A large body of work has established that when employees engage in prosocial behavior to help each other, they find their work more meaningful. Furthermore, workers who believe their work to be meaningful perform better. However, the recent rise in remote work has disrupted this cycle. The harder it is for workers to engage in prosocial behavior, the harder it becomes for them to find meaning in their work, and thus the harder it is for them to perform at their peak.
Assistant Professor Maya Rossignac-Milon, (Managing People in Organizations Department), as lead researcher, suggests a way to overcome the barriers of a changing workplace by developing and testing a strategic and versatile tool to promote prosocial behavior and work meaningfulness. This tool is the experience of shared reality.
Rossignac-Milon and her team will develop and test a method of increasing shared reality in newly acquainted dyads across both in-person and remote contexts. The team includes:
Catalina Enestrom (Post-doctoral Researcher); Managing People in Organizations Department Professors Anneloes Raes, Sebastien Brion, and Beijing Jiaotong University Associate Professor of Business Administration Wen Wu.
