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Conversations on Community Benefits
Join Community Leaders, including our own Dr. Tina Riley, to discuss Community Benefits and how they can be applied in communities to foster equitable-community-based economic development.
January 15, 2025
9:00am - 2:00pm ET
Hannah Community Center
East Lansing, MI
Session Highlights
- Session 1: What are Community Benefits?
- Session 2: Why do community Benefits Matter?
- Lunch Keynote: Terrell Knight - Cleveland Community Benefits Ordinance Overview
- Session 3: Community Benefits and the Way Forward
Marquis Who's Who Honors William N. Cooke, PhD, for Expertise in Labor-Management Relations and Human Resource Strategy
Recognized as an expert in union-management relations and human resource strategies, Dr. Bill Cooke has consulted for a multitude of organizations and their unions in negotiations and building high-performance workplace systems. He has also been recognized through numerous publications and journal articles in economics and numerous citations.
HRLR Students Excel at Penn State Case Competition on Artificial Intelligence and HRM
MSU’s MHRLR students recently participated in the prestigious Penn State Case Competition, where they garnered top honors in a challenge focused on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and HRM.
MSU Labor Expert on Strikes and Last Year's Big 3 Walk Out
WKAR's Melorie Begay spoke with Maite Tapia, an associate professor at Michigan State University’s school of Human Resources and Labor Relations, to learn more about strikes, including last year's Big 3 UAW walk out.
SHRLR Undergraduate Program Renamed from Human Capital and Society to Bachelor of Human Resources and Labor Relations
We are excited to announce that, effective Fall 2024, our undergraduate major has been officially renamed Human Resources & Labor Relations. Formerly known as Human Capital and Society, this new major name better aligns with the program's focus on the people side of business, preparing students for a wide range of professional careers in fields such as business, government, healthcare, education, labor organizations, and non-profits.
Dr. Jason Huang Appointed Director of Michigan State's School of Human Resources & Labor Relations
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Huang, PhD, to the role of Director of the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations (SHRLR). Dr. Huang assumes the Director role in August 2024 after serving as Associate Director for Graduate Programs for the past four years and as a faculty member in the School since 2015.
MSU Future of Work Initiative Brings Together Spartan Faculty and Students from Across the Country for Summer Research Incubator
The Future of Work Initiative hosted a Summer Research Incubator, bringing Graduate and Doctoral students from across the globe to work with our world-class faculty. Photo credit: Jacqueline Hawthorne, MSU.
The MSU Future of Work (FOW) Initiative hosted graduate and doctoral students from across the country for its first-ever Summer Research Incubator, giving them the opportunity to collaborate, share ideas with and learn from MSU's world-class faculty and researchers.
Housed within the College of Social Science but spanning across multiple disciplines on campus, the Future of Work Initiative seeks to assess how new and emerging technologies affect a wide variety of groups and outcomes and evaluate how organizational strategies can best ensure inclusiveness and improve workers' lives.
Full Story: https://socialscience.msu.edu/news-events/news/2024-08-06.html
Close Up Radio Spotlights Educator and Author William Cooke
Unabated and unforgiving global competition continues to take its toll on companies and their employees—forcing organizations to rethink their workplace strategies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Professor and author William Cooke wants to help companies and their unions build partnerships that optimize long-term success for both their organizations and employees. With over 40 years of experience as an educator, consulting with more than 35 different organizations, Professor Cooke recently co-published Negotiating High Performance-Focused Partnerships: The Five Stages of Effective Labor Management Negotiations.
Listen to the interview: Close Up Radio Spotlights Educator and Author William N. Cooke 08/21 by Close Up Radio | Books (blogtalkradio.com)
Get your copy of Negotiating High Performance-Focused Partnerships: The Five Stages of Effective Labor Management Negotiations: https://a.co/d/cnUJtXR
Congratulations to Dr. Lima Aranzaes!
Congratulations to Dr. Lima Aranzaes who has successfully defended her dissertation on organizing efforts among Amazon workers in the US South and will be joining the faculty at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State University.
Dr. Lima Aranzaes research is primarily focused on collective action, collective voice, leadership, social networks, solidarity, intersectionality, and workers well-being throughout the different stages of the unionization process and collective bargaining that workers must undergo to improve their working conditions and gain or maintain a collective voice. Recently, her work has examined unionization efforts among Amazon workers in the US South, exploring how these dynamics contribute to attempts to establish a collective voice. Her approach utilizes a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to offer a comprehensive analysis of these complex dynamics.
School of HRLR Professor Emeritus Profile: Dr. Michael J. Polzin
Dr. Michael Polzin began working with the School of Labor and Industrial Relations in 1994 to coordinate the Program on Innovative Employment Relations Systems (PIERS), created to foster constructive joint union-management initiatives. With colleagues, he helped develop a model of practice that incorporated elements of continuous quality improvement, principled negotiations, and group facilitation skills, which was applied to multiple public and private sector organizations as well as departments within MSU.
School of Human Resources and Labor Relations PhD candidate Uriel Saldivar receives the College of Social Science Graduate Student Teaching Award
HRLR PhD candidate, Uriel Saldivar.
The Graduate Student Teaching Award recognizes a graduate student who has demonstrated evidence of dedication to instruction through experimentation and successful implementation of innovative techniques and/or contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning, including experiential learning; and evidence of excellence in instruction as demonstrated by the impact on students’ careers and colleagues’ teaching/advising practices.
