Renowned systems scientist Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, Leadership and Sustainability at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Founding Chair, Society of Organizational Learning and Founder, Academy for Systems Change, joined us on campus for our recent SHINE Summit (The Future Workplace: Building Flourishing Organizations Today) to discuss taking a systems approach to the human impacts of work. In his Summit keynote, Peter addressed why systems theory is more important now…
SHINE paper chosen as a “Best of 2021” by American Journal of Health Promotion
A SHINE research paper – Character Strengths Involving an Orientation to Promote Good Can Help Your Health and Well-Being. Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies – was chosen as a 2021 “Paper of the Year” by the American Journal of Health Promotion. Authors Dorota Węziak-Białowolska, Piotr Białowolski, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely examined the impact of an orientation to promote good—one aspect of strengths of character, understood as having consistent…
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SHINE is hiring!
SHINE (Sustainability and Health Initiative for Netpositive Enterprise) at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking a senior scientist at the Research Associate, Research Scientist, or Senior Research Scientist level to design and analyze studies about individual and population well-being which specifically examine the impact of work. The preferred candidate will have at least five years of experience in psychosocial measurement theory and survey design, multi-level…
New On-Demand Webinar on Social Well-being At Work
New webinar: The Loneliness Pandemic: How We Can Support Belonging as We Return to Work. Watch SHINE Executive Director Eileen McNeely and Research Manager Heloisa Jardim discuss employee flourishing through the pandemic and how to optimize well-being as we return to the workplace. Watch now!
SHINE Research Published In HandBook on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment
SHINE researchers have published a chapter in a new book, A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment, which focuses on the employee as a user of the work environment and seeks to address the very fragmented academic study of workplace design and management. The book, edited by Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and Vitalija Danivska (Aalto University, Finland) aims to open…
Harvard Business School Features SHINE and Levi Strauss & Co. Worker Well-being Research
Harvard Business School’s Working Conditions in Supply Chains site, which focuses on providing key managerial insights from research on assessing and improving working conditions in supply chains, features SHINE’s work with Levi Strauss & Co. The highlighted SHINE study focused on 4,600 workers in eight garment factories in Sri Lanka, Mexico, Cambodia, and China that supplied Levi Strauss & Co. The comprehensive worker survey assessed worker well-being and working conditions…