Profile: Charles Heckscher

His research focuses on organization change and its consequences for employees and unions, and on the possibilities for more collaborative and democratic forms of work.

His books have explored the future of the labor movement (The New Unionism), the changing approaches of corporate management (The Post-Bureaucratic Organization, The Firm as a Collaborative Community), the effects of downsizing and restructuring on employee loyalty (White-Collar Blues), and the process of improving stakeholder relations (Agents of Change). He has also written widely on mutual-gains bargaining, employment-rights movements, labor-management partnerships, and workplace participation.

As Director of the Center for Workplace Transformation, he is currently leading two primary research projects: one on the development of stakeholder systems, and a second on the effects of teamwork in acute hospital care.

Before coming to Rutgers, he worked for the Communications Workers’ union and taught Human Resources Management at the Harvard Business School.