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George Strauss

George Strauss

Professor Emeritus
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Academic Status: Emeritus
Office Hours: By Appointment Only, IIR
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Education

BA, Swarthmore College
Ph.D., Economics and Social Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

     

Positions Held

At Haas since 1960

1992-present, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business
1961-1991, Professor, Haas School of Business
1959-1961, Professor, University of Buffalo
1957-1959, Associate Professor, University of Buffalo
1954-1957, Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo
1951-1954, Research Associate (post-doc), Cornell University


Visiting Appointments:

University of Sydney, Cardiff, Western Australia and Trier Fulbright Scholar, Australia


External Service and Assignments

  • Former President, Industrial Relations Research Association
  • Former Chair, Personnel Board, City of Berkeley
  • Member, Mayor’s Budget Committee, City of Berkeley
  • Editor, Industrial Relations
  • Member or former member of following editorial boards: Industrial Relations; Human Relations, New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Human Resources Management, International Journal of Employment Studies.


Current Research and Interests

  • Internal Union Government
  • Comparative Industrial Relations
  • History of Organizational Behavior


Selected Papers and Publications

  • “HRM in the US: Correcting Some British Impressions,” International Journal of Human Resources Management, 12, 2001, 873
  • “What’s Happening Inside US. Unions: Democracy and Union Politics,” Journal of Labor Research 21, 1999, 211-226
  • Human Resources Policy (with L. Sayles), Dame 1999
  • Organizational Participation: Myth or Reality (with F. Heller, E. Pusic, and B. Wilpert): Oxford, 1999
  • “Issues in Union Structure” in S. Bacharach, ed., Research in the Sociology of Organizations 12, 1994, 1
  • “Present at the Beginning: Some Personal Notes on OB’s Early Days and Later” in A. Bedeian, ed. Management Laureates, JAI Press, 3, 1993
  • "Against the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union Leaders: 1984-2001," in  Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss, eds.  Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers.With Marshall Ganz,  Kim Voss, Teresa Sharpe and Carl Somers)  Cornell: 2004.
  • Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods of Studying Industrial Relations (with K. Whitfield) Cornell 1998


Honors and Awards

  • A.J. Marrow Award, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1953
  • Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Berkeley Citation

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