Academic Vita (Abridged)

UNIVERSITY FACULTY POSITIONS

  • Professor and Director Emeritus, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University (since May, 2011)
  • Professor (July, 1986 to May, 2011), Associate Professor (July, 1980 to June, 1986), and Assistant Professor (September, 1976 to June, 1980), School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
  • Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, January-March, 2001.
  • Visiting Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September, 1992 – June, 1993.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York, New York, January, 1984 through June, 1984.
  • Research Associate, Institute of Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University, 1991 to 2011
  • Adjunct Faculty, Michigan State University College of Law, January, 2004 – 2011
  • Faculty Associate, Canadian Studies Centre, Michigan State University, 1991 to 2011

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

  • Interim Director, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, July, 2007- August, 2008; Interim Director and Interim Deputy Director, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, January, 1999 – August, 1999.
  • Director, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, July, 1985 to June, 1993.
  • Associate Director for the Academic Program, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, August, 2001 – August, 2003, September, 1999 – May, 2000, July,1979 – June, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Labor and Employment Relations Research Association (Executive Board, 1990-93; Teaching Award Committee, 2000-02 )
  • National Academy of Arbitrators (Chair of Research Committee, June 1, 2005 –07; Chair of International Studies Committee, 2012-14; Co-Editor of Proceedings of NAA 2013 Annual Meeting, 2013; Editor of Proceedings of NAA 2014 Annual Meeting, 2014)
  • American Arbitration Association

BOOKS

  • Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006 (edited with S. Friedman, A. Levin, and M. Kaminski).
  • Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003 (edited).
  • Labor Standards in the United States and Canada, Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003 (with K. Roberts and R.O. Clarke).
  • Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice, Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Publishing, 2000(edited with Ellen Ernst Kossek).
  • Labor Law, Industrial Relations, and Employee Choice, Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1996 (with J. Beck and D.H. Kruger)
  • Employment Law: The Workplace Rights of Employees and Employers, Oxford, United Kingdom, Blackwell Publishers, 1996 (with B. W. Wolkinson).
  • Industrial Relations and Firm Performance, Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Madison, Wis.: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1987 (edited with M. Kleiner, M. Roomkin, and S. Salsburg).
  • The Collective Bargaining Process: Readings and Analysis, Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc., 1983 (edited with Jean Baderschneider and John Fossum).

PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS

  • “Collective Bargaining and Public Policy: Pathways to Work-Family Policy: Adoption in Australia and the United States,” European Management Journal, 2013,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031 (with Peter Berg, Marian Baird, and Ellen Ernst Kossek).
  • “Joint Responsibility Unionism: A Multi-Plant Model of Collective Bargaining Under Employment Security,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2009, pp. 60-81 (with Peter Berg).
  • “The United States of America,” in Regulating Employment, Industrial Relations and Labour Law: International Comparisons between Key Countries, Greg J. Bamber and Philippe Pochet, eds., Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, Book Number 73, 2010, Kluwer Law International: The Netherlands, forthcoming (with Michael L. Moore and Stacy Hickox).
  • “The Economic Impact Of Collective Bargaining at the State Level In Michigan: The Case of the 2006 Auto Assembly Industry Special Attrition Program,” Labor and Employment Relations Association 61st Annual Proceedings, 2010, pp. 31-43 (with Mary Hamman and Kent Hill).
  • “Automotive and Other Manufacturing Industries in Michigan: Output, Employment, Earnings, and Collective Bargaining, 1980-2001,” in Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark Analysis of its Fiscal and Economic Structure, C. Ballard, P. Courant, D. Drake, R. Fisher, and E. Gerber, eds., East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2003, pp. 145-68 (with Dale Belman).
  • “The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Competitiveness and Employment,” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 45-74 (with Dale Belman).
  • “Basic Aluminum” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 87-100.
  • “Auto Assembly,” Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed. Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 101-16 (with Peter Berg).
  • “Automobile Parts” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 118-32 (with Michael L. Moore).
  • “Overview and Conclusions” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 151-60.
  • “Collective Bargaining in Context,” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 3-12 (with Peter Berg).
  • “Competitiveness and Employment Protection and Creation: An Overview of Collective Bargaining in the United States,” in Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies, Richard N. Block, ed., Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003, pp. 13-44.
  • “The Korean Industrial Relations System: From Post-Independence to Post-IMF,” in Transforming Korean Business and Management Culture, Eunmi Chang, ed., Elizabeth,NJ and Seoul, Hollym, 2002, pp. 309-44 (with JeongHyun Lee and Eunjong Shin).
  • “Post-strike Effects of Labor Conflict on Retail Consumers: Preliminary Evidence from the 1998 Northwest Airlines and General Motors Strikes” Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, January 4-6, 2002, Paula B. Voos, ed., 2002, pp. 58-67(with Brian Silver).
  • “Collective Bargaining, Competitiveness and Employment In The United States,” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter, 2001, pp. 697-715
  • “Collective Bargaining, Industrial Relations, and Human Resource Systems: Managing in Environments,” in Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice, Ellen Ernst Kossek and Richard N. Block, eds., Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Publishing, 2000, pp. 6-1 to 6-21.
  • “Grievance Mediation in Manufacturing: A Case Study” Dispute Resolution Journal, October, 1996, pp. 54-60 (with J. Beck and A.R. Olson)
  • “Traditional and Non-Traditional Systems for Resolving Disputes Under Collective Bargaining,” Workplace Topics, Vol. 2, No. 3 (July, 1992), pp. 113-29).
  • “American Industrial Relations in the 1980’s: Transformation or Evolution?” in Reflections on the Transformation of Industrial Relations, Institute of Management and Labor Relations Series, No. 1, James Chelius and James Dworkin, eds., Metuchen, N.J.:IMLR Press/Rutgers University, 1990, pp. 19-48.
  • “Industrial Relations Innovations in the Smaller Firm,” Modern Michigan, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, 1989, pp. 12-14 (with J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, D. Gash, E. Kossek, M. Moore, P. McHugh, and A. Gilles).
  • “Impediments to Innovative Employee Relations Arrangements,” in Investing in People: A Strategy to Address America’s Workforce Crisis, U.S. Department of Labor, Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency, September, 1989, pp. 2003-2056 (with B.W. Wolkinson).
  • “Industrial Relations and the Performance of the Firm,” in Human Resources and the Performance of the Firm, Morris M. Kleiner, Richard N. Block, Myron Roomkin and Sidney Salsburg, eds. Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Madison, Wis.: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1987, pp. 319-43 (with Morris M. Kleiner, Myron Roomkin, and Sidney Salsburg).
  • “Structural Change and Industrial Relations in the United States’ Manufacturing and Transportation Sectors: 1973-1983,” in The Response of Industrial Relations to Economic Change, Hervey Juris, Mark Thompson, and Wilbur Daniels, eds. (Madison, Wis.: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1985), pp. 337-82 (with Kenneth McLennan).
  • “The Unionization Process: A Review of the Literature,” in Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, David B. Lipsky and Joel M. Douglas, eds., Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1983, pp. 31-70 (with S. Premack).
  • “Summary and Conclusions,” in U.S. Industrial Relations 1950-1980: A Critical Assessment, Jack Stieber, Robert B. McKersie, and D. Quinn Mills, eds. (Madison, Wis: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1981), pp. 343-61 (with Jack Stieber).
  • “Unionism in the Health Care Industry: An Overview,” The Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration, Vol.2, No. 1, August, 1979, pp. 49-58.
  • “Job Changing and Union-Negotiated Nonwage Provisions,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 17, No. 3, October, 1978, pp. 296-307.
  • “The Impact of Seniority Provisions on the Manufacturing Quit Rate,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol.31, No. 4, July, 1978, pp. 474-88.
  • “An Interindustry Analysis of Bargaining Outcomes: Preliminary Evidence from Two-Digit Industries,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 91, No. 3, August, 1977, pp. 431-52 (with Thomas A. Kochan).
  • “The Impact of Union-Negotiated Employment Security Provisions on the Manufacturing Quit Rate,” Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Atlantic City, NJ, September 16-19, 1976, pp. 265-73.
LABOR ARBITRATION
  • “Elapsed Time in Grievance Arbitration,” Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators, May, 1990 (with J. Stieber and V. Nichol).
  • “The Impact of Attorneys and Arbitrators on Arbitration Awards,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 40, No. 4 (July, 1987), pp. 543-55 (with Jack Stieber).
  • “How Representative are Published Arbitration Decisions?” in Arbitration 1984: Absenteeism, Recent Law, Panels, and Published Decisions/Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators, Chicago, Ill., May 22-25, 1984 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1985), pp. 172-191 (with Jack Stieber and Leslie F. Corbitt), http://naarb.org/proceedings/pdfs/1984-172.PDF.
  • “Legal and Traditional Criteria in the Arbitration of Sex Discrimination Grievances,” Arbitration Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, December 1977, pp. 241-55.

