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One of the Center's key strategic objectives has been to strengthen the bridge between the corporate and academic worlds. Towards this end, the Center has sponsored many activities to bring together representatives from academia and corporations (and sometimes government and not-for-profit organizations) to encourage thoughtful and productive sharing of knowledge. The appointment of academic fellows has been an important strategy to support this. These appointments are intended to provide academic input and to stimulate the Roundtable, while at the same time providing researchers with the opportunity to interact with work/life practitioners. We are fortunate to have many leaders in the field as fellows of the Center.

Shelley MacDermid

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Professor, and Director, Center for Families
Purdue University

Shelley joined the Center for Work & Family as an academic fellow in 1997. She received an MBA in Management and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on relationships between job conditions and family life, with special interests in organizational size, adult development, and organizational policies, and has been published in scientific journals including the Journal of Marriage and Family and the Academy of Management Journal.

Shelley is the Associate Dean of the College of Consumer and Family Sciences and a Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University, where she also directs the Center for Families and the Military Family Research Institute. Additionally, in her role as the Director of the Midwestern Work Family Association (MWFA), Shelley joined the Center in its partnership with One Small Step on the BalanceSheets Series, and with former NEWFA Director Judi Casey, she has presented on the role of regional work/life organizations.


In 1999, Shelley's Center on Families initiated, along with CWF, the first-ever Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work/Life Research. Shelley is committed to working with the Center to strengthen the bridge between the academic and corporate worlds. Her research has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Henry A. Murray Center, the Department of Defense, the Lilly Endowment, and the state of Indiana; and has earned awards from the Groves Conference and Gamma Sigma Delta.  She recently served as the civilian co-chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health.  She is a 2006 winner of the Work-Life Legacy Award from the Families and Work Institute and in 2005, Shelley was named a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Family Issues, Family Relations, and Journal of Family and Economic Issues.



 

Mor Barak


Michàlle Mor Barak
Professor
School of Social Work and the Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California


Michàlle Mor Barak, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Southern California with a joint appointment in the School of Social Work and the Marshall School of Business. She received a B.A. and M.S.W. from the University of Haifa in Israel and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

She holds the Lenore Stein-Wood and the William S. Wood Professorship of Social Work and Business in a Global Society and is the Chair of the Work/Life concentration: Social Work in the Workplace. A principal investigator on several large research projects, she has published extensively in the areas of workforce diversity and inclusion in the U.S. and in a global context, social work practice in the workplace, workplace stress and social support, older workers, and work-family integration. She has authored three books, Social Networks and Health (Garland, 1991), Social Services in the Workplace (Haworth, 2000) and Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (Sage 2005). Her most recent book won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 by the Association of College and University Libraries.

Professor Mor Barak has received numerous awards of distinction, including a Fulbright award, the Lady Davis award for international exchange scholars, the University of California Regents Award, the Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and the Sterling C. Franklin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship.  She has been invited to give keynote addresses and received grants to lead prestigious conferences around the world, including the Rockefeller Foundation's grant for a conference on global workforce diversity in Bellagio, Italy, and the Borchard Foundation's grant to lead a global think tank of scholars on diversity management at the Chateau de la Bretesche, France



Marcie

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D.
Director, Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility and Associate Professor, Grad. Social Work & Management
Boston College

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D. directs the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College.  She was the Co-Principal Investigator for the 2006 National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development and is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Age & Generations Study.  With the Twiga Foundation, she is currently implementing the project, States as Employers-of-Choice.  Working with a group of over 20 scholars from around the world, she founded the Global Institute in 2007.  This project is a collaborative initiative with the School of Business at Middlesex University in London. 
In 1997, Marcie founded the Sloan Work and Family Research Network which provides resources about working families to business leaders and state legislators, as well as to academics around the world.  The Network celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2007.  She established the Network’s State Policy Initiative in 2004.   She was invited to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging as an issue expert, and recently co-edited a special issue of Generations (2007) that focused on aging and work.  Marcie’s articles have been published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals.  She was a founding co-editor for the international journal, Community, Work and Family.  Her recent publications include The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, published by Erlbaum Publishers (2006) which she edited with colleagues.  She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work and at the Carroll School of Management.  She received her B.A. from Tufts University, M.S.P. from Boston College, and Ph.D. from Boston University. Marcie was a recipient of the 2007 Work-Life Legacy Award and is an academic fellow of the Boston College National Work & Family Roundtable.


