Men reap greater benefits than women when they support co-workers, MIT study finds
Historically, men have had well-documented advantages in the workplace, including receiving higher pay than women and being considered more often for promotions. Now it appears that men may also be rewarded more than women for supporting their colleagues.
According to a new study from MIT Sloan Management Review, men received scores for level of encouragement and rewards for social support for their co-workers that were 11% higher than the scores received by women. “Organizations need to focus on social ROI for all employees. Every employee deserves a high return for investing effort in their workforce community, regardless of their demographic characteristics,” said Constance Noonan Hadley, one of the study’s authors and a lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
“While organizations continue to seek ways to better retain women and members of underrepresented groups, reduce the isolation with remote and hybrid work, and bolster job engagement and satisfaction, they should reexamine how they define, encourage, identify, and reward socially supportive behaviors at work,” Nancy Baym, a senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research and co-author of the study, wrote about the findings.
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