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is Executive Director of MIT’s Engineering Systems
Learning Center and he is a Senior Research Scientist
in MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is Co-Director
of the Labor Aerospace Research Agenda. Joel is co-author
of Lean Enterprise Value (Palgrave, 2003),
Knowledge-Driven Work (Oxford University Press,
1998), Strategic Negotiations (Harvard Business
School Press, 1994) and has co-authored or co-edited
many books, as well as more than sixty articles on
large-scale systems change, new work systems, labor-management
relations, negotiations, conflict resolution, organizational
learning, public policy, and economic development. Lean
Enterprise Value was awarded the International
Academy of Astronautics Engineering Sciences book
award. Joel holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations
from MIT and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations
from Cornell University.
Lean
Enterprise Value: Insights
from MIT’s Lean Aerospace
Initiative, Earll Murman,
Tom Allen, Kirkor Bozdogan,
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
Hugh McManus, Debbie Nightingale,
Eric Rebentisch, Tom Shields,
Fred Stahl, Myles Walton,
Joyce Warmkessel, Stanley
Weiss, and Sheila Widnall.
New York: Palgrave/Macmillan
(2003).
Knowledge-Driven
Work: Unexpected Lessons from
Japanese and United States
Work Practices, Work Practices
Diffusion Team (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
Michio Nitta, Betty Barrett,
Nejib Belhedi, Simon Chow,
Takashi Inaba, Iwao Ishino,
Wen-Jeng Lin, Michael Moore,
William Mothersell, Jennifer
Palthe, Shobha Ramanand, Mark
Strolle, and Arthur Wheaton;
with Cheryl Coutchie, Seepa
Lee, and Stacia Rabine). New
York: Oxford University Press
(1998) -- Reprinted in Spanish
(OUP, 2000).
Strategic
Negotiations: A Theory of
Change in Labor-Management
Relations, Walton, Richard,
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
and Robert McKersie. Boston:
Harvard Business School Press
(1994) -- Reissued in paperback
with a new forward on negotiated
change by Cornell Press (2000).
Joint
Training Programs: Union-Management
Approach to Preparing Workers
for the Future, Ferman,
Louis, Michele Hoyman, Joel
Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Ernest
Savoie. Ithaca: Cornell ILR
Press (1991).
joelcg@mit.edu
Phone: 617.253.5777
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 is a Professor
of Work and Employment Relations at MIT's Sloan School
of Management and is Co-Director of LARA. He has
done research on a variety of topics related to
industrial relations and human resource management
in the public and private sector. His book,
Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor
Market, with Paul Osterman, Richard M. Locke, and
Michael J. Piore, (MIT Press, 2001) looks at the
American labor market’s
many deep-rooted problems, including persistence
of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality
in earnings, and employees' lack of voice in the
workplace.
Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America. 2005.
Negotiations and Change:
From the Workplace to Society with David B. Lipsky (Eds.) 2003.
After
Lean Production:Evolving
Employment Practices in the
World Auto Industry. With
Russel D. Lansbury and John
Paul MacDuffie (Eds.). Ithaca:
ILR Press (1997).
Employment
Relations in a Changing World
Economy, edited with Richard
Locke and Michael Piore. Cambridge:
The MIT Press (1995).
The
Mutual Gains Enterprise:Forging
a Winning Partnership Among
Labor, Management, and Government,
with Paul Osterman. Boston:
Harvard Business School Press
(1994).
tkochan@mit.edu
Phone: 617.253.6689
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 is a Research
Scientist and Associate Director of the Engineering
Systems Learning Center with the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Before coming to MIT, she worked on the
faculty of Michigan State University’s School of
Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management.
Her research interests include globally dispersed teams,
lean manufacturing implementation, workplace knowledge
creation, and the impact of instability on workers in
the aerospace industry. She has published work on alternative
dispute resolution, team-based work systems and is co-author
of the recently released book, Knowledge-Driven Work.
Collective
Bargaining and Knowledge-Driven
Work, presented at the
Industrial Relations Research
Association 54th Annual Meeting
Poster Session, January 4-6,
2002, Atlanta, GA.
One
Foot in a Global Team, One
Foot at the Local Site: Making
Sense Out of Living in Two
Worlds Simultaneously,
Janice Klein and Betty Barrett,
in Advances in Interdisciplinary
Study of Teams: Virtual Teams,
(ed) Michael Beyerlein, Greenwich,
CT, JAI Press, V.8. (2001)
Knowledge-Driven
Work: Unexpected Lessons from
U. S. and Japanese Work Practices,
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
Michio Nitta, Betty Barrett,
Nejib Belhedi, Simon Chow,
Takashi Inaba, Iwao Ishino,
Wen-Jeng Lin, William Mothersell,
Jennifer Palthe, Shobha Ramanand,
Mark Strolle, and Arthur Wheaton,
Oxford University Press. (1998).
Worker
Adjustment to the Global Economy:
a Dynamic Learning Tool for
Labor Educators: an eight
module adult education curriculum
to assist U.S. workers to
understand their links to
the global economy, international
trade and competition, and
workers in developing countries.
