MIT Workplace CenterAn Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Center
Redesigning Work Family Community Connections
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Center Co-Directors
Lotte Bailyn
Thomas A. Kochan
 
Center Staff
Ann Bookman
Mona Harrington
Laurie O. Pass
Joanne Batziotegos
Tammy Buzzell
 
Affiliated Faculty
Marian Baird
Forrest Briscoe
Diane Burton
John Carroll
Roberto Fernandez
Kate Kellogg
Michele Williams
 
Post-Doctoral Associates
Ari Goelman
Claudia Peus
 
Research Assistants

Maria Alejandra Quijada
Brian Rubineau
Adam Seth Litwin
Heng (Alice) Xu
Kyoung-Hee Yu

Center Co-Directors
     
Lotte Bailyn
 

Lotte Bailyn
Selected Publications
 

Relinking Life and Work: Toward a Better Future. (Ford Foundation, 1996), with Rhona Rapoport, Deborah Kolb, Joyce K. Fletcher, D. E. Friedman, Susan Eaton, Maureen Harvey, and B. Miller
Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate World. (The Free Press, 1993).
Living With Technology: Issues at Mid-Career. (MIT Press, 1980).

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Thomas A. Kochan
 

Thomas A. Kochan

Thomas A. Kochan is a Professor of Work and Employment Relations at MIT's Sloan School of Management and is Co-Director of the MIT Workplace Center. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. His most recent book, edited with Richard Schmalensee,Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future,celebrates the MIT Sloan School of Management’s 50th anniversary and presents papers written for this special convocationprepared by student-faculty teams, speeches by business and world leaders, and summaries of discussions on the principles that should guide business and management.(MIT Press, 2003).

In September 2005, Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America will be published by MIT Press. In this, Kochan suggests working families should be catalysts for action and need to raise their voices to reassert the values on which the American dream is based. New, broad-based coalitions need to be built that demand working families be given the tools needed to regain control of their own destinies.

Email: tkochan@mit.edu
Faculty Webpage


 

Negotiations and Change: From the Workplace to Society. With David B. Lipsky (Eds.) (ILR Press, 2003).
Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. With Paul Osterman, Richard M. Locke, and Michael J. Piore, (MIT Press 2001).
After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry. With Russell D. Lansbury and John Paul MacDuffie (Eds.) (ILR Press, 1997).
Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy. Edited with Richard M. Locke and Michael Piore. (MIT Press, 1995).
The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government. With Paul Osterman. (Harvard Business School Press, 1994).

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Center Staff
     
Ann Bookman
 

Ann Bookman

Ann Bookman is Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center. She is a social anthropologist who has authored a number of publications in the areas of women’s work, work and family issues, unionization, and child and family policy. Her new book, Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy (Routledge 2004), extends the discourse on work-family integration to include issues of community involvement and civil society. Bookman has held a variety of teaching, research, and administrative positions and has also worked in government, as a presidential appointee during the first term of the Clinton administration, as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Family and Medical Leave.
Email: abookman@mit.edu

 

 
Principal Author, A Workable Balance: Report to Congress on Family and Medical Leave Policies. Committee on Leave, (May 1996).
Principal Author,
Working Women Count: A Report to the Nation, (U.S. Department of Labor, 1994).
"Parenting without Poverty: The Case for Funded Parental Leave," in Hyde and Essex, Editors, Parental Leave and Childcare: Setting a Research Agenda. (Temple University Press, 1991).
Women and the Politics of Empowerment, Coeditor, (Temple University Press, 1988).

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Mona Harrington
 

Mona Harrington

Mona Harrington is the Program Director of the MIT Workplace Center. She is a political scientist and writer who examines connections between American political culture and social policy. Her recent work focuses on the policy implications of profound changes—personal, political, economic, social—produced by the transformed roles of American women. Her latest book, Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics (Routledge, 2000) calls for a national conversation about new ways to connect families, care, women, and work. Her article "Women, the Values Debate, and a New Liberal Politics" (Dissent, Winter 2005) locates these issues in political discussion before and after the presidential election of 2004.
Email: mona@mit.edu

 

Women Lawyers–Rewriting the Rules (Plume/Penguin, 1995).
Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove
(with Nadya Aisenberg, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988).
The Dream of Deliverance in American Politics (Knopf, 1986).

