Updated Topic: When Work Hurts: Understanding and Addressing Values-Based Harm in the Workplace
Please note: This event has been updated from the originally scheduled talk on succession planning. We're pleased to feature a new speaker and session that offers fresh insight into the emotional and psychological dimensions of work today.
What happens when your job asks you to act against your values—or exposes you to harm simply because of who you are? This talk explores the growing issue of values-based harm in today’s workplaces, where employees may experience deep emotional and psychological distress from value conflicts, identity threats, and unanticipated exposure to traumatic or morally challenging work. Drawing from cutting-edge work on moral injury, trauma, and identity in the workplace, Dr. Crayne will translate multidisciplinary theory and research into practical tools for business leaders. Attendees will learn how to recognize hidden sources of harm, support employees facing emotionally difficult roles, and build healthier, values-aligned organizations.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Matthew Crayne is Associate Professor and Chair of Management at University at Albany Massry School of Business. His research focuses on the intersection of leadership, work values, and social identity, particularly on the role of leaders as organizational sensemakers, the concept of moral injury and its effect on both leadership and followership, and issues of ideological and values-based organizing. He is interested in the application of these concepts in both traditional organizational settings and in non-normative contexts such as extremism, terrorism, and political violence, and aims to expand the reach of organizational science to national security and public policy applications. He has received more than $700k in federal funding to study these topics, and his work has been published in leading scientific outlets in psychology and organizational science including American Psychologist, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business Ethics. Prior to academia he worked as a consultant in the human capital strategy practice at PwC.
Event Location Details
Date
Wednesday, May 21st
Time
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
NYU Wasserman Center
The Wasserman Center for Career Development is New York University’s central career development resource, providing services and support to undergraduate students, graduate and graduate certificate students, postdocs, and alumni with a bachelor’s, master’s, graduate certificate, or doctoral degree from nearly every NYU school.
133 E 13th Street, 3rd Floor
NY, NY
