VITA
RICHARD NORMAN BLOCK
OFFICE ADDRESS:
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
428 South Kedzie Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
517-353-3896
517-355-7656 (FAX)
E-Mail: [email protected]
HOME ADDRESS:
1965 Rutgers Circle
East Lansing, Michigan 48823
517-332-2888
517-332-2731 (FAX)
E-Mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Industrial and Labor Relations,
Cornell University, 1977
M.S., Economics, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, 1973
B.S., Economics, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, 1971
FACULTY POSITIONS:
Professor (since July, 1986), Associate Professor (July, 1980 to
June, 1986), and Assistant Professor (September, 1976 to June,
1980), School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Adjunct Faculty, Michigan State University College of Law,
January, 2004 – Present.
Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics and Political
Science, London, United Kingdom, January-March, 2001.
Visiting Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September, 1992 - June,
1993
Research Associate, Institute of Public Policy and Social
Research, Michigan State University, 1991 to present
Faculty Associate, Canadian Studies Centre, Michigan State
University, 1991 to present
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Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business,
Columbia University, New York, New York, January, 1984 through
June, 1984.
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Interim Director and Interim Deputy Director, School of Labor
and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, January,
1999 - August, 1999,responsible for internal administration of a
department-level unit in the College of Social Science with 22
faculty, 12 support staff, 130-student Master of Labor Relations
and Human Resources program, ten-student Ph.D. Program in
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Social Science-Labor and Industrial Relations, noncredit and
outreach programs serving over 7,000 labor and management
practitioners annually, and a library; total budget from all
sources approximately $4.5 million.
Director, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan
State University, July, 1985 to June, 1993; responsible for a
department-level unit in the College of Social Science with 21
faculty, 11 support staff, 130-student Master of Labor and
Industrial Relations program, ten-student Ph.D. Program in
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Social Science-Labor and Industrial Relations, noncredit
extension programs serving over 7,000 labor and management
practitioners annually, and a library; total budget from all
sources approximately $2.5 million.
Associate Director for the Academic Program, School of Labor and
Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, August, 1979 June, 1985, September, 1999 - May, 2000; responsible for faculty
performance recommendations, curriculum monitoring and
development, student recruitment, student advising, course
scheduling, student placement, alumni relations.
Associate Director for the Academic Program, School of Labor and
Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, September, 2001
– August, 2003; responsible for faculty performance
recommendations, overall administration of Master of Labor
Relations and Human Resources and Ph.D. programs.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION/INTEREST:
Labor-Management Relations, Labor and Employment Law, Labor
Union Behavior, Government Supported Employer-Specific Training,
Employment and Social Issues, International Labor Standards,
United States - Canada Comparisons; United States – European
Union Comparisons
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Labor and Employment Relations Research Association (Executive
Board, 1990-93; Teaching Award Committee, 2000)
National Academy of Arbitrators (Chair of Research Committee,
June 1, 2005 – )
American Arbitration Association
Canadian Industrial Relations Association
International Industrial Relations Association
American Economic Association
LABOR ARBITRATION/NEUTRAL WORK:
Member, Labor Panel, American Arbitration Association
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Member, Arbitrator Roster, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service
Member, Arbitrator List, Michigan Employment Relations
Commission
Ad Hoc Hearing Officer, Michigan Department of Civil Service
Member, Arbitrator List, Wisconsin Employment Relations
Commission
Panelist in Matters Related to the Implementation of the North
American Agreement on Labor Cooperation
Member, Permanent Discharge Panel, Georgia Pacific Corporation
and PACE, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Member, Permanent Panel, Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. and United
Steelworkers of America
Member, Permanent Panel, Weil-McLain Inc. and Glass, Molders,
Pottery, Plastics, and Allied Workers International Union
Member, Panel of Arbitrators, Bituminous Coal Operators
Association and United Mine Workers of America, District 12
Member, Panel of Arbitrators, Plastech Engineered Products and
United Steelworkers of America
Numerous labor arbitration cases heard and decided.
PUBLISHED ARBITRATION DECISIONS:
Zurn Industries, Inc., 79 LA 1236, 1982
Gase Baking Co., 86 LA 206, 1985
Kalamazoo Mill Supply, 93-1 ARB Par. 3116, 1992
Selfridge Air National Guard Base, 101 LA 660, 1993
Ohio Education Association, 102 LA 1147; 94-2 ARB Par. 4371,
1993
Ohio Education Association, 108 LA 1147; 98-1 Arb Par 5003, 1996
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Michigan, 97-2 ARB Par. 3302, 1997
Welch Foods, 112 LA 69,1998
Pepsi-Cola Co., 112 LA 1034, 1999
Sodexho Marriott Services, 114 LA 847, 2000
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Muskegon-Oceana Community Action Against Poverty, Inc., 115 LA
1107, 2001
Georgia Pacific Corp., 118 LA 1079, 2003
Bi-State Development Agency, 119 LA 1208, 2004
Magellan Aerospace Corp., 120 LA 945, 2004
LABOR RELATIONS EXPERIENCE:
President and Chief Steward, Local Union No. 2628, Council 34,
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees, February, 1973 to July, 1973
Union Steward, September, 1972 to January, 1973.
PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS/CONFERENCES/SEMINARS:
Presented Paper entitled "The Impact of Union-Negotiated
Employment Security Provisions on the Manufacturing Quit Rate,"
29th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, Atlantic City, N.J., September 16-18, 1976.