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Jennifer Swanberg

Executive Director, Institute for Workplace Innovation and Associate Professor, Social Work
University of Kentucky
   

Jennifer E. Swanberg, Ph.D. is the executive director and founder of the Institute for Workplace Innovation (iWin) at the University of Kentucky and an associate professor in the UK College of Social Work with joint appointments in the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health. Jennifer is also a faculty affiliate at UK’s Center on Poverty Research and the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Health, and a Research Fellow of the Boston College National Work & Family Roundtable.  Her research has focused on quality workplaces as a business and work-life effectiveness strategy, access to workplace flexibility among under-represented working populations, and the use of human capital and quality employment as a form of economic development. Jennifer is the co-principal investigator of a Ford Foundation-funded study examining the effects of quality work environments on business outcomes and employee health among hourly workers. She is also a research investigator at Boston College’s Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility, where she is the co-principal investigator of a study focusing on flexible work arrangements for older workers.

Jennifer’s research has been published in top research journals, and she has appeared as a national and international work-family expert on television and radio including MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NPR, BBC and CBC. She has been recognized by Alliance of Work-Life Progress as one of the profession’s Rising Stars, and her research has been selected as one of the top 10 research articles by the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.  Jennifer also writes a work-life column for Business Lexington, one of Kentucky’s premiere business publications. Prior to coming to the University of Kentucky, Jennifer worked as a research associate at the National Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and at the Families and Work Institute (FWI) in New York City. While at FWI, she co-authored The 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce. She serves on the boards of Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation, and the University of Kentucky Center on Poverty Research

Affiliated Faculty

In addition to the Center's full-time staff, there are a number of Boston College (and other University) faculty members who work closely with the Center. These outstanding individuals are doing work in the field that extends the expertise and "reach" of the Center in many interesting ways. Most often, their involvement with CWF involves collaborative research, which may be supported by our members and which we in turn make visible and available to our members. If you are interested in knowing more about the work of our Center Affiliates, please contact the Center.

Brad Googins

Brad Googins
Executive Director
Center for Corporate Citizenship
Boston College

Brad is the Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Citizenship (CCC) at Boston College and a Professor in the Department of Organizational Studies at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. The Center for Corporate Citizenship is a leading voice in corporate citizenship, through its research, executive education, and national and international convenings. It maintains an active partnership with over 300 businesses who are members of the Center. Prior to his appointment to this role, Brad founded and for six years directed the Boston College Center for Work & Family.

Dr. Googins is the author of several books and monographs including: "The Company of Choice, Strategic Responses: Corporate Involvement in Family and Community Issues," and "Balancing Job and Homelife Study: Changes Over Time in a Corporation; and Work-Family Stress - Private Lives, Public Responses."  A graduate of Boston College, Dr. Googins received a Masters in Social Work, Community Organization and Social Planning from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, and a Ph.D. in social policy from the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University. Brad also serves as a Co-Editor of The International Journal , Community, Work and Family.


 
Judy Gordon

Judith R. Gordon, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairperson
Organizational Studies
Boston College

Judith R. Gordon has been a faculty member in the Department of Organization Studies at Boston College since 1977, and has served as the chairperson of the department twice. She  received an AB in psychology Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University, an MEd in educational research and measurement from Boston University, and a PhD in management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She  She has extensive training and consulting experience in the areas of organizational behavior, human resources management, and career development. She is currently the Chairperson of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Dr. Gordon's research and publication interests are in the areas of organizational change, the career development of professional women, the delivery of information systems services, and managerial effectiveness. She is the author of Organizational Behavior: A Diagnostic Approach (Prentice Hall, 2002, 1999, 1996; Allyn and Bacon, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993), Information Systems: A Management Approach (Dryden, 1999, 1996), Management and Organizational Behavior (Allyn & Bacon, 1990), and Human Resource Management: A Practical Approach (Allyn & Bacon, 1986). She has also written articles about the the mid-life transition of professional women, the delivery of information systems services, the role of the individual in the change process, the adoption of distributed database management systems, and the development of complicated understanding as a way of increasing managerial effectiveness.

Dr. Gordon currently teaches courses in Human Resources Management, Micro-Organizational Behavior, and Managing Change. She has conducted extensive executive and managerial training in the areas of Leadership, Decision Making, Communication, and Quality Management. She has also led a number of consulting assignments that focus on improving managerial performance.


