Research Briefs and Publications

Listed below are selected research briefs and publications from the School of Management and Labor Relations. Please explore these publications and contact us for further information.

Research Briefs

• Brief 1: Is Disability Disabling in all Workplaces?, Lisa Schur, Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi
• Brief 2: A Tale of Two Climates: Diversity Climate from Subordinates’ and Managers’ Perspectives and their Role in Store Unit Sales Performance, Patrick F. McKay, Human Resource Management
• Brief 3: Women’s Lives and Poverty: Developing a Framework and Real Reform for Welfare, Mary Gatta, Center for Women and Work, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations
• Brief 4: Local Union Leaders’ Conception and Ideology of Stewards’ Roles, Tracy F. H. Chang, Director, Labor Extension Program
• Brief 5: Is My Company Looking Out for Me?, David Lepak, Chair, Human Resource Management
• Brief 6: Globalizing Union Organizing for the 21st Century, Tracy F.H. Chang, Director, Labor Extension Program
• Brief 7: Card Check Vs. NLRB Elections: Stock Market and First Contract Effects, Adrienne E. Eaton,Chair, and Paula B. Voos, Director, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
• Brief 8: Beyond the Numbers: When Diversity is Not Enough, Niki Dickerson von Lockette, Douglas L. Kruse, Lisa A. Schur, Joseph R. Blasi
• Brief 9: Occupational and Residential Segregration:The Confluence of Two Systems of Inequality, Niki Dickerson von Lockette

Publications

• Will They Return?, The willingness of potential faculty to return to India and the key factors affecting their decisions, B. Venkatesh Kumar, David L. Finegold, Anne-Laure Winkler.
• The State of NJ Labor, Tracy F.H. Chang and Jeffrey H. Keefe
• Creating Union-Management Partnerships to Improve Public School Systems, Professor Saul Rubinstein and John McCarthy

Policy Statements

• Encourage middle-class wealth creation/fairness in economic stimulus package, Joseph Blasi and Doug Kruse