OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
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.
