Working from Home: How to Stay Engaged, Motivated, and Connected

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Working from Home: How to Stay Engaged, Motivated, and Connected

Nancy Rothbard P'22, '23 will discuss challenges and strategies to effectively work from home.

By Friends Select School

Date and time

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 · 5 - 6pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Nancy Rothbard, the David Pottruck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Chair of the Management Department, will discuss challenges and strategies for effective work from home, taking different work styles into consideration.

Technology has made remote work so effective in recent years, and it has also created a more permeable boundary between work and family roles, making it more difficult to psychologically detach and recover from work and creating a need to more actively manage the work-family boundary.

With the advent of COVID-19 and the work-from-home restrictions imposed on many workers, this boundary has become even more porous. Work-from-home is no longer entirely at the employee’s discretion, moreover, employees must work alongside other family members who are also working or learning from home. These work-from-home challenges are exacerbated by the fact that people navigate the work-family boundary in different ways. Integrators tend to blur whereas segmentors strive to preserve a clear work-family boundary. Given these different approaches to navigating the work-family boundary, a key concern for employees and organizations is how to structure work-from-home so that it is effective for both integrators and segmentors, being especially mindful of how this situation might affect segmentors who likely find this situation more challenging.

Nancy Rothbard is the David Pottruck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the Chair of the Management Department. She studies what motivates people to bring their full selves to work and how this affects their work engagement, performance, and relationships. In particular, she examines how people navigate the boundary between work and personal lives in the context of diverse organizations and technological change. She has worked with companies in a number of industries focusing on issues such as work motivation and engagement, teamwork, leadership, emotions, identity, the changing nature of work, and work-life balance issues.

She earned her A.B. with honors in History from Brown University and her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Michigan. Since joining the Wharton faculty in 2000, Nancy has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, WEMBA, Ph.D., and executive education programs, receiving the Wharton Teaching Commitment and Innovation Award and Wharton Teaching Excellence Awards. She is faculty director for several Executive Education programs including The Leadership Edge and Women’s Executive Leadership.

Nancy is an award-winning scholar and teacher who brings the latest thought leadership to her teaching and consulting. She has published her research in top academic research journals in her field and her work has been discussed in the general media in outlets such as ABC News, NBC News, Business Week, CNN, Forbes, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The New York Times, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Nancy is the parent to Jacob ‘22 and Rebecca ‘23, both Friends Select lifers.

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