Welcome to a new contributor — Martha Crowley

The WIP team is delighted to welcome a new regular contributor, Martha Crowley, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University.

Martha has published leading research on inequality, poverty, work intensification and job insecurity. Her most recent research has focused on dignity at work.

In her first post here, Martha presents a critical review of the recent Gallop report on “employee engagement” at work, which, she argues, incorrectly blames the lack of engagement at work on individual employees while neglecting the more important role played by organizational design and good management.