Chairperson of Doctoral Dissertation Roundtable, 31st Annual
Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
Chicago, Ill., August 29-31, 1978.
Presented paper entitled "Union Decision-Making and the Supply
of Union Representation: A Preliminary Analysis" 32nd Annual
Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
Atlanta, Ga., December 28-30, 1979 (with Daniel Saks).
Presented paper entitled "A Preliminary Analysis of the
Participation Rate and the Margin of Victory in NLRB Elections,"
34th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1981, (with Myron
Roomkin).
Discussant for Dissertation Roundtable, 34th Annual Meeting of
the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C.,
December 28-30, 1981.
Invited discussant, Conference on Behavioral Approaches to
Research in Industrial Relations, sponsored by the Ford
Foundation and the Graduate School of Business, Columbia
University, Arden House, Harriman, New York, February, 1982
Presented paper entitled "The Legal Environment as a Challenge
to Unions"(with Myron Roomkin), 35th Annual Meeting of the
Industrial Relations Research Association, New York, N.Y.,
December 28-30, 1982.
Presented paper entitled "Employer Attitudes Toward Discharged
Workers," 6th World Congress of the International Industrial
Relations Association, Kyoto, Japan, March 28-31, 1983 (with
Jack Stieber, in absentia)
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Presented paper entitled "The National Labor Relations Act:
Impact on Employees, Unions, and Employers," Annual Meeting of
the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado, June 1-4,
1983 (with Myron Roomkin).
Presented paper entitled "How Representative are Published
Arbitration Decisions?" 37th Annual Meeting of the National
Academy of Arbitrators, Chicago, Illinois, May 22-25, 1984 (with
Jack Stieber).
Presented paper entitled "Labor Law and Fundamental Issues in
Unionism: A Research Agenda," 37th Annual Meeting of the
Industrial Relations Research Association, Dallas, Texas,
December 28-30, 1984.
Discussant for session entitled "The Rise, Decline, and
Resurrection of American Labor Law: A Critical Assessment of the
NLRA at Age 50," at the 1985 Spring Meeting of the Industrial
Relations Research Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 17-19,
1985.
Presented paper entitled "The Legal and Institutional Framework
for Employment Security in the United States," at the
International Symposium on Employment Security and Labor Market
Flexibility, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan,
December 10-12, 1986.
Discussant, Collective Bargaining in American Industry, Pierce
Memorial Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March
7-9, 1986.
Presented paper entitled "The Impact of Employment-at-Will
Judicial Decisions on the Outcomes of NLRB Representation
Elections," at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Industrial
Relations Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, December
28-30, 1986 (with C. Mahoney and L. Corbitt).
Invited discussant, Second Conference on Behavioral Approaches
to Research in Industrial Relations, sponsored by Graduate
School of Business, Columbia University, Arden House, Harriman,
New York, May 22-24, 1987.
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Discussant, session on Industrial Relations and Firm
Performance, 40th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations
Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 28-30, 1987.
Presented paper entitled "American Industrial Relations in the
1980's: Transformation or Evolution," Bargaining Group
Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, May 6-7,
1988.
Presenter at Conference on Labor Policy, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan, September 15-16, 1988
Presented paper entitled "The Propriety of the Employer Serving
as Social Arbiter," at the 1988 National Conference of the
Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights," Virginia
Beach, Virginia, October 13-14, 1988 (in absentia, with Ellen
Ernst Kossek).
Chairperson for session on "State and Local Initiatives in
Employee Training and Labor-Management Relations," 42nd Annual
Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
Atlanta, Georgia, December 28-30, 1989.
Discussant for paper entitled "Research Implications for NLRB
Policy in the 1990's," Second Bargaining Group Conference,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 4-6, 1990.
Presented paper entitled "Labor-Management Innovations in Small
Firms," at the National Labor-Management Conference, Washington,
D.C., May 29-31, 1990 (with J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, D. Gash, E.
Kossek, M. Moore, A. Gilles, and P. McHugh).
Presented paper entitled "Elapsed Time in Grievance
Arbitration," at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of
Arbitrators, San Diego, California, May 29, 1990 (in absentia,
with J. Stieber and V. Nichol).
"Redressing the Imbalance in the Law of Union presentation
Elections: The Principle of Workplace Neutrality," at the 43rd
Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
December 28-30, 1990.
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"Discussion: Research Expectations in Industrial Relations, at
the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, December 28-30, 1990.
"Jointly Administered Training: The View from PIERS," Presented
at the Annual Conference Board Human Resources Conference, New
York, New York, October 14, 1992.
"Grievance Mediation: An Alternative Dispute Resolution
Procedure," at the Annual Meeting of the Pulp and Paper
Manufacturers Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 16, 1993
Presented paper entitled "Labor Law Structures and the
Institutionalization of Collective Bargaining in the United
States: Some Proposals Based on the Canadian Industrial
Relations System" at the AFL-CIO\Cornell Conference on Labor Law
Reform, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, October 24-26, 1993 and the
Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
Boston, Massachusetts, January 2-5, 1994.
Presentation entitled "Variation in U.S. Employment Relations
Systems: Observations on the Hearings of the Commission on the
Future of Worker-Management Relations," to the Fourth Bargaining
Group Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 14-15, 1994.
Presentation entitled "U.S. and Canadian Responses to
Competitive Constraints of NAFTA," at Conference on Free Trade
Among Nations: NAFTA - Implications for Michigan, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan, November 14, 1994.