Project funded through a grant
from the United States Agency
for International Development
and a consortium of Midwestern
universities led by Michigan
State University. Curriculum
released August 31, 1996.
barrettb@mit.edu
Phone: 617.258.7207
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 is the Program
Manager for LARA and the Communications Manager for the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development. Before
working with these research centers, Susan was the Project
Coordinator for the Institute for Work and Employment
Research at MIT and has worked on a variety of projects
including book manuscripts, meetings, publications,
and web sites. Susan was Co-Managing Editor of Perspectives
on Work, a publication she helped develop for the
Industrial Relations Research Association and for which
she continues to write articles.
scass@mit.edu
Phone: 617.253.8973
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 is
Post Doctoral Fellow for the LARA Project. Lydia
completed her PhD in Political Science in the spring of 2003. Her dissertation studies Spanish unions'
involvement in local partnerships to tackle issues
of training and employment, exploring the connection
of these new strategies to collective bargaining
and government policy. It recently won an award from the Industrial Relations Research Association. Fraile holds a law degree
from the University of Salamanca, Spain and a
MA in Political Science from the University of
Colorado at Denver. Her background dovetails with
LARA's interest on workforce development and effective
institutions.
fraile@ilo.org
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is research associate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He has recently joined the Lean Aerospace Initiative, with research responsibilities for organizational change, transformation and enterprise design. He is on the board of the Organizational and Change Division (ODC) of the Academy of Management. He is the author of numerous academic and professional journal articles on learning and change; including articles in the Harvard Business Review, Organizational Dynamics and AQP Journal describing new approaches to diffusing learning across organizations. Other writing about companies’ experiences in developing, sustaining, and transforming learning are in his co-authored books:
To the Desert and Back: The Story
of one of the Most Dramatic Business Transformations
on Record (2003, Jossey-Bass)
Car Launch: Managing the Human Side of Change (2000, Oxford University Press)
Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation (2000, Oxford University Press)
The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustain Momentum
in Learning Organizations (1999, Doubleday/Currency)
George has a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies, an MBA in marketing and finance,
and BS in Mechanical Engineering.
groth@mnit.edu
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is a Senior Research Fellow in Employee Relations at Templeton College, University of Oxford and Associate Fellow, SKOPE (ESRC Centre for Skills and Organisational Performance) based at Oxford and Warwick Universities. He is a member of the recently launched Institute of Aerospace and Automotive Studies at Oxford University, an interdisciplinary research institute and is also a Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Employee Relations.
He is particularly interested in the impact of innovations in HR on organisational effectiveness. Marc has been mapping the diffusion of High Performance Work Organisation (HPWO) in the UK Aerospace sector over the last 6 years and understanding the impact of these practices on organisational performance. His most recent publication: High
performance Work Organisation in UK Aerospace was launched at the Houses of Parliament by the Minister for Employment Relations. He has been awarded a substantial grant by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to support the development of HPWO across the sector in cooperation with employers and trade unions.
Marc has published widely in the area of human resource management and employee relations with over 40 papers, articles and book chapters. Marc teaches on a number of executive education programmes at Oxford University and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events. He also runs a network, the Personnel Directors’ Forum (PDF), which holds seminars, workshops and events for over 50 HR Directors at Oxford. He has an MSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) in History from Trinity College, Dublin. After working at the LSE as a researcher on comparative employment systems, he was a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) at Sussex University for 10 years. He has been at Templeton College since 1998.He has worked with a various public and private organizations across Europe on the HR dimensions of change.
Recent papers include:
Social Capital and Innovation: A Psychological Contract
Perspective, Academy of Management Conference, Seattle 2003
Organizational Justice and Knowledge Worker Commitment, Academy of Management Conference, Seattle 2003
IT Professionals and Knowledge Creation: The Role of Social
Capital, Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, 2003
Management Capability and High Performance Work Organization, paper presented to Cornell Conference on Strategic Human Resource Management, April 2003
Reward Strategies in UK R&D Establishments, forthcoming R&D Management
The Diffusion of HR practices in the UK Aerospace Industry, Conference of HR and Performance, University of Bath, April 2002
Compensation Strategy, HR Strategy and Organizational Performance, Academy of Management, Washington, 2001
High Performance Work Organization in UK Aerospace: Case
Study Report, Society
of British Aerospace Companies, 2000.
marc.thompson@templeton.ox.ac.uk
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 is Lecturer in Operations Management at Warwick Business School and Researcher at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. His research and teaching focuses on how firms achieve sustainable competitiveness. It explores links between people, management and operational processes and strategies, and covers variables such as innovation and productivity and their relation to lean and agile processes.
He holds a master's degree in China Studies (SOAS) and a Cambridge PhD in Operational Effectiveness. Prior roles include advisor on venture capital, research on strategy at Harvard, on flexibility and productivity at Stanford and Berkeley, on lean manufacturing and health at Cambridge (2005 Shingo prize winner), and on sustainable high performance work strategies and practices in aerospace at Oxford.
jannis@angelis.se
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