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Laurie O. Pass
 


Laurie O. Pass is the Program Manager for the MIT Workplace Center. She has worked in the Boston publishing industry for the past twenty years in the areas of business, medicine, and higher education. Previously she was Business Director for the MIT Sloan Management Review, the quarterly business journal published by the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also served as Marketing Director for the New England Journal of Medicine, the leading weekly journal of medical research published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Marketing Manager for Allyn & Bacon, Inc., a publisher of college and reference books. She comes from Pittsburgh, and is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University.
Email: lpass@mit.edu


 
     
Joanne Batziotegos
 

Joanne Batziotegos is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center. She comes to the Center with over thirteen years of MIT experience.
Email: jtegos@mit.edu
 
 
 
     
Tammy Buzzell
 

Tammy Buzzell is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center and supports the Massachusetts Work-Family Council Initiative. Prior to coming to MIT, she worked in law school admissions and in a community bank. Tammy was a Chinese Studies major in college and enjoys annual trips to China with her family.
Email: tbuzzell@mit.edu
 
 
 
     
 

 
 
 
     
     
Affiliated Faculty
     
Marian Baird
 

Marian Baird

Marian Baird researches in women and work, industrial relations and human resource management. She was a visiting scholar at the MIT Workplace Center and the Institute for Work and Employment Relations in the summer/fall 2003. She is currently undertaking a major study of the availability, incidence and duration of maternity, paternity and parental leave in Australia. Baird is also engaged in research on greenfield sites and high commitment work systems, the Australian auto industry and the decentralization and deregulation of Australian industrial relations.

Baird teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is co-author of Strategic Human Resource Management, a major Australian HRM text. Marian is also a regular contributor to Worksite. Her short articles have covered topics as diverse as working life in Australia and the USA, future work arrangements, contemporary selection techniques, labor hire arrangements and the changing nature of the contract of employment. For selected publications, visit Baird’s web page.
Email: m.baird@econ.usyd.edu.au
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Forrest Briscoe
 

Forrest Briscoe

Forrest Briscoe is an assistant professor at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Forrest studies change in organizations and individual careers. His current research examines these issues in professional settings, asking both how organizational structures shape career flexibility, as well as how professional workers decide they can safely pursue career flexibility. He has previously written on the evolution of corporate health benefits, and industrial strategies toward the natural environment.
Email: fbriscoe@psu.edu


 

"H.R. Versus Finance: Who Controls Corporate Health Benefits Decisions and Does it Matter?" Conditional acceptance, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.
"Corporate Health Care Purchasing and the Revised Social Contract with Workers." With James Maxwell and Peter Temin. Business & Society, 39(3): 281-303, (2000).
"Corporate Approaches to Implementing Managed Competition." With Stephen Davidson, James Maxwell, Mark Robbins, and Cheryl Young. Health Affairs, 17(3): 216-226, (1998).
"Green Schemes: Comparing Environmental Strategies and their Implementation." With Alfred Marcus, James Maxwell, and Sandra Rothenberg. California Management Review, 39(3): 118-134, (1997).

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M. Diane Burton
 

M. Diane Burton
M. Diane Burton is an Assistant Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Her field of interest is employment relations in entrepreneurial companies and human resource management practices. Currently, she is conducting a study of Silicon Valley start-ups, with an emphasis on sources and consequences of different organizational systems, structures and practices. In ongoing research, Burton is studying entrepreneurial teams and executives’ careers.

Email: burton@mit.edu
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John S. Carroll
 

M. Diane Burton
John S. Carroll is a Professor of Behavior and Policy Sciences in the Organization Studies Group at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He researches individual and group decision-making in organizational and legal settings, in particular, their relationship to organizational learning and change practices such as self-assessment and root cause analysis. His recent work focuses on industries that manage significant hazards, such as nuclear power, petrochemicals, and healthcare. Carroll has examined the relationships between management philosophies, mental models, safety culture, and human performance improvement. In addition, he has studied negotiation, taxpayer decisions, and decision making in the criminal justice system.

