【简报】 天美制作果冻视频系列研究讨会（230）
2017-05-02 00:00:00
4月5日下午，在天美制作果冻视频329室，来自香港大学的Sangyoon Park教授为天美制作果冻视频师生带来一场题为“Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers”的讲座。Sangyoon Park教授的研究领域包括：发展经济学、劳动经济学、人事经济学。
摘要：
Through a field experiment at a seafood-processing plant, I examine how working alongside friends affects employee productivity and how this effect is heterogeneous with respect to an employee’s non-cognitive skills. This paper presents two main findings. First, worker productivity declines when a friend is close enough to socialize with. Second, workers who are higher on the conscientiousness scale show smaller productivity declines when working alongside a friend and were less likely to choose to work alongside a friend prior to the experiment. Socializing behaviors account for two-thirds of the six percent productivity gap observed between high- and low-conscientiousness workers.