Presentation entitled "The Industrial Relations Council on GOALS
and the Clark Atlanta Project: The Development of a
Relationship," to the 47th Annual Meeting of the Industrial
Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., January 6-8,
1995 (with D. Kruger, K. Roberts, and K. Stockman).
Presentation entitled "Observations on Legalism in Industrial
Relations in the United States" to the 47th Annual Meeting of
the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C.,
January 6-8, 1995 (with Myron Roomkin).
Presented Paper entitled "Rethinking the National Labor
Relations Act and Zero-Sum Labor Law: An Industrial Relations
View," at the 23rd Mid-Winter Meeting of the American Bar
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Association, Section on Labor and Employment Law, Committee on
the Development of the Law Under the National Labor Relations
Act, Key West, Florida, February 27 - March 1, 1995.
Presented paper entitled "Labor Standards in the United States
and Canada: Towards an Inventory and Research Operationalization" at the 1996 Conference of the Canadian Industrial
Relations Association, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, May 2931, 1996 (with K. Roberts).
Presentation entitled "Student Responses to the Use of
Arbitration Cases in a Basic Collective Bargaining Class:
Implications for the Teaching of Theory and Practice," at the
Conference on Innovative Teaching in Human Resources and
Industrial Relations, Atlanta, Georgia, June 7-8, 1996.
Presented paper entitled "Labor Standards in the United States
and Canada: Towards an Inventory" at the annual conference of
the International Center for Canadian-American Trade, Port
Huron, Michigan, June 17-18, 1996 (with K. Roberts).
Presented paper entitled “Corporations, Corporate Executives,
and Firm Behavior in Japan and the United States: A Framework
and Preliminary Analysis,” at the International Industrial
Relations Association, 3rd Asian Regional Conference, September
30 - October 3, 1996, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (with M. Nitta and
C. Ozeki).
Presented paper entitled “The Role of the Courts of Appeals in
Interpreting the National Labor Relations Act: A Preliminary
Analysis” at the 5th Bargaining Group Conference, October 11-12,
1996, Minneapolis, Minnesota (with M. Roomkin).
Presented paper entitled “Collective Bargaining and the Courts:
An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review of National Labor
Relations Board Decisions and Arbitration Awards,” at the
Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the National Center for the
Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the
Professions, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY, New
York City, April 14-15, 1997.
Presented paper entitled "An Analysis of Labor Standards in the
United States and Canada" at the annual conference of the
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International Center for Canadian-American Trade, Port Huron,
Michigan, June 15-17, 1997 (with K. Roberts).
Presented paper entitled "An Analysis of Labor Standards in the
United States and Canada" at the biennial conference of the
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and
Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 13-16, 1997 (with K.
Roberts).
Presented paper entitled "Quantifying and Ranking Labor
Standards" at the annual meeting of the Industrial Relations
Research Association Chicago, Illinois, January 3-5, 1998 for
Canadian Studies in the United States and Canada, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, January 13-16, 1998 (with K. Roberts).
Presented paper entitled "Measuring and Quantifying Labor
Standards: The Cases of the United States and Canada," at the
1998 Conference of the Canadian Industrial Relations
Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 1-3, 1998 (with K.
Roberts).
Presented paper entitled “Ranking Labor Standards Across
Countries: A Case Study of the United States and Canada,” at the
11th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations
Association, Bologna, Italy, September 23-26, 1998 (with K.
Roberts).
Presented paper entitled “Models of Labor Standards” at a joint
session of the Industrial Relations Research Association and the
North American Economics and Finance Association, New York, New
York, January 2-5, 1999 (with K. Roberts, C. Ozeki, and M.
Roomkin).
Organizer, Seventh Biennial Bargaining Group Conference,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, May 12-13,
2000.
Presented paper entitled “Collective Bargaining, Employment
Security, and Competitiveness in the United States: Lessons from
an ILO Study,” Annual Conference of the Israel Industrial
Relations Research Association, Zichron Yacov, Israel, May 18,
2000.
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Presented paper entitled “An Overview of the Structure of Labor
and Employment Law in the United States,” at the Conference on
Workers’ International Law: Flexibility and Free Markets, Udine,
Italy, June 30 - July 1, 2000.
Presented paper entitled "The Korean Industrial Relations
System: From Post-Independence to Post-IMF," at International
Conference: Transforming Korean Business and Management Culture,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, September 1920, 2000 (with J. Lee and E. Shin).
Organized and chaired session entitled “Collective Bargaining,
Employment Protection/Creation, and Firm Competitiveness: The
Results of an ILO Study,” Annual Meeting of the Industrial
Relations Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January
5-7, 2001.
Presented paper entitled "Collective Bargaining, Employment
Protection/Creation, and Firm Competitiveness in the United
States: The Results of an ILO Study," at the Annual Meeting of
the Industrial Relations Research Association, New Orleans,
Louisiana, January 5-7, 2001 (with P. Berg, M. Moore, M. Polzin,
and D. Belman).
Presented paper entitled "The Economic Impact of Differences in
Labor Standards Across States in the United States,” at the
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association,
Quebec, Quebec, May 26-28, 2001 (with Karen Roberts).
Presented paper entitled “Theoretical Perspectives on the
Political Economy of the Korean Industrial Relations System,” at
the European Congress of the International Industrial Relations
Association, Oslo, Norway, June 25-29, 2001 (with Eunjong Shin).
Presented paper entitled “Post-strike Effects of Labor Conf
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lict on Retail Consumers: Preliminary Evidence from the 1998
Northwest Airlines and General Motors Strikes” at the annual
meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
January 5-7, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia (with Brian Silver).
