Today you will learn from expert guest Ravi S. Gajendran about remote work, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:37) - What is remote work?
- (04:10) - Why would remote work help to solve climate change?
- (07:36) - Why would remote work not help to solve climate change?
- (09:35) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (12:51) - How does remote work as a solution work?
- (15:29) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (16:33) - Recommended resources
- (17:33) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (19:41) - Final recommendations
- (20:41) - Activity
Dr. Ravi Gajendran is Professor and Alvah Chapman Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair in the Global Leadership and Management Department (GLAM) at Florida International University.
He is also the Department Chair of the Global Leadership and Management Department. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Pennsylvania State University. Before entering the doctoral program at Penn State, he had a career in sales and marketing for over seven years working for multinationals such as Cadbury’s and Procter & Gamble. Prior to joining FIU, Ravi was on the faculty of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he featured on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for every year he taught there. At FIU, he has taught courses on organizational behavior, leadership, and human resource management at PhD, MBA, and undergraduate levels. He has won multiple teaching awards at FIU including Faculty Excellence and Course Excellence Awards.
His areas of research expertise include remote work, virtual teams, impacts of communication technology, leadership, and human capital development. He is a member of the editorial board of three top-tier journals: Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. Dr. Gajendran is the recipient of research awards from the Academy of Management including the Best Student Paper Award (2006) and the DeSanctis Award for Best Paper based on a Dissertation (2012).
He is a well-recognized expert in the area of remote work and his research has been featured in several public policy documents and prominent media outlets including New York Times, USA Today, Fox Business News, Entrepreneur.com, Inc.com, and Forbes. His research has been cited by the Report to Congress on the Status of Federal Telecommuting Arrangements. In addition to publishing his research in top-tier journals, he has also written articles for managers that have been published in Harvard Business Review and Business Today.
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