Forrest Briscoe is an assistant professor of Management & Organization at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business.  He received his PhD from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University.  Forrest studies change in institutions, organizations and individual careers.  His research related to work and family focuses on change in professional settings, asking how different organizational work structures can (often unintentionally) create flexibility options for practicing professionals.  He also studies the conditions that lead professional workers to decide that they can safely take advantage of career flexibility options offered by organizations.  His dissertation research, which was sponsored by the MIT Workplace Center, examined these issues among practicing physicians.  That work has been published in academic journals including Organization Science and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and in an edited volume from Cambridge University Press titled The White Collar Workplace: New Models for the 21st Century.

Expertise: Organizational Culture Change; Part-time or Reduced Hours Work; Retention/ Recruitment