MSU drives conversation, research on the future of work
Dr. Tara Behrend, director of the Future of Work Initiative, and Dr. Hye Jin Rho discussing the future of work with MSU Today with Russ White.
You have likely heard about ChatGPT, and you might even have the application downloaded on your phone. But have you thought about how technology — and artificial intelligence specifically — will impact your job and the future of work?
Tara Behrend and Hye Jin Rho joined Russ White to discuss how faculty from across MSU colleges and representatives from community organizations came together to collaborate and engage on the future of work.
Social scientists lead the way on future of work research
Dr. Tara Behrend, director of the Future of Work Initiative, organized the conference convening. She opens the conference providing more background on the initiative.
Michigan State University's College of Social Science recently hosted the university's first Future of Work Conference to discuss how technology will impart the future of work.
Jason Huang recognized as 2024 SIOP Fellow
Dr. Jason Huang
Every year, SIOP recognizes members whose research identifies solutions to workplace problems, whose practice changes the course of the field, and whose teaching guides the next generation of I-O psychology. Fellowship is one of the highest honors a member can receive.
Research Methods for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Science and Practice By Richard N. Landers, and Tara S. Behrend now available
Research Methods for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
This important and useful book offers a clear and comprehensive foundation for research methods in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. The text provides readers with a key understanding of the research, theory, and practice needed towards becoming a research methods expert.
Mark Roehling receives Best Conference Paper award at the National Business and Economics Association Conference
Dr. Mark Roehling
Dr. Mark Roehling received the Best Conference Paper award at the National Business and Economics Association Conference in March 2024 for his paper The Role of Recruiting and Selection in Sexual Harassment Prevention: A Conceptual Model, Interdisciplinary Assessment, and Call for Research.
The paper provides the first conceptual model focusing on the role of recruiting and training in sexual harassment prevention, identifies and critically evaluates recruiting and selection practices that may contribute significantly to sexual harassment prevention, and identifies research needs.
Advisor Spotlight - Matt Hahnenberg
Matt Hahnenberg speaking with a prospective HRLR student.
From the Academic Advisor Training and Development - March Newsletter. In this month's highlighted spotlight, we take great pride in acknowledging Matt Hahnenberg. Joining MSU in 2014 as an academic advisor for the Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) major, Matt spoke highly of the training he received from IDS advising staff during that time—Regan Kania, Veda Hawkins, and Nicolas Gisholt. Since 2017, Matt has been a dedicated academic advisor for the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
John Beck recognized for 33 years of service to Michigan State University and over 20 years supporting the Excellence in DEI Awards (EDEIA) program
2024 EDEIA awards program.
For more than 20 years, John Beck has lent his expertise to the EDEIA program, including serving on the selection committee and, per DEI Report and Plan recommendations, was instrumental in the process of expanding the program to an all-university award from 2022 to 2023.
HRLR Professor Jim Dulebohn awarded Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award
The Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award is given to an article published five years prior that has had the greatest impact on the field.
Authored by Julia E. Hoch, William H. Bommer, James H. Dulebohn, and Dongyuan Wu, the paper 'Do Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership Explain Variance Above and Beyond Transformational Leadership? A Meta-Analysis' received the Scholarly Impact Award in August 2023 at the Academy of Management meeting in Boston.
SHRLR Professor James H. Dulebohn has received the Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award for the second time, underscoring his significant contributions to the field. His previous paper, 'A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Leader–Member Exchange: Integrating the Past with an Eye Toward the Future,' was recognized in 2017.
HRLR Associate Professor Mevan Jayasinghe selected best reviewer at the Academy of Management Perspectives
HRLR's Mevan Jayasinghe, PhD was selected best reviewer at the Academy of Management Perspectives, reflecting his exemplary service and dedication to the journal and profession.
HRLR welcomes Dr. Tara S. Behrend, John Richard Butler II Endowed Professor
The School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University is pleased to welcome Dr. Tara S. Behrend, John Richard Butler II Endowed Professor, to our faculty in August 2023. Dr. Behrend is joining us from the Purdue University Department of Psychology. She brings with her an impressive record of scholarly achievements, research, and leadership in the field of industrial and organizational psychology and beyond.
Efforts to Craft Gender-Neutral Job Postings Have Negligible Effects on Gender Equality
Gender segregation remains a significant problem in many occupations and organizations. To solve this problem, many U.S. employers now seek to craft gender-neutral job postings.
Do gender-neutral job descriptions make a difference in applicant behavior? According to new research by MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla and Hye Jin Rho an Assistant Professor at the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University, attempting to make job postings more gender-neutral has negligible practical effects on whether men and women are likely to apply for a job.
HRLR Associate Professor Maite Tapia and HCS Student Abbigail Foss Win Tomlanovich-Dimond Research Equity Award from MSU's Women's Leadership Institute
School of Human Resources and Labor Relations Associate Professor Maite Tapia and Human Capital & Society student Abbigail Foss won the Tomlanovich-Dimond Research Equity Award, awarded by MSU's Women's Leadership Institute, for their research proposal entitled "Fighting for Equity against All Odds: Somali Muslim Women Standing Up against Amazon".
Study Finds Early Childhood Reinforcement May Contribute to Women’s Underrepresentation in STEM Fields
According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), women make up only 28% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). According to a new study from Michigan State University published in the journal American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, one source of this gap may arise in early childhood. The authors argue that women may be more likely to develop an early interest in non-STEM fields.