Why Employees With Working-Class Roots Are Better at Getting Their Ideas Heard
MIT Sloan Mgmt Review ·Yasha Spriha and Subra Tangirala. <p>Yasha Spriha is an assistant professor of management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Subra Tangirala is the dean’s professor of management at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smi ·31 August 2026
Nimble Made/Unsplash Getting manager buy-in for a good idea is harder than it should be. Our research points to a communication style that reliably breaks through this wall — and that is disproportionately exhibited by white-collar employees with working-class origins. We studied how employees present ideas to their ma...
Nimble Made/Unsplash Getting manager buy-in for a good idea is harder than it should be. Our research points to a communication style that reliably breaks through this wall — and that is disproportionately exhibited by white-collar employees with working-class origins. We studied how employees present ideas to their managers by conducting a field survey of […]
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Why Employees With Working-Class Roots Are Better at Getting Their Ideas Heard