SEMINARIO ACADÉMICO: "Achieving Meritocracy in the workplace"

El Observatorio de Gestión de Personas del Departamento de Administración de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile tienen el agrado de invitarlos al Seminaro Académico denominado “Achieving Meritocracy in the Workplace” presentado por el profesor Emilio J. Castilla, Professor of management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
El seminario se efectuará el día jueves 11 de octubre a las 13:15 horas en la sala P-301 (Edificio Placa), ubicada en la Escuela de Postgrado de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile.

Abstract Seminario Académico

In my research, I focus on the organizational aspects of work and employment, investigating how social and organizational processes (for example, social networks, performance-reward systems, and managerial roles) influence key employment outcomes for individuals and organizations over time. I formulate and answer my research questions in a variety of empirical settings, making use of field and experimental research methodologies. Given the widely popular goals of promoting meritocracy and creating opportunity inside organizations and institutions, for a number of years now, I have focused on the role that merit and merit-based work practices play in shaping employees’ careers in today’s workplace. In my presentation, I will summarize some of my most recent projects on achieving meritocracy in the workplace. In so doing, I will stress the practical insights of my research into the areas of employment, organizations, and workplace inequality.

Emilio J. Castilla

Ph.D Castilla is the NTU professor of management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He joined MIT in 2005, after being a faculty member in the Management Department at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the head of the Work and Organization Studies Group. He is also a faculty member of the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT, and a research Fellow at the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School. He received his post-graduate degree in Business Analysis from the Management School in Lancaster University (UK) and his PhD from Stanford University.

Professor Castilla studies how social and organizational processes influence key employment outcomes over time. His work has been published in top academic journals and edited volumes, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review. He has also written a book on the use of longitudinal methods in social science research (Elsevier/Academic Press).

Professor Castilla has taught in various degree programs at MIT Sloan, the Wharton School, and a number of other international universities and colleges. His teaching interests include Strategic Human Resource Management, Strategies for People Analytics, Leading Effective Organizations, Building Successful Careers and Organizations, and Organizational Behavior. In addition to teaching full-time MBA and executive courses, he has taught several PhD-level research seminars and courses.

La visita del Profesor Emilio Castilla es co-financiada por el MIT Sloan Latin America Office y la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Ciencia y Tecnología para el desarrollo del Proyecto Regular Nº11617171 de Movilida Social, Inequidad y Segregación Laboral: El Rol de las Organizaciones y la Gestión de Personas