Category: Kanter

Learn how small changes in leadership and workplace culture can make a big difference in well-being, performance, and family engagement at this year’s Kanter Lecture, March 6 at 3 p.m. Kanter Award Finalist, Ellen Ernst Kossek will highlight how training supervisors to be more supportive can help employees feel less burned out and more engaged.

This event recognizes and shares findings from articles selected as finalists for the 2025 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. In engaging TED-style talks, authors will share the major takeaways from their studies, and Dr. Reynolds will facilitate a Q&A to follow.

The Center for Families at Purdue University has launched a powerful new resource to support work-family research: the Kanter Zotero Library. This curated collection includes the over 400 peer-reviewed articles that have been nominated for the prestigious Rosabeth Moss Kanter...

Wen-Dong Li , Jiexin Wang , Tammy Allen, Xin Zhang, Kaili Yu, Hong Zhang, Jason L. Huang, Mengqiao Liu, and Andrew Li are the winning authors for their article Getting under the skin? Influences of work–family experiences on personality trait adaptation and reciprocal relationships.

CFF SPEAKER SERIES On April 8, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Julie Holliday Wayne brings her research that draws on five different studies to conceptualize and operationalize “invisible family load”, and it provides a new, robust, and well-validated measure of that work.

At just 13 years old, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth organized her first conference with the intent of helping enhance processes in her church. Now a distinguished professor in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, MacDermid Wadsworth has focused her career on making a greater impact. 

Celebrating the Kanter Award's 25th Anniversary, CFF brought Rosabeth Moss Kanter to the 2024 Work and Family Researchers Network conference, June 19-22, Montreal, Canada.

The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research, celebrating the award's 25th anniversary! Vanessa...

The Center for Families and Center for Work and Family at Boston College announced this year's Kanter Award nominated articles, with six in the running for the top honor, to be announced June 20th at the WFRN conference.

On March 28, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Anette Fasang discussed her findings about intersectional life course perspective on gendered and racialized combinations of work and family lives from early adulthood to mid-life, and the long-term perspective that maps enduring and...