In male-majority groups, women suffer from a clear deficit in influence compared with men in female-majority groups.| The Organizational Plumber
An impossible effect and a very small p-value may suggest data tampering. After my replication, I analyzed and compared the data Gino has sent me with the data from the replication. This report summarizes the oddities I found.| The Organizational Plumber
This post gives an overview of the author's network and productivity over the years.| The Organizational Plumber
A recent article suggests that, following the #MeToo movement, men were less likely to collaborate with their female colleagues. The effect appeared stronger when 1) sexual misconduct tends to be reported, 2) sexual harassment policies are ambiguous and 3) women have liberal beliefs.| The Organizational Plumber
49 years later... We have causal evidence for the "strength of weak ties"!| The Organizational Plumber
This post summarizes the anomalies found in a paper published in Psychological Science in 2015 by Gino, Kouchaki, and Galinsky.| The Organizational Plumber
This post summarizes the anomalies found in a paper published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2020 by Gino, Kouchaki, and Casciaro.| The Organizational Plumber
An impossible effect and a very small p-value may suggest data tempering. After my replication, my team and I analyzed and compared the data Gino has sent me with the data from the replication. This post summarizes the oddities we found.| The Organizational Plumber
In 2014, Casciaro, Gino, and Kouchaki (hereafter CGK) published an influential paper for our understanding of networking behaviors. Specifically, the authors offered experimental evidence that people view networking actions as morally impure, which leads them to feel physically dirty when networking, which ultimately heightens the mental accessibility of cleansing-related concepts. In the present paper, I challenge the theoretical premise and the empirical evidence presented in CGK. To that e...| The Organizational Plumber
This paper, published in Nature, investigates the effect of remote work on patterns of collaboration and communication in a company, and found that working remotely makes it harder for employees to acquire and share new information.| The Organizational Plumber
A paper published in the American Economic Review sheds light on a new factor that makes it more difficult for women to climb the corporate ladder: Male managers support their male subordinates more in their career progression.| The Organizational Plumber
When people seek to improve an idea, an object, or a situation, they are more likely to select an additive solution (adding new components) rather than a subtractive one (removing existing components), even when the latter is the better alternative. How did researchers document this effect? Why is it happening? And what can organizations do to thwart this tendency?| The Organizational Plumber
This paper proposes an integrative model connecting different motivations (i.e., for power, affiliation, and achievement) to various networking behaviors (i.e., search, maintenance, and leverage), and exploring how each of those networking behaviors relate to different network properties (i.e., size, diversity, and density). To test the hypothesized model, a cohort of EMBA students provided information about their motivations, the type of networking behaviors they undertake, and their network...| The Organizational Plumber
Casciaro, Gino, and Kouchaki (2014, hereafter CGK) have proposed that people view networking actions as morally impure and therefore feel dirty when doing so, which in turn triggers a need for cleansing. In the present paper, I challenge the theoretical premise and empirical evidence presented in CGK. I first argue that the core concept of the paper (i.e., moral purity) lacks theoretical grounds and construct validity, and highlight several methodological issues that threaten the original con...| The Organizational Plumber
Here is my dissertation in full!| The Organizational Plumber
While women network as much as men, they seem to benefit less from their networking activities. One possible mechanism to explain this paradox is that women network less efficiently than men because they renounce some networking actions for fear of being misjudged. Since women are sometimes stereotyped as able and willing to use their power of attraction to manipulate men, certain networking strategies could appear risky to them. In particular, women may expect that actions aimed at deepening...| The Organizational Plumber
My perspective on the Gino-Ariely scandal, and what we should learn from it.| The Organizational Plumber