The Center for Working Well will aim to be at the cutting edge of research when it comes to “working well.” This means ensuring that employees are able to thrive at work and at home by maintaining their well-being (i.e., reducing emotional exhaustion, burnout, and anxiety) and building positive social relationships at work.
We also want to understand how the changing nature of work (e.g., remote and hybrid work, digital nomadism) and issues at the work-nonwork interface (e.g., complex caregiving demands, and the impact of health issues on the workplace) affect well-being. To that end, faculty associates within the Daniels School and across Purdue will have the opportunity to apply for an annual small grant program to fund research related to the mission of the center.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
For too long, organizations hiring employees have implicitly or explicitly endorsed job performance as the ultimate goal. Much of our recruitment and selection strategies are geared toward finding employees who can perform the best. While employee performance is fundamental to organizational success, this focus is too narrow.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Infants born late pre-term and early-term are at greater risk for neonatal morbidities including hypoglycemia, jaundice, temperature instability, feeding difficulties, dehydration, and infection during the first weeks of life than full-term infants. Despite the well-established benefits of breastfeeding, these morbidities may affect feeding behavior.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Employee well-being is of concern to hospitality organizations, especially as they strive to retain employees at all levels and promote work-life balance. However, hospitality is also known for long hours, unstable work schedules, high job demands, and work-life conflict, all of which can negatively impact employee well-being and increase health-related costs for organizations.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tourism has been seen as a way to relieve people's social stress, but the psychological mechanism underlying the process is still under debate. This research attempts to provide an alternative explanation on tourists' social wellness change between home and destination environments.
Monday, January 29, 2024
Allison Gabriel, the Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business and director of Purdue's Center for Working Well, explores how witnessing sexual harassment can influence employees’ willingness to speak up, bring up a concern or offer a suggestion.
Friday, January 12, 2024
With the technology and communication tools available today, the boundary between work and life outside of work has become increasingly blurred, exacerbating issues around work-nonwork conflict. Can social media language be used to detect this conflict?
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
In countries such as the United States that lack maternity or parental leave beyond 6-8 weeks, workplace accommodations for lactating workers are essential. Without breast milk expression accommodations, women employees must choose between breastfeeding their children and full employment.
Monday, October 23, 2023
According to Purdue Assistant Professor Tobias Dennerlein, organizations increasingly attempt to reorganize themselves — to decentralize leadership and become more agile and team-based. To this end, company leaders often preach empowerment, which is a proactive orientation towards one’s work role.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Do nice people really finish last? And what exactly does it mean to be “nice” anyway? According to Purdue Assistant Professor Jordan Nielsen, people have long debated whether a desire to help others — prosocial motivation — is an asset in the workplace, or a liability.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Which combinations of coping strategies are beneficial for employees’ work and well-being? Kelly Schwind Wilson's research outlines multiple strategies for successfully managing stressful demands, including planning, prioritizing, positive reframing, and seeking emotional and instrumental support.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Around one in seven women develop postpartum depression, but from an organizational and managerial perspective, little is known about how women who go through this critical experience reenter the workforce successfully, says Allison Gabriel.
Friday, September 8, 2023
Management experts often encourage business leaders to motivate employees by empowering them, but a majority of American workers right now are not feeling very motivated on the job, a new survey by Tobias Dennerlein suggests.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Ellen Ernst Kossek looks at the popular press and scholarly research and shows that both suggest that the pandemic created a seismic disruption to work and nonwork boundaries and has set back women’s careers and gender equality a generation.