 
TimHall

Douglas T. (Tim) Hall
Founding Director, Executive Development Roundtable
Professor, Organizational Behavior
Boston University School of Management

Tim is the Founding Director of the Executive Development Roundtable and a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Management at Boston University. He is also a core faculty member of the Human Resources Policy Institute. He has served as Acting Dean and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Faculty Director for the Masters Programs at the School of Management. He received his graduate degrees from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. He has held faculty positions at Yale, York, Michigan State and Northwestern Universities, as well as visiting positions at Columbia, Minnesota, and the US Military Academy at West Point. At Northwestern, he held the Earl Dean Howard Chair in Organizational Behavior and served as department chair. In the Spring of 2002 he was a visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Tim is the co-author of Career Management and Work/Life Integration: A guide to Meaningful Work and a Meaningful Life (Sage Publications, scheduled for lage 2006) with Center for Work & Family Executive Director Brad Harrington. He is the co-author of The Career is Dead - Long Live the Career: A Relational Approach to Careers, Careers in Organizations, Organizational Climates and Careers, The Two-Career Couple, Experiences in Management and Organizational Behavior, Career Development in Organizations, Human Resource Management: Strategy Design and Implementation, and Handbook of Career Theory and Careers In and Out of Organizations

He is a recipient of the American Psychological Association's James McKeen Cattell Award (now called the Ghiselli Award) for research design, the American Society for Training and Development's Walter Storey Professional Practice Award, and the Academy of Management's Everett C. Hughes Award for Career Research. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Academy of Management, where he served as a member of the Board of Governors and as President of the Organizational Behavior Division and co-founder and President of the Careers Division. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. He has served on the editorial boards of eight scholarly journals. His research and consulting activities have dealt with career development, women's careers, career plateauing, work/family balance, and executive succession. He has served as a consultant to organizations such as Sears, AT&T, General Electric, Honeywell, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly, the World Bank, and the United States Army.



jamie

Jamie Ladge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Resources Management

Northeastern University

Jamie Ladge recently completed her doctorate in Organization Studies at Boston College. She will be joining the College of Business faculty at Northeastern University in the Fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Human Resources Management. Jamie was a fellow at BC's Center for Work & Family from 2007-2008.

Jamie's primary research interests are with the intersection of careers, identity and work-life integration.  In her dissertation research, Jamie explores how first-time mothers re-define and evaluate their maternal and professional identity and efficacy following re-entry. She also looks at how aspects of an organization can influence this re-definition and evaluation of a woman's identity after re-entry. Jamie has received several academic fellowships and awards for her research including a competitive doctoral student fellowship award from the Graduate Management Admissions Council's Management Education Research Institute and a dissertation completion fellowship from Boston College. Her most recent research work has been published in Organizational Dynamics and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. She also has published a number of Harvard Business School cases.

Jamie earned her B.S. from Babson College, MBA from Simmons College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Boston College.  Prior to beginning the doctoral program at B.C., Jamie worked in consulting and e-commerce firms.  She resides in Newton with her husband and three young children.

 


 
Sharon Lobel

Sharon Lobel, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Albers School of Business and Economics
Seattle University

Sharon joined the Center for Work & Family as an academic fellow in 1993. She received an MA and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University and is currently a Professor of Management at Seattle University. Her research focuses on the many aspects of managing diversity in organizations. Over the years, Sharon has contributed to many projects and publications at the Center including authorship of the Center's policy papers, "Work/Life and Diversity" and "Quality of Life in Brazil and Mexico."

Her current research interests include values related to work and personal life choices, values of MBA students and how they change, and leadership education.  She has published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives and elsewhere.  She teaches in the Executive Leadership Program and in other courses offered by the Center for Leadership Formation at Seattle University.  She is an advocate for flexible work arrangements in academia and elsewhere; she is in her 6th year of a tenured job share position with another Full Professor.


Phil Mirvis
Philip Mirvis, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Corporate Citizenship
Boston College

Phil joined the Center for Work & Family as an academic fellow in 1994. He received his BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Michigan's Graduate School of Business and has also been a faculty member at Boston University and a Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. His research and private practice concerns large-scale organizational change and the character of the workforce and workplace.

Phil is an organizational psychologist and senior research fellow at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.  An advisor to businesses in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia, he has authored eight books on his studies including The Cynical Americans (social trends), Building the Competitive Workforce (human capital), Joining Forces (the human dynamics of mergers) and To the Desert and Back (a business transformation case).  His most recent is Beyond Good Company:  Next Generation Corporate Citizenship (with Bradley Googins and Steve Rochlin). 

In the areas of social responsibility/corporate citizenship, Phil has worked with the Chief Executives of Ben & Jerry’s, the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Unilever, and with the SK Group (South Korea).  He has convened a two-year, multi-company forum on integrating citizenship into business and another on corporate branding.  He has also led week long service learning journeys of senior executives from Unilever, Shell, Ford, and Novo Nordisk to engage, first-hand, with social and environmental issues in China, India, Borneo, Sri Lanka, and Brazil and urban areas in the U.S. and U.K.