Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Does diversity in personal values affect employees’ productivity? We combine a large-scale survey with granular organizational data to construct measures of workers’ value misalignment with their teammates and their boss. We show that workers who have different values than their colleagues and their managers perform worse than those who have similar values. This negative effect is stronger and more robust for value misalignment with bosses and in hard productivity measures. Our results suggest that value misalignment hinders workers’ motivation and increases managers’ difficulties in coordinating employees. However, teams with more psychological safety are able to alleviate the challenges arising from divergent values.
