to which managers attribute employees’ use of flexible work practices (FWP) to productivity and personal life motives, and the implications of these attributions for how managers view employees’ commitment and employees’...