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7 Abril 2022, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

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Lecture given by Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Ohio State University

Title: "The Development of Coparenting across the Transition to Parenthood"

Sumary: Why do some new parents form strong and effective coparenting relationships whereas others do not? Dr. Schoppe-Sullivan will introduce the concept of coparenting relationships-those shared by individuals who have joint responsibility for raising children-and their importance to family functioning and children's social-emotional development. She will then outline her program of research that has focused on uncovering factors that affect the development of coparenting relationships across the transition to parenthood.

Temporal Dynamics of Workplace Diversity

25 Fevereiro 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa

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Conferencia com o titulo "Temporal Dynamics of Workplace Diversity", apresentado pelo Professor Florian Kunze (University of Konstanz).

Organizational works teams are getting increasingly diverse due to trends like the demographic change and an increasing workforce participation of women. Unfortunately, field research on work team diversity and its relation to team processes and outcomes has produced inconsistent results to date. In this talk, I will present new research from my working group at the University of Konstanz in which, we try to solve these inconsistencies by taking a dynamic perspective. I will first present a paper, in which we research the effect of demographic dissimilarity on absenteeism behavior by team members over time. Integrating social identity theory with the theory of anchoring events (i.e., key social interactions), we propose that individual absenteeism behavior depends on the relational dissimilarity to the team age and gender. Using a sample of 2,711 individual newcomers in 820 blue-collar teams tracked over seven years, we show that gender and age dissimilarity effects are not constant over time; rather, dissimilar individuals increase their absences more strongly over the years. Particularly, women and older employees in predominantly male and younger teams show a steeper increase in absenteeism over time and, accordingly, higher absolute absenteeism at later stages of team membership than do their less dissimilar counterparts. In the second part of my talk, I will focus on currently running large-scale data collection project of migrants newly entering the workplace, in which we plan to test some key theoretical assumptions from the prior study.