About Ellen Kossek
Ellen Ernst Kossek is a Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at Michigan State University's Graduate School of Labor & Industrial Relations with joint courtesy appointments in the Management Department. She is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Work-Family Stress and Health that is a virutal center with Portland State University as part of the National Institute of Health Natoinal Worklace Health and Family Network. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University, an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and an A.B. from Mount Holyoke with honors in psychology. She teaches, consults, and conducts research on work/life integration, organizational behavior, organizational change and design, gender and diversity, globalization and multiculturalism, and a wide range of strategic human resource management issues.
Dr. Kossek is the 2008 Sage Scholarship Award Recipient given by the National Academy of Mangement's Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division. This award recognizes a present or past member of the division who has made significant contributions that have advanced our knowledge of Gender and Diversity in Organizations and she was commended for "the rigor, breadth, depth and impact of her accumulated body of work."
Dr. Kossek was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Management (2003-2006) and was the 2002 Division Chair of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the National Academy of Management. She is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association (2002) and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology (2001). She has served on the Wharton Work-Life Roundtable. Her scholarly work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (http:// flex-work.lir.msu.edu/ ) ( http://www.worklifeflexibility.msu.edu), the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety and the National Institute of Child and Health Development http://wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/, the Gerber Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; State of Michigan Department of Commerce, Family Independence Agency, & Research Excellence Funds; Center for Creative Leadership, and many private employers. Recently, she has been invited to present her work to scholars at the International Work Psychology confernece as keynote in Sheffield University, UK, managers at the Kings College HR Learning Board in London, England; IESE International Work and Family Conference keynote, Best Work-Family Employer in Portugal keynote, Penn State Work Family Sympoisum keynote, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Conference Boards of Europe and the U.S., the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy, the National Institute of Health in Wash., D.C., American University Roundtable, the Society of HRM for New Hampshire, the SIOP Leading Edge Practitioners' Forum, and the Rutgers Diversity Roundtable. She is a member of the Teaching Resources Board of the Boston College work-family network www.bc.edu/wfnetwork and a founding co-editor of on line Work-Family Encyclopedia, both supported by the Sloan Foundation.
She has authored 8 books: CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age,: Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice (2000,Southwestern), Managing Diversity: Human Resource Strategies for Transforming the Workplace (1996, Blackwell), Child Care Challenges for Employers (1991, LRP), and The Acceptance of Human Resource Innovation: Lessons for Managers (1989, Quorum). She recently edited two books on work and family: Work And Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural and Psychological Perspectives (with S. Lambert) and The Handbook Of Work-Family: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives, Methods, and Approaches (with Pitt-Catsouphes and Sweet). Both edited books are published with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) Press. She has published over 45 articles in refereed journals and book chapters. Several of these papers have been nominated for or won Best Paper of the year awards. She currently serves as a consulting editor or board member of The Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Learning and Management Education, and Human Resource Management Journal. She previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, the Human Resource Planning Journal, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
She has taught mangers from Japan, Korea, the U.K., and Eastern and Western Europe on the role of human resource management strategies in organizational change. She serves or has served on the advisory boards of the International Center for Work and Family of IESE Business School in Spain and of the State of Michigan YMCA. Prior to becoming a professor, she worked in human resources for Hitachi, IBM, GTE, and Deere & Co. in Japan, Europe, and the U.S.. She also interned in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a U.S. Congressman.
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