Anita Boey

Anita Boey
Assistant Professor, Human Resources & Management

Overview

Anita has a passion for discovering new findings and sharing knowledge, making a significant impact on the field of Failure Sharing, Knowledge Sharing, Learning from Failure, Creativity and Innovation at the Workplace.

Anita's network of samples includes software engineers in 11 high-tech companies in Shanghai, China. Two of these companies are startups, six of these companies are multinationals, and three are medium-sized Chinese companies. Anita's research answers the questions of why individuals want to share their failures at work, who they share their failures with and what they learned from sharing their failure. One big portion of the data points at the leader as a source of influence to either share or not share one’s failure with others, which ultimately affects learning.