“Economic Models of International Labor Standards” presented at
symposium entitled Labor Rights in a Free World: Paradigm or
Paradox, Michigan State University Detroit College of Law
February 27-28, 2002
Presented paper entitled, “Collective Bargaining in the
Automobile Industry, 1980-2000: the Case of Michigan,” at
triennial North American Congress of International Industrial
Relations Association and the annual Conference of the Canadian
Industrial Relations Association, Toronto, Ontario, June 25-28,
2002 (with Dale Belman).
Presented paper entitled “Do Labor Standards Matter: The
Economic Impact of Differences in Labor Standards Across States
in the United States and Provinces in Canada,” at The CanadaUnited States Business Conference, Kelley School of Business,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 11-12, 2003
(with Karen Roberts).
Presented paper entitled “Comparing and Quantifying Labor
Standards in the United States and the European Union, at the
International Congress of the International Industrial Relations
Association, Berlin, Germany, September 10, 2004 (with Peter Berg
and Karen Roberts).
Presentation entitled “Global Manufacturing and Collective
Bargaining: A Case Study of GM’s United States Lansing Grand
River Assembly” at Voice and Value Conference, London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, March
12, 2004.
Presented paper entitled “Indicators of Labor Standards: An
Overview and Comparison,” at International Labour Organization
Staff Seminar on Qualitative Indicators and Their Applications,”
International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland,
September 14-15, 2004.
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
"The Impact of Union-Negotiated Employment Security Provisions
on the Manufacturing Quit Rate," Proceedings of the 29th Annual
Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
Atlantic City, NJ, September 16-19, 1976, pp. 265-73.
"An Interindustry Analysis of Bargaining Outcomes: Preliminary
Evidence from Two-Digit Industries," The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, Vol. 91, No. 3, August, 1977, pp. 431-52 (with Thomas
A. Kochan).
"Legal and Traditional Criteria in the Arbitration of Sex
Discrimination Grievances," Arbitration Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4,
December 1977, pp. 241-55.
"The Impact of Seniority Provisions on the Manufacturing Quit
Rate," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol.31, No.
4, July, 1978, pp. 474-88.
"Job Changing and Union-Negotiated Nonwage Provisions,"
Industrial Relations, Vol. 17, No. 3, October, 1978, pp. 296307.
"Unionism in the Health Care Industry: An Overview," The Journal
of Health and Human Resources Administration, Vol.2, No. 1,
August, 1979, pp. 49-58.
"Union Decision-Making and the Supply of Union Services: A
Preliminary Analysis," Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of
the Industrial Relations Research Association, Atlanta, Ga.,
December 28-30, 1979 (with D. Saks).
"The NLRB and Alternative Situs Picketing: The Search for the
Elusive Standard," Industrial Relations Law Journal, Vol. 3, No.
4, Winter, 1979, pp. 643-70 (with B.W. Wolkinson and D.E.
Mitchell).
"Union Organizing and the Allocation of Union Resources,"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, October,
1980, pp. 101-113.
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"Case Processing Time and the Outcomes of Representation
Elections: Some Empirical Evidence," University of Illinois Law
Review, Vol. 1981, No. 1, pp. 75-97 (with Myron Roomkin).
"Summary and Conclusions," in U.S. Industrial Relations 19501980: A Critical Assessment, Jack Stieber, Robert B. McKersie,
and D. Quinn Mills, eds. (Madison, Wis: Industrial Relations
Research Association, 1981), pp. 343-61 (with Jack Stieber).
"A Preliminary Analysis of the Participation Rate and the Margin
of Victory in NLRB Elections," Proceedings of the 34th Annual
Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association,
Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1981, pp. 220-26 (with Myron
Roomkin); excerpted as "Determinants of Voter Participation in
Union Certification Elections," Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 105,
No. 4, April, 1982, pp. 45-47.
"The Legal Environment as a Challenge to Unions," Proceedings
of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, New York, N.Y., December 28-30, 1982, pp. 22-29
(with Myron Roomkin); excerpted as "Regulatory System
Encourages Employers to Take the Offensive," Monthly Labor
Review, Vol.
106, No. 4, April, 1983, pp. 25-26.
"Employer Attitudes Toward Discharged Workers," Proceedings of
the 6th World Congress, International Industrial Relations
Association, Kyoto, Japan, March 28-31, 1983, pp. 2-22 (with
Jack Stieber).
"The Unionization Process: A Review of the Literature," in
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, David B. Lipsky and
Joel M. Douglas, eds., Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1983, pp.
31-70 (with S. Premack).
"How Representative are Published Arbitration Decisions?" in
Arbitration 1984: Absenteeism, Recent Law, Panels, and Published
Decisions/Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the National
Academy of Arbitrators, Chicago, Ill., May 22-25, 1984
(Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1985), pp.
172-191 (with Jack Stieber and Leslie F. Corbitt).
"Labor Law and Fundamental Issues in Unionism: A Research
Agenda," Industrial Relations Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1985),
pp. 356-61.
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"Structural Change and Industrial Relations in the United
States' Manufacturing and Transportation Sectors: 1973-1983," in
The Response of Industrial Relations to Economic Change, Hervey
Juris, Mark Thompson, and Wilbur Daniels, eds. (Madison, Wis.:
Industrial Relations Research Association, 1985), pp. 337-82
(with Kenneth McLennan).
