Category: Initiative

April 29, 2019

Hungry veterans need help. Here’s how communities can provide it

A recent study by Purdue University’s Military Family Research Institute at 10 faith-based food pantries in Indiana and Kentucky – five pantries in each state – suggests there is promise for underserved veterans and their families.

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...

November 29, 2018

How Addiction Crisis Impacts Indiana Families

Indiana has one of highest rates of children in foster care and much of the blame is placed on neglect related to substance use. The Center for Families at Purdue University hosted a meeting to frame what is working in...

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.

May 14, 2018

MFRI launches innovative tool to support service members, veterans and families

The Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) at Purdue University and the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) unveiled a ground-breaking report “Measuring Our Communities: The State of Veteran and Military Families in the United States” The report unveils rich and...

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’...