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Ellen Kossek
Ellen
E.
Kossek,
Professor
Biography:
Ellen Ernst Kossek, a Ph.D. from Yale University, is professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior at Michigan State University’s School of Labor and Industrial Relations with a courtesy appointment in Management. She was elected to the board of governors of the National Academy of Management (2003-2006) and was the division chair of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division. She is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association (2002) and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology (2001) in recognition of her research on employer support of work and family. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Journal of Applied and Behavioral Science and the Human Resource Planning Journal. She has published over 40 referred articles and chapters in major journals or review volumes on work and family/personal life integration, human resource strategies, organizational behavior and new ways of working such as flexible work arrangements. She has written or edited six books, most recently Work and Life Integration (LEA Press, 2006) and the Handbook of Work and Family (LEA Press, 2006). Her new research includes serving as associate director of the Center for Work, Family Health and Stress at Portland State University as part of the Workplace, Family Health and Well-being Network, funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (http://wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/ ). Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she is also starting a new study on flexibility in unionized work groups http://www.worklifeflexibility.msu.edu/ and has just finished another Sloan study on managing professionals in new work forms, a study that examines the careers of professionals who chose to reduce their work hours (http://flex-work.lir.msu.edu/ ). She has worked on organizational issues and consulted to and trained managers in North America, Europe and Asia. She is writing a book called CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age. She has recently given talks on diversity and work life issues to the Conference Board of Europe, and major business schools in Portugal and Spain, and at corporations in Japan and Portugal. Expertise: Dual Earner Families; Diversity and Inclusion; Flexible Work Schedules; Part-time or Reduced Hours Work; Telework and Telecommuting; Paid Family Leave - State; Work-Family Conflict; Work-Family Spillover; Work/life Integration; Globalization and international work-life and diversity issues in global firms; Health, Biodata, and Work-Life Integration |
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