"Delay and the Union Election Campaign Revisited: A Theoretical
and Empirical Analysis," in Advances in Industrial and Labor
Relations, Vol. III, David Lewin and David B. Lipsky, eds.
(Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1986), pp. 43-82 (with Benjamin W.
Wolkinson).
"The Impact of Employment-at-Will Judicial Decisions on the
Outcomes of NLRB Representation Elections," Proceedings
of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 28-30, 1986 (with
C. Mahoney and L. Corbitt).
"The Impact of Attorneys and Arbitrators on Arbitration Awards,"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 40, No. 4 (July,
1987), pp. 543-55 (with Jack Stieber).
"Industrial Relations and the Performance of the Firm," in Human
Resources and the Performance of the Firm, Morris M. Kleiner,
Richard N. Block, Myron Roomkin and Sidney Salsburg, eds.
Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Madison,
Wis.: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1987, pp. 31943 (with Morris M. Kleiner, Myron Roomkin, and Sidney Salsburg).
"Some Are More Equal Than Others: The Relative
Employers, Unions, and Employees in the Law of
Organizing," Industrial Relations Law Journal,
(1988), pp. 220-40 (with Benjamin W. Wolkinson
Status of
Union
Vol. 10, No.2
and James Kuhn).
"The Propriety of the Employer Serving as Social Arbiter,"
Proceedings of the 1988 National Conference of the Council on
Employee Responsibilities and Rights, Virginia Beach, Virginia,
October 13-14, 1988, pp. 317-23 (with Ellen Ernst Kossek).
"Industrial Relations Innovations in the Smaller Firm," Modern
Michigan, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, 1989, pp. 12-14 (with
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J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, D. Gash, E. Kossek, M. Moore, P. McHugh,
and A. Gilles).
"Impediments to Innovative Employee Relations Arrangements," in
Investing in People: A Strategy to Address America's Workforce
Crisis, U.S. Department of Labor, Commission on Workforce
Quality and Labor Market Efficiency, September, 1989, pp. 20032056 (with B.W. Wolkinson).
"American Industrial Relations in the 1980's: Transformation or
Evolution?" in Reflections on the Transformation of Industrial
Relations, Institute of Management and Labor Relations Series,
No. 1, James Chelius and James Dworkin, eds., Metuchen,
N.J.:IMLR Press/Rutgers University, 1990, pp. 19-48.
"Elapsed Time in Grievance Arbitration," Proceedings of the 43rd
Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators, May, 1990
(with J. Stieber and V. Nichol).
"Redressing the Imbalance in the Law of Union Representation:
The Principle of Workplace Neutrality," Industrial Relations
Research Association Series, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1990, pp. 145-53.
"Discussion: Research Expectations in IR and HR Units: Views of
Internal and External Constituencies," Industrial Relations
Research Association Series, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1990, pp. 510-12.
"Comment: Research on Labor Law in the 1990s: The Challenge of
Defining a Representational Form," in Harry C. Katz, ed. The
Future of Industrial Relations: Proceedings of the Second
Bargaining Group Conference,, Ithaca, New York, Cornell
University, 1991, pp. 139-44.
"Comment on Alan B. Krueger, "The Evolution of Unjust-Dismissal
Legislation in the United States" Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, Vol. 45, No. 4 (July 1992), pp. 792-95 (with Jack
Stieber).
"The Legal and Institutional Framework for Employment Security
in the United States: An Overview," in Employment Security and
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Labor Market Flexibility: An International Perspective,
Kazutoshi Koshiro, ed. (Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University
Press, 1992), pp. 127-48.
"Traditional and Non-Traditional Systems for Resolving Disputes
Under Collective Bargaining," Workplace Topics, Vol. 2, No. 3
(July, 1992), pp. 113-29).
"Employee Participation Plans and the NLRA: Toward Making (Some)
Sense from Electromation, Dialogues, Vol. 1, Issue 1, May, 1993,
pp. 1,3.
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"Are Training Subsidies to Firms Effective? The Michigan
Experience," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 46, No.
4 (July, 1993), pp. 625-36 (with H. Holzer, M. Cheatum. and J.
Knott).
"The Employer as Social Arbiter: Considerations in Limiting
Involvement in Off-the-Job Behavior," Employee Rights and
Responsibilities Journal, Vol.6, No. 2 (1993), pp. 139-55 (with
E. Kossek).
"Reforming U.S. Labor Law and Collective Bargaining: Some
Proposals Based on the Canadian Industrial Relations System," in
Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law, S. Friedman, R.
Hurd, R. Oswald, and R. Seeber, eds., (Ithaca, NY, ILR Press,
1994), pp. 250-59.
"Labor Law, Economics, and Industrial Democracy: A
Reconciliation," Industrial Relations, Vol. 34, No. 3 (July,
1995), pp. 402-16.
"Labor Relations Policy and Adjustments to Competition in Canada
and the United States," Policy Options/Options Politiques,
October, 1995.
"Grievance Mediation in Manufacturing: A Case Study" Dispute
Resolution Journal, October, 1996, pp. 54-60 (with J. Beck and
A.R. Olson)
"NAFTA, Collective Bargaining, and Employment Adjustments in the
United States and Canada: Implications for Michigan," in Policy
Choices, K. Roberts and M. Wilson, eds., East Lansing, MSU
Press, 1996, pp. 217-34.
“Rethinking the National Labor Relations Act and Zero-Sum Labor
Law: An Industrial Relations View,” Berkeley Journal of
Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1997, pp. 30-55.
