Shaunn Mattingly, an associate professor in the management department, was invited to participate in a research project with scholars at one of the National Science Foundation’s funded I-Corps sites, Cal Poly Pomona.
I-Corps sites coordinate projects through the various stages of commercialization, including team building, customer discovery, developing a business model canvas and presenting ideas to industry professionals. Mattingly and his colleagues recently designed and launched a survey instrument to collect primary data over the next two years related to participants interests in, and actual efforts towards, designing their new businesses to emphasize dignity at work (organization design) and dignity in work (job design) based on personal or third-person workplace dignity violations. Mattingly previously published a paper on dignity in and at work affecting employee engagement.