Judith Gordon, PhD
Professor and Chairperson- Organization Studies Department
Judith Gordon 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 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 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.
Her most recent articles include:
Hamilton, E., Gordon, J.R., & Whelan-Berry, K.S. 2006. Understanding the Work-Life Conflict of Never-married Women without Children. Women in Management Review, 21(5): 393-415.
Gordon, J.R. & Whelan-Berry, K.S. 2005. Contributions to Family and Household Activities by the Husbands of Midlife Professional Women. Journal of Family Issues, 26(7): 899–923.
Gordon, J.R. and Whelan-Berry, K.S. 2005. Women at Midlife: Changes, Challenges, and Contributions. Supporting Women’s Career Advancement, R. Burke and M.C. Mattis (Eds.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 124–147.
Pruchno, R.A., Brill, J.E., Shands, Y., Gordon, J.R., Genderson, M.W., Rose, M., & Cartwright, F., "Convenience Samples and Caregiving Research: How generalizable are the findings?" The Gerontologist. Forthcoming.
Walsh, K. & Gordon, J.R. "Creating an Individual Work Identity," Human Resource Management Review, Forthcoming.
Gordon, J.R., Whelan-Berry, K.S., & Hamilton, E.H. 2007. "The Relationship Among Work-Family Conflict and Enhancement, Organizational Work-Family Culture, and Work Outcomes for Older Working Women," Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12(4), 350-364.
Marcinkus, W.C., Whelan-Berry, K.S., & Gordon, J.R. 2007. "The Relationship of Social Support to the Work-Family Balance and Work Outcomes of Midlife Women," Women in Management Review, 22(2): 86-111.
Since coming to Boston College, Dr. Gordon has taught courses in organizational behavior, human resource management, micro organizational behavior, organizational structure and design, and total quality management in the doctoral, masters, and undergraduate programs.
Carroll School of Management
Fulton Hall 430A
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
judith.gordon.1@bc.edu
phone: 617-552-0454
web site: www2.bc.edu/~gordonj