"Collective Bargaining and the Courts: An Empirical Analysis of
Judicial Review of NRLB Decision and Arbitration Awards,"
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the National Center
for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and
the Professions, Baruch College, New York, New York, April,
1997, pp. 176-91.
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"An Overview of Labor Standards in the United States and
Canada," Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Industrial
Relations Research Association, Vol. 2, January 3-5, 1998, pp.
1127-34 (with Karen Roberts), reprinted in Labor Law Journal,
Vol. 49, No. 7, September, 1998.
"Ranking Labor Standards Across Countries: A Case Study of the
United States and Canada," Proceedings of the 11th World Congress
of the International Industrial Relations Association, Bologna,
Italy, September 22-26, 1998, pp. 99-103 (with K. Roberts).
"Reforming Labor Law," USA Today, Vol. 127, No. 2646, March,
1999, pp. 54-57.
“New Employment Relations: Challenges and Basic Assumptions,” in
Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts
to Strategic Choice, Ellen Ernst Kossek and Richard N. Block,
eds., Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Publishing, 2000,pp. 1-1
to 1-33.
“Collective Bargaining, Industrial Relations, and Human Resource
Systems: Managing in Environments,” in Managing Human Resources
in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice,
Ellen Ernst Kossek and Richard N. Block, eds., Cincinnati, Ohio:
South-Western Publishing, 2000, pp. 6-1 to 6-21.
“A Comparison of Labour Standards in the United States and
Canada,” Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 55,
No. 2, pp. 273-306 (with K. Roberts).
“Models of International Labor Standards,” Industrial Relations,
Vol. 40, No. 2, April, 2001, pp. 258-92 (with K. Roberts, C.
Ozeki, and M. Roomkin).
“Collective Bargaining, Competitiveness And Employment In The
United States,” Transfer: European Review of Labour and
Research, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter, 2001, pp. 697-715
"The Korean Industrial Relations System: From Post-Independence
to Post-IMF," in Transforming Korean Business and Management
Culture, Eunmi Chang, ed., Elizabeth,NJ and Seoul, Hollym, 2002,
pp. 309-44 (with JeongHyun Lee and Eunjong Shin).
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“Post-strike Effects of Labor Conf
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lict on Retail Consumers: Preliminary Evidence from the 1998
Northwest Airlines and General Motors Strikes” Proceedings of
the 54th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, January 4-6, 2002, Paula B. Voos, ed., 2002, pp.
58-67(with Brian Silver).
“Economic Perspectives on International Labor Standards,”
Michigan State University Detroit College of Law Journal of
International Law, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Fall, 2002, pp. 417-26
(with Karen Roberts and Russell Ormiston).
“Collective Bargaining in Context,” in Bargaining for
Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N.
Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for
Employment Research, 2003, pp. 3-12 (with Peter Berg).
“Competitiveness and Employment Protection and Creation: An
Overview of Collective Bargaining in the United States,” in
Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies,
Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn
Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 13-44.
“The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Competitiveness and
Employment,” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research,
and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan,
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 4574(with Dale Belman).
“Basic Aluminum” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law,
Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo,
Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003,
pp. 87-100.
“Auto Assembly,” Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research,
and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed. Kalamazoo, Michigan,
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 101-16
(with Peter Berg).
“Automobile Parts” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law,
Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo,
Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003,
pp. 118-32(with Michael L. Moore).
“Overview and Conclusions” in Bargaining for Competitiveness:
Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed.,
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment
Research, 2003, pp. 151-60.
“Automotive and Other Manufacturing Industries in Michigan:
Output, Employment, Earnings, and Collective Bargaining, 19802001,” in Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark Analysis of
its Fiscal and Economic Structure, C. Ballard, P. Courant, D.
Drake, R. Fisher, and E. Gerber, eds., East Lansing, MI:
Michigan State University Press, 2003, pp. 145-68 (with Dale
Belman).
“Comparing and Quantifying Labor Standards in the United States
and the European Union,” International Journal of Comparative
Labor Law and Industrial Relations, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter,
2003, pp. 441-67(with Peter Berg and Karen Roberts).
“The Economic Dimension of the Employment Relationship,” in The
Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual
Perspectives, Jackie Coyle-Shapiro, Lynn Shore, Susan Taylor,
Lois Tetrick eds., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004,
pp. 94-118(with Peter Berg and Dale Belman).
“The Legal and Administrative Context of Work and Family Leaves
and Related Policies in the United States, Canada, and the
European Union,” in Managing the Work-Home Interface: A
Psychological Perspective, Fiona Jones, Ronald Burke and Mina
Westman, eds., London: Routledge Press, forthcoming (with Martin
Malin, Ellen Kossek, and Angela Holt).
“The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)” in Encyclopedia of
Career Development, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus and Gerard A Callanan,
eds., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“Indicators Of Labour Standards: An Overview And Comparison,” in
Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators of Labour Standards
(title tentative), David Kucera and Peter Peek, eds., Springer,
Social Indicators Research Series, forthcoming.
“Industrial Relations in the United States and Canada,” in
Global Industrial Relations, Michael Morley, Patrick Gunnigle,
and David G. Collings, eds., London: Routledge, forthcoming.
“An Introduction to the Current State of Workers’ Rights,” in
Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective
Bargaining in the United States, Richard N. Block, with Sheldon
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Friedman, Andy Levin, and Michelle Kaminski, eds., Kalamazoo,
MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, forthcoming
(with Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and Andy Levin).