LABOR LAW

  • “Reform of Industrial Relations in the Broader Ontario Public Service: Lessons from Michigan?” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Vol. 17, Spring, 2013, forthcoming.
  • “The Passage of ‘Right-to-Work’ in Michigan: How Did It Happen? What Does It Mean?” International Labor Brief, Korea Labor Institute, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2013.
  • “The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)” in Encyclopedia of Career Development, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus and Gerard A Callanan, eds., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
  • “An Introduction to the Current State of Workers’ Rights,” in Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States, Richard N. Block, with Sheldon Friedman, Andy Levin, and Michelle Kaminski, eds., Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006, pp. 1-17 (with Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and AndyLevin).
  • “Rethinking the National Labor Relations Act and Zero-Sum Labor Law: An Industrial Relations View,” Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1997, pp. 30-55.
  • “Collective Bargaining and the Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review of NRLB Decision and Arbitration Awards,” Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Baruch College, New York, New York, April, 1997, pp. 176-91.
  • “Labor Law, Economics, and Industrial Democracy: A Reconciliation,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 34, No. 3 (July, 1995), pp. 402-16.
  • “Employee Participation Plans and the NLRA: Toward Making (Some) Sense from Electromation, Dialogues, Vol. 1, Issue 1, May, 1993, pp. 1,3.
  • “Comment: Research on Labor Law in the 1990s: The Challenge of Defining a Representational Form,” in Harry C. Katz, ed. The Future of Industrial Relations: Proceedings of the Second Bargaining Group Conference,, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, 1991, pp. 139-44.
  • “Redressing the Imbalance in the Law of Union Representation: The Principle of Workplace Neutrality,” Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1990, pp. 145-53.
  • “Some Are More Equal Than Others: The Relative Status of Employers, Unions, and Employees in the Law of Union Organizing,” Industrial Relations Law Journal, Vol. 10, No.2 (1988), pp. 220-40 (with Benjamin W. Wolkinson and James Kuhn).
  • “The Impact of Employment-at-Will Judicial Decisions on the Outcomes of NLRB Representation Elections,” Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 28-30, 1986 (with C. Mahoney and L. Corbitt).
  • “Delay and the Union Election Campaign Revisited: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,” in Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. III, David Lewin and David B. Lipsky, eds. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1986), pp. 43-82 (with Benjamin W. Wolkinson).
  • “Labor Law and Fundamental Issues in Unionism: A Research Agenda,” Industrial Relations Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1985), pp. 356-61.
  • “The Legal Environment as a Challenge to Unions,” Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, New York, N.Y., December 28-30, 1982, pp. 22-29 (with Myron Roomkin); excerpted as “Regulatory System Encourages Employers to Take the Offensive,” Monthly Labor Review, Vol.106, No. 4, April, 1983, pp. 25-26.
  • “A Preliminary Analysis of the Participation Rate and the Margin of Victory in NLRB Elections,” Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1981, pp. 220-26 (with Myron Roomkin); excerpted as “Determinants of Voter Participation in Union Certification Elections,” Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 105, No. 4, April, 1982, pp. 45-47.
  • “Case Processing Time and the Outcomes of Representation Elections: Some Empirical Evidence,” University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 1981, No. 1, pp. 75-97 (with Myron Roomkin).
  • “The NLRB and Alternative Situs Picketing: The Search for the Elusive Standard,” Industrial Relations Law Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter, 1979, pp. 643-70 (with B.W. Wolkinson and D.E. Mitchell).

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

  • “Drug Testing and the Law,” in Employment Law, 2nd Ed., B.W. Wolkinson, ed., Oxfor, UK and Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 2007, pp. 377-405.
  • “Work-Family Legislation in The United States, Canada, And Western Europe: A Quantitative Comparison,” Pepperdine Law Review, Vo. 34, January, 2007, pp. 333-58.
  • “The Legal and Administrative Context of Work and Family Leaves and Related Policies in the United States, Canada, and the European Union,” in Managing the Work-Home Interface: A Psychological Perspective, Fiona Jones, Ronald Burke and Mina Westman, eds., London: Routledge Press, 2006, pp. 39-68 (with Martin Malin, Ellen Kossek, and Angela Holt).
  • “New Employment Relations: Challenges and Basic Assumptions,” in Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice, Ellen Ernst Kossek and Richard N. Block, eds., Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Publishing, 2000,pp. 1-1 to 1-33.
  • “The Employer as Social Arbiter: Considerations in Limiting Involvement in Off-the-Job Behavior,” Employee Rights and Responsibilities Journal, Vol.6, No. 2 (1993), pp. 139-55 (with E. Kossek).
  • “The Legal and Institutional Framework for Employment Security in the United States: An Overview,” in Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility: An International Perspective, Kazutoshi Koshiro, ed. (Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1992), pp. 127-48.
  • “Comment on Alan B. Krueger, “The Evolution of Unjust-Dismissal Legislation in the United States” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 45, No. 4 (July 1992), pp. 792-95 (with Jack Stieber).
  • “The Propriety of the Employer Serving as Social Arbiter,” Proceedings of the 1988 National Conference of the Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights, Virginia Beach, Virginia, October 13-14, 1988, pp. 317-23 (with Ellen Ernst Kossek).
  • “Employer Attitudes Toward Discharged Workers,” Proceedings of the 6th World Congress, International Industrial Relations Association, Kyoto, Japan, March 28-31, 1983, pp. 2-22 (with Jack Stieber).

INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS

  • “Statutory Leave Entitlements Across Developed Countries: Why US Workers Lose Out On Work–Family Balance,” International Labour Review, Vol. 152, No. 1, March, 2013, pp. 125-44 (with Joo-Young Park and Young-Hee Kang).
  • “Economic Perspectives on International Labor Standards,” Michigan State University Detroit College of Law Journal of International Law, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Fall, 2002, pp. 417-26 (with Karen Roberts and Russell Ormiston).
  • “International Labor Standards and International Trade: An Economic Overview,” in Labor and Employment Law and Economics, K. Dau-Schmidt and S. Harris, eds., part of Edward Elgar’s Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2009, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, forthcoming (with Jonas Zoninsein).
  • “Indicators Of Labour Standards: An Overview And Comparison,” in Qualitative Indicators of Labour Standards: Comparative Methods and Applications , David Kucera, ed., Social Indicators Research Series, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007, pp. 27-56.
  • “Models of International Labor Standards,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 40, No. 2, April, 2001, pp. 258-92 (with K. Roberts, C. Ozeki, and M. Roomkin).
  • “An Overview of Labor Standards in the United States and Canada,” Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Vol. 2, January 3-5, 1998, pp. 1127-34 (with Karen Roberts), reprinted in Labor Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 7, September, 1998.
  • “Ranking Labor Standards Across Countries: A Case Study of the United States and Canada,” Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Bologna, Italy, September 22-26, 1998, pp. 99-103 (with K. Roberts).

UNITED STATES – CANADA COMPARISONS

  • “Industrial Relations in the United States and Canada,” in Global Industrial Relations, Michael Morley, Patrick Gunnigle, and David G. Collings, eds., London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 25-52.
  • “A Comparison of Labour Standards in the United States and Canada,” Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2000, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 273-306 (with K. Roberts).
  • “Reforming U.S. Labor Law and Collective Bargaining: Some Proposals Based on the Canadian Industrial Relations System,” in Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law, S. Friedman, R. Hurd, R. Oswald, and R. Seeber, eds., (Ithaca, NY, ILR Press, 1994), pp. 250-59.
  • “NAFTA, Collective Bargaining, and Employment Adjustments in the United States and Canada: Implications for Michigan,” in Policy Choices, K. Roberts and M. Wilson, eds., East Lansing, MSU Press, 1996, pp. 217-34.

UNITED STATES – EUROPEAN UNION COMPARISONS

  • “Collective Bargaining as a Form of Employee Participation: Observations on the United States and Europe,” in Handbook of Participation in Organizations, P. Gollan, A. Wilkinson, M. Marchington, and D. Lewin, eds., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 186-211 (with Peter Berg).
  • “The Economic Dimension of the Employment Relationship,” in The Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives, Jackie Coyle-Shapiro, Lynn Shore, Susan Taylor, Lois Tetrick eds., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 94-118(with Peter Berg and Dale Belman).
  • “Comparing and Quantifying Labor Standards in the United States and the European Union,” International Journal of Comparative Labor Law and Industrial Relations, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter, 2003, pp. 441-67(with Peter Berg and Karen Roberts).

LABOR UNION BEHAVIOR

  • “Union Organizing and the Allocation of Union Resources,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, October, 1980, pp. 101-113.
  • “Union Decision-Making and the Supply of Union Services: A Preliminary Analysis,” Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Atlanta, Ga., December 28-30, 1979 (with D. Saks).

GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED EMPLOYER-SPECIFIC TRAINING

  • “Are Training Subsidies to Firms Effective? The Michigan Experience,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 46, No. 4 (July, 1993), pp. 625-36 (with H. Holzer, M. Cheatum. and J. Knott).