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Karlene Roberts

 

Professor in the Graduate School
Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group
1-510-642-5221
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment, F549
Personal Homepage:
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/obir/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

BA, psychology, Stanford University
Ph.D., psychology, UC Berkeley

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1968
1968 - present Lecturer to full professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Research Psychologist, Institute of Industrial Relations

Associate Director, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management

 

Visiting Appointments
Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

External Service and Assignments

  • 2007-2009 Association of Space Explorers Committee on Near Earth Objects Workshops for treaty developed for the United Nations
  • 2007-2008, National Research Council, National Academy of Engineering, Bureau of Reclamation Security Study
  • 2005-2006, National Research Council, National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management
  • 2005, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center for the Study of High Consequence Event Preparedness and Response Merit Review Panel
  • 2004-2005, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Aerospace Medicine and the Medicine of Extreme Environments and Committee on Review of the Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap (NASA)
  • 2003-2008, American Association of University Professors, Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession
  • 1999-2008 Board of Directors, Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, Stanford University and Veteran’s Administration, Palo Alto
  • 1997-2009 Member, Research Committee, National Patient Safety Foundation of the American Medical Association
  • Member or former member of the following editorial boards: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, California Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Risk Management, An International Review, Clinician in Management

 

Current Research and Interests

  • The design and management of organizations and systems of organizations in which errors can have catastrophic consequences. The results of this research have been applied to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations, the U.S. Coast Guard, The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), The Federal Aviation’s Air Traffic Control System, Gard Services, British Petroleum, NASA, and the medical industry.

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • Roberts, K.H., V. Desai, and P. Madsen (in press). "Reliability Enhancement and Demise at Back Bay Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital." In P. Carayon (Ed) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Roberts, K.H. and M. Grabowski (in press). "Risk Mitigation in Healthcare Organizations and in Aggregations of those Organizations," In M.S. Bogner (Ed.) Human Error in Medicine (2nd edition), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Roberts, K.H., Desai, V., and Yu, Kuo (in press). "Decision Making in High Reliability Organizations," In W. Starbuck and G. Hodgkinson (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, London: Oxford.
  • Farber, D.A., Bea, R. G., Roberts, K. H., Wenk, E., and Inkabi, K. (in press). "Reinventing Flood Control," Tulane Law Review, Vol. 81.
  • Madsen, P., Desai, V., Roberts, K.H., Wong, D (2006). "Mitigating Hazards through Continuing Design: The Birth and Evolution of a Pediatric Intensive Care Organization." Science, 17, 239-248.
  • Desai, V., Roberts, K.H. and Ciavarelli, A. (2006). "The Relationship between Safety Climate and Recent Accidents: Behavioral Learning and Cognitive Attributions." Human Factors, 48, 639-650.

 

Teaching

  • UGBA 105, Introduction to Organizational Behavior, 2006

 

Honors and Awards

  • Docteur Honaris Causa, Universite Paul Cezanne – Aix, Marseilles III
  • Fellow, Academy of Management, American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society
  • Recent research grants from National Science Foundation; France Telecom; and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • 2007, Emerald Management Review Citation of Excellence in Management for one of top fifty (from 15,000) management articles of 2006 (with Peter Madsen, Vinit Desai, and Daniel Wong)
  • 2004-present, Fellow, Center for Program/Project Management Research, University Space Research Association (sponsored by NASA)
  • 2002, Earl F. Cheit Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching (undergraduate program)
  • 1997, George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management In S.R. Clegg, C. Hardy, and W. Nord (eds.) Handbook of Organization Studies Roberts, K.H. and M. Grabowski. (1996) "Organizations, Technology, and Structuring."



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