BOOKS:
The Collective Bargaining Process: Readings and Analysis, Plano,
TX: Business Publications, Inc., 1983 (edited with Jean
Baderschneider and John Fossum).
Industrial Relations and Firm Performance, Industrial Relations
Research Association Series, Madison, Wis.: Industrial Relations
Research Association, 1987 (edited with M. Kleiner, M. Roomkin,
and S. Salsburg).
Employment Law: The Workplace Rights of Employees and Employers,
Oxford, United Kingdom, Blackwell Publishers, 1996 (with B. W.
Wolkinson).
Labor Law, Industrial Relations, and Employee Choice, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1996
(with J. Beck and D.H. Kruger)
Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts
to Strategic Choice, Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Publishing,
2000(edited with Ellen Ernst Kossek).
Labor Standards in the United States and Canada, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003
(with K. Roberts and R.O. Clarke).
Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment
Research, 2003 (edited).
Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective
Bargaining in the United States, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn
Institute for Employment Research, forthcoming (edited with S.
Friedman, A. Levin, and M. Kaminski).
BOOK REVIEWS:
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Review of Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion by Robert
J. Flanagan, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 43, No.
1 (October 1989), pp. 140-41.
Review of The Management of Collective Bargaining: An
International Comparison by Keith Sisson, Journal of Economic
Literature, Vol. 28, No. 1, March, 1990, pp. 114-16.
Review of International Trade, Investment and Competitiveness:
Trade Union Strategies in a Global Economy by the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions - Asian and Pacific Regional
Organization, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Volume,
19, No. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. 343-46.
RESEARCH REPORTS:
Labor Mobility Between Low and High Wage Sectors of American
Industry, 1959-63, Report to the Office of Research and
Statistics, Social Security Administration, U.S. Department
of Health, Education and Welfare, June 16, 1975 (with George H.
Hildebrand)
The Impact of Union-Negotiated Job Security Provisions on Labor
Turnover and Labor Mobility, Final Report to the Employment and
Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, March
1977.
Discharged Workers and the Labor Market: An Analysis of Employer
Attitudes and Experience, and of Arbitration Decisions,
Final Report to the Employment and Training Administration, U.S
Department of Labor, July, 1983 (with Jack Stieber).
The Personnel and Human Resources Practices of Japanese Firms in
Michigan, Prepared for the Bureau of Business Research, Michigan
Department of Commerce, July, 1987 (with Takashi Inaba and
Michael L. Moore).
Labor-Management Innovations in Small Firms, prepared for the
Labor-Management Partnership Project, Michigan Departments of
Commerce and Labor, December, 1989 (with J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
D. Gash, E. Kossek, M. Moore, P. McHugh, and A. Gilles).
Innovative Labor-Management Practices in Small Firms, Bureau of
Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs, U.S.
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Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Management Relations and
Cooperative Programs, August, 1990, (with J. Cutcher-
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Gershenfeld, D. Gash, E. Kossek, M. Moore, P. McHugh, and A.
Gilles)
An Analysis of the Michigan MJOB Upgrade Training Grants
Program, 1987 - 1989, Michigan Departments of Commerce and
Labor, November, 1991 (with J. Knott, H. Holzer, and M. Cheatum)
The Relationship Between Pay Rates for State of Michigan
Employees and Pay Rates for Other Employees in Michigan for
Selected Occupations: A Study Based on Public Information, State
of Michigan, Office of the State Employer, October, 1992 (with
E. Montemayor, S. Gleason, and T. Curry).
Report to Mead Publishing Paper Company (Escanaba, Michigan)
and United Paperworkers International Union Local 21 on
Grievance Mediation at Mead-Escanaba for Period January 1, 1991
- December 31, 1993, January 31, 1994 (with J. Beck and A.R.
Olson).
An Analysis of Labor Standards in the United States and Canada,
to the International Center for Canadian-American Trade, June,
1997 and to the Canadian Embassy in the United States, February,
1998(with K. Roberts).
The Relationship among Collective Bargaining, Competitiveness,
and Employment Security and Job Creation in the United States,
to the International Labor Organization, November, 1999 (with P.
Berg, M. Moore, and M. Polzin).
Labour Standards In The Canadian Federal Jurisdiction: A
Comparison With Canadian Provinces And Territories, States In
The United States, And Selected European Nations, submitted to
the Federal Labor Standards Review, Ottawa, Ontario, November,
2005.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT:
Collective Bargaining
Trade Union Structure and Administration
Law of Labor-Management Relations/Labor Law
Seminars on Trade Union Growth and Collective Bargaining
Seminar on U.S. - Canada Industrial Relations
Conceptual Foundations of Business
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RESEARCH GRANTS/CONTRACTS:
Canadian Federal Labour Standards Review, Labour Standards In
The Canadian Federal Jurisdiction: A Comparison With Canadian
Provinces And Territories, States In The United States, And
Selected European Nations, June 1, 2005 – December 31, 2005.
Employee Misclassification in the Michigan Construction
Industry, Institute for Public Policy and Social Research,
Michigan State University, October 1, 2005 – September 30, 2006
(with Dale Belman).
Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Employment, Labor,
and Manufacturing in Michigan: A Project on Marketing Michigan’s
Labor/Management Strengths, September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2005.
General Motors Corporation and Michigan State University VicePresident for Research and Graduate Studies, Learning from
Lansing Grand River Assembly, October 2003 – October 2006.
