In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Yasha Spriha, Assistant Professor of management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University

They discuss:

• Why workers with blue collar roots have a more collaborative style when approaching managers and why that is frequently well-received
• Why it can be ok to present ‘Half-Baked Ideas’
• Why giving both workers and managers a voice matters more than ever
• Why organizations can benefit from hiring workers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds

Host:

Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including her most recent Working it Out: Getting Ready for the Redefined World of Work (2023), she is also a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail and the Host of podcast ‘Work and the Future’.

As a sought-after keynote speaker, Linda’s audiences have spanned a range of audiences and have included clients such as The Economist Magazine, LVMH, American Express, and the Bank of Montreal all of whom have benefitted from the way that she can take huge ideas and distill them into information that organizations can use for their own strategic planning purposes.

Guest:

Yasha Spriha (yspriha@asu.edu) is an assistant professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland and her master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research explores how employees share ideas and concerns at work, and what makes their efforts successful. She also studies how socioeconomic and sociometric status shape workplace dynamics.

The link to the research discussed in the episode:

https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2023.0042

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