Jamie Ladge

Is there a minimum amount of time you need to stay at a job?

“Baby boomers and prior generations typically spent much of their careers in one organisation,” explains Jamie Ladge, associate professor of management and organisational development at Northeastern University in Boston. “More current generations have evolved from this thinking.”

Dads are doing less at home again, fearing a career hit

There are also cultural norms that come into play, including traditional notions of men being the “breadwinners” of the family, said Jamie Ladge, an associate professor of management and organizational development at Northeastern University who studies work-life integration. Unspoken workplace rules discourage fathers from taking full advantage of paternity leave when it’s offered, with more […]

Dads Are Doing Less at Home Again

Childcare Is a Business Issue

Alicia Sasser Modestino is an Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Jamie Ladge is an Associate Professor of Management at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter Business School. […]

Kids at Home Could Put the Economy in Detention

A survey by Northeastern University economists Alicia Sasser Modestino, Jamie Ladge and Alisa Lincoln conducted in May and June found that 13.3% of working parents lost their job or reduced their hours because of a lack of child care.

Working moms always battled shame. The pandemic just made it worse

Jamie Ladge is an associate professor of management and organizational development at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a distinguished research professor at the University of Exeter Business School.

More fathers are protesting unequal treatment at work

Men also sometimes get teased by male co-workers for being an involved parent, making it less socially acceptable for them to take time off to care for their children, said Jamie Ladge, a management and organizational development professor at Northeastern University. “We always say women are their own worst enemies, but I think men are […]

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Balancing act: Working dads’ changing roles

“Involved fathering has positive work-related outcomes that can benefit organizations,” says Jamie Ladge, an associate professor of management and organizational development at Boston’s Northeastern University and an author of a study on fathers published in the Academy of Management Perspectives in February. But Ladge says her research also found that many men feel stigmatized at […]

Men's Health

‘Don Draper got it right’ and other fatherhood wisdom from Adam Carolla

MH: There’s a recent study out of Northeastern University in Boston, looking at how fathers interact with their kids. They found that when dads spent more time with their children, they were less stressed about their jobs and less inclined to want to quit. AC: Okay. MH: Jamie Ladge, one of the professors who co-authored […]

Study says fathers involved at home are happier at work

Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. Jason Manekas is getting ready to leave his sunny ninth-floor office in the Seaport District to pick up his 5-year-old daughter, Perry. A framed photo from a father-daughter dance — Perry clutching a pink puppy purse, Manekas wearing a pink tie — sits on a shelf; Perry’s stick-figure drawings grace the inside […]