Alcoa Foundation, Teaching Employment Systems, October 1, 2001 December 31, 2003.
Canadian Embassy in the United States, The Impact of Labor
Standards on the Level and Structure of Economic Activity in the
United States and Canada, January, 2001 - February, 2002,
International Labor Organization, The Relationship Between
Collective Bargaining, Competitiveness, and Employment
Protection and Creation, November, 1998 - June, 1999.
International Center for Canadian-American Trade, The
Relationship Between Labor Standards and Trade Flows in the
United States and Canada, March, 1998 - March, 1999 (with K.
Roberts).
Canadian Embassy in the United States, Labor Standards in the
United States and Canada, February, 1997 - January,1998 (with K.
Roberts).
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, An Analysis of
Labor Standards in the United States and Canada, November 1,
1997 - October 31, 1998 (with K. Roberts).
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International Center for the Study of Canadian-American Trade,
Labor Standards in the United States and Canada, December, 1995July, 1996; January 1997 - October, 1997, April, 1998- March,
1999 (with K. Roberts)
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Analysis of the
Hearings on the U.S. Commission on the Future of WorkerManagement Relations, May, 1994 - April, 1995 (with J. Beck and
D. Kruger)
State of Michigan, Office of the State Employer, State Employee
Public Data Wage Study, September, 1992 - February, 1993 (with
E. Montemayor, S. Gleason, and T. Curry).
UAW-GM Human Resource Center, An Analysis of the UAW-GM
Placement and Training Program, February, 1990 - December, 1991
(with J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, S. Gleason, D. Ilgen, M. Lindell.,
I. Bluestone, and K. Roberts)
State of Michigan, Departments of Commerce and Labor,
Understanding the Scope and Implications of Private and StateSupported Employer-Specific Training Initiatives in Michigan,
September, 1989 - September, 1990 (with Joel CutcherGershenfeld, Kevin Ford, and Jack Knott)
International Business Machines Corporation, Research on the
Impact of PS/2 Technology on the Teaching and Practice of Human
Resource Management and on Negotiations, September, 1988 August, 1991 (with Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Debra Gash, Ellen
Ernst Kossek, and Michael L. Moore)
U.S. Department of Labor, Commission on Workforce Quality and
Labor Market Efficiency, Legal Barriers to Innovative LaborManagement Relationships, January, 1989 - June, 1989 (with
Benjamin W. Wolkinson).
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Management Relations
and Cooperative Programs, Case Studies of Labor-Management
Innovations in Small Firms, September 1989 - December, 1990
(with Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Debra Gash, Ellen Kossek, and
Michael Moore).
State of Michigan Labor-Management Partnership Project, Michigan
Departments of Commerce and Labor, Design of A Labor-Management
Assistance System for Small Firms and Unions, February, 1988
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- March 1989 (with David Pincus)
State of Michigan Labor-Management Partnership Project, Michigan
Departments of Commerce and Labor, Case Studies of LaborManagement Innovation in Small Firms, April, 1988 - March 1989
(with Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Debra Gash, Ellen Kossek, and
Michael L. Moore)
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Discharged Workers and the Labor Market: An
Analysis of Employer Attitudes and Experience, and of
Arbitration Decisions, March 1981 - July 1983 (with Jack
Stieber).
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, The Impact of Union-Negotiated Job Security
Provisions on Labor Turnover and Labor Mobility, March, 1976 February, 1977
OTHER GRANTS/CONTRACTS:
Alcoa Foundation, Overseas Faculty Residences in Industrial
Relations/Human Resources, September 1999-September, 2000.
Alcoa Foundation, Incorporating Global Diversity in a Graduate
Industrial Relations/Human Resources Curriculum, September 1998
- September 2000 (with K. Corey, L. Bierema, and T. Riley.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Referee, Academy of Management Journal
Referee, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Referee, Industrial Relations
Referee, Journal of Organizational Behavior
Reviewer, National Science Foundation
Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada
Board of Directors, Industrial Relations Council on GOALS
(Graduate Industrial Relations Program minority recruitment
consortium), 1985;Co-Chair, 1987-89, Chair, 1989-93.
Research Advisory Committee, Bureau of Workers' Compensation,
Michigan Department of Labor, 1989-90)
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Industrial Relations Association Executive Board, 1990-93.
Industrial Relations Association Committee on Excellence in
Teaching Awards, 2000-present.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS:
Little, Brown, and Co.
MacMillan Publishing Co.
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Reston Publishing Co.
Scott Foresman and Co.
West Publishing Co.
John Wiley and Sons
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell
University
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE AND, SCHOOL SERVICE:
Committee on Integrative Studies, College of Social Science,
March 1, 2005 – May 15, 2005
Search and Advisory Committee for Dean of the College of Social
Science, 1999-2000
Task Force on Quality and Priorities of
Ad Hoc University Committee to Review
Research and Graduate Education, 1992-93
University Graduate Council (1993-97), Chair (1995-96); Chair,
Curriculum Subcommittee (1994-94, 1997-97)
Academic Council, Executive Committee of Academic Council
College of Social Science, Committee on Curriculum and Academic
Policies, Graduate Committee
College of Social Science Graduate Committee
College of Social Science Faculty Advisory Council
College of Social Science Ad Hoc Committee to Review Graduate
Education
Search and Advisory Committee for Dean of the College of Social
Science, 1999-2000
School of Labor and Industrial Relations, numerous committees
PERSONAL: Born: September 13, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA;
Married, Two children