Mohammad Ali
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William Castellano
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Saba Colakoglu
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Niclas Erhardt
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Erika E. Harden
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Ying Hong
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Andrea Kim
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Debra Lancaster
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Boniface Michael
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Visiting Ph.D.: Weiguo Rao
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Mohammad A. Ali is a first year doctoral student. He is interested in globalization and its effects on international comparative industrial relations. At the moment he is doing research on the role of ILO, international unions, and other organizations on the seafarers’ industry. His other interests include Stakeholder Approach and its application to Industrial Relations. Ali holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, and a Masters degree in Political Science from Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. He also has a Masters degree in Human Resource and Labor Relations from the University of Rhode Island. Ali also has 7 years work experience in the Pakistani Civil Bureaucracy, where he has held supervisory and administrative posts in the Ministries of Tourism & Culture, Aviation, and Housing.

:Bill Castellano is a third-year doctoral student at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.  His research interests include the strategic management of contract human capital, business alliances, and outsourcing arrangements; knowledge/talent management; and aligning business and human resource strategies to enhance organizational effectiveness.  Bill has over twenty years of experience working in corporate, entrepreneurial and research environments.  He was a Managing Partner at an executive search firm and Chief Marketing Officer at a national HR outsourcing firm where he conducted extensive research in workforce and talent management strategies.  Bill also held an array of senior HR management positions at Fortune 50 companies where he was involved in developing human resource strategies and practices that supported both individual business groups and the global enterprise.  Bill received his MS degree in Human Resource Management from Rutgers University and his BBA degree in Management from Pace University.  He is a member of the Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Yunhyung (Yun) Chung is a fourth-year doctoral student. Her research focuses on social capital/social networks, diversity, intra-/inter-team relations, training and development, and strategic HR. In particular, she is interested in the impact of diversity on social capital and team performance and the relationship between HR practices and social capital. Currently, she is working on her dissertation entitled, "An investigation of the black box: The impact of team diversity on performance through balancing internal and external social capital". Yun holds a B.S. degree in International Trade and a M.S. degree in Economics.

Saba Colakoglui Saba Colakoglu is a fourth year doctoral student. Her primary research and teaching interests are managing human resources in multinational corporations and strategic human resource management. Saba’s work is featured in International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, and Human Resource Management Journal.  She also has co-authored several book chapters on strategic human resource management.

Niclas Erhardt Niclas has a broad research interest at multiple levels including knowledge management, team effectiveness, workplace diversity, cross-cultural management, HRM and outsourcing and intra- and inter-firm collaboration. His dissertation focuses on knowledge work and the interplay between virtual and face-to-face interaction and their relationship with performance in teams.

Niclas holds a BS degree from the School of ILR at Cornell University and a MS degree in IR from Iowa State University.

Xuguang (Steve) Guo is a fourth-year doctoral student. His research and teaching interests include employee benefits, social insurance, and compensation. His specific research focuses on health insurance and workers' compensation. Steve finished his master's thesis on the determinants and adequacy of workers' compensation in the United States. And he is writing his dissertation on the viability of employer-provided health insurance system in the U.S., using several confidential data sets that have been made available to him by the Bureau of Census. Steve holds a B.S. degree from Shanghai Maritime University and a M.S. degree from School of Management and Labor Relations of Rutgers University. Prior to coming to Rutgers University, he worked as an HR manager at the headquarters of China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) for 6 years.

Erika Harden is a fourth-year doctoral student. Her research interests include the areas of strategic human resource management (HRM), HRM and its impact on organizational innovations, and the interaction between HRM and leadership. Erika holds a B.S. degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College and a M.A. degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from University of Colorado at Denver. Prior to coming to Rutgers University, she worked at two consulting firms, designing and implementing training programs, performance evaluations, and organizational assessments.

Yuan Jiang is a forth-year doctoral student. He has broad research interests in organizational behavior and strategic human resource management. Currently he is working on his dissertation, which focuses on the effect of leadership behavior on team knowledge sharing and outcomes in knowledge intensive settings. His other interests include workforce diversity, leader member exchange, and cross-cultural issues. Yuan holds a Bachelor's degree in International Trade and a Master's degree in Economics, both from Sun Yat-Sen University in China. Before joining the IRHR program, he was a lecturer at Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-Sen University.

Andrea Kim is a first year doctoral student. His research interests broadly include human resource management (HRM) and human resource development (HRD). Specifically, he is interested in strategic HRM, the effectiveness of HRM, and team composition. As well, he is trying to figure out the linkage between HRM and HRD. Prior to Ph.D. study, he worked for several years as a consultant, researcher, and training specialist in Korea. He holds a B.B.A. degree from Department of Business Administration at Korea Aerospace University and a M.B.A. degree (HRM and OB) from College of Business Administration at Seoul National University.

Mee Sook Kim is a first-year doctoral student at Rutgers University. Her research interest includes strategic human resource management, staffing, compensation, self- and group efficacy, and group dynamics. Particularly, she is interested in contextual impacts on individual perception of efficacy, justice, and compensation. She holds her B.A. degree  in art history and business administration from Seoul National University. She recently completed her Master’s thesis, “the interactive effect between self- and group efficacy on individual performance and job attitude” from Seoul National University.

Debra Lancaster is a first-year doctoral student.  Her research interests center on the role work context plays in the quality of work life and quality of service in the direct care work industries including healthcare and child care. She is also interested in the roles and impact that collective forms of employee or occupational representation have on the workplace, lives of workers, and in the advocacy arena in these industries.   Debra has over nine years of experience leading an occupational safety and health training and education consortium, and has worked as a union organizer.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Rutgers University.  Debra is currently a research analyst with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Boniface Michael is a fourth-year doctoral candidate and is also conducting research at the Center for Workplace Transformation. His dissertation is about the changing nature of values and the process for instituting this change in firms that are rebuilding collaborative capabilities between employees and senior management. He is also conducting research on forms of collaboration, interest-based bargaining, and HR practices for knowledge-based environments. He teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management from two ideal type organizational perspectives - bureaucratic and post bureaucratic organizations. Michael holds a B.A. (H) in Economics from Delhi University and a MBA (HRM) from the Fore School of Management, India. Before coming to Rutgers, Michael has worked for a number of years as a management consultant and a HR functional head in the consumer durables, services and semiconductor sector.

Rhokeun Park is a fifth-year doctoral student and PhD candidate. He has interests in employee participation and strategic HRM. The topic of his Master's thesis was employee ownership and firm survival; it was published in the Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Self-managed Firms, Vol. 8. The topic of his dissertation is the effect of simultaneous participation on employee attitudes, behaviors, human capital, and firm performance. For several years, he worked in a non-profit organization that supports employee buy-outs in bankrupt companies. He holds a B.S. in chemistry.

Weiguo Rao is a visiting Ph.D. student in the School of Management and Labor Relations. He is a Third-year doctoral student in Human Resource Management in Peking University, China. His research interests range from human resource development, public human resource management and diversity management to more micro perspectives such as selection and training motivation. He obtained his Master degree and Bachelor degree in labor economics from Renming Universiry of China.