Email: jcarroll@mit.edu
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Roberto Fernandez
 

Roberto Fernandez
Roberto Fernandez is a Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His expertise lies in organizational process, social networks, hiring, turnover, and diversity. Fernandez’ research and teaching focuses on economic sociology, organizational behavior, social stratification, race, and ethnic relations. Among his current projects are networks and hiring, and Internet-based recruitment.
Email: robertof@mit.edu
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Kate Kellogg
 

Kyoung-Hee Yu

Kate Kellogg is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where she earned her Ph.D. and was a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Her research examines the micro-foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise their work and family lives, organization members need to modify the collective understandings—institutions-- that guide their interactions with other members. But, they often face resistance from members interested in preserving the status quo. Kate studies how the contested micro-level interactions between challengers and defenders around everyday work practices shape new macro-level institutions of work and family in society. Before coming to MIT, Kate spent six years in consulting at Bain & Company and Health Advances, and several years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Baltimore/Washington Region American Red Cross.
Email: kkellogg@MIT.EDU


 

“When Less is More: Exploring the Relationship Between Employee Workload and Innovation Potential,” Center for Gender in Organization Insight #11, Simmons School of Management, Boston, MA, (2002).,
Kellogg, K., Orlikowski, W. J. and Yates, J. (2004). "Life in the Trading Zone: Hot Situations, Cool Technologies, and Knowledge Sharing Across Organizational and Occupational Communities.” Under second review at Organization Science.
Kellogg, K. (2005). “Challenging Operations: Changing Interactions, Identities, and Institutions at a Surgical Teaching Hospital.” Unpublished doctoral dissertation. MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Michele Williams
 

Richard M. Locke
Michele Williams is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies and Behavioral Policy Sciences at MIT's Sloan School of Management.She specializes in trust, work relationships, and collaboration across boundaries. Williams has examined the conditions under which psychological processes such as trust, interpersonal emotion, and perspective taking influence people's ability to build collaborative, high performing relationships--the type of relationships that provide knowledge-based firms with a competitive advantage. Currently, Williams is conducting a comparative study of management consulting firms that promises to link "soft" relationship-building skills to "hard" performance and career outcomes.
Email: mmw@mit.edu
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Post-Doctoral Associates
     
Ari Goelman
 

Ari Goelman

Ari Goelman is a post-doctoral associate at the MIT Workplace Center, as well as the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He is interested in the way that communication and information technologies are being used to change the workplace, particularly the spatial dynamics of these processes. His research takes a spatial structuring approach, looking at spatial practices as both shaping the use of communication technologies, as well as being shaped by their use. Currently, he is researching the extent to which radiologists have used their increased spatial flexibility, enabled by recent organizational and technological innovations, to achieve heightened levels of work-family balance.
Email: goelman@mit.edu

 

 
Goelman, Ari. 2005. "A Spatial Structuring Approach to IT Use and Workplace Change: What's Space Got to do With It?" MIT Doctoral Dissertation.
Goelman, Ari. 2005. "Information Technology, Autonomy and the Work of Urban Outpatient Clinicians." Philadelphia, PA: Paper presented at American Sociological Association National Conference. ,
Goelman, Ari. 2005. "Technology in Context: Mediating Factors in the Utilization of Planning Technologies." Environment and Planning A 37(5): 895-907. in .
Goelman, Ari. 2003. "The Process of Changing Process: Planning Technologies and Variance Review."Plan Canada 43(4): 28-30.

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Claudia Peus
 

Claudia Peus

Claudia Peus received her PhD from the University of Munich, Germany where she was a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Chair of Social- and Organizational Psychology. Her research interests include the impact of leadership style on employee attitudes and performance, work-family balance, and women’s career development. Currently she is working on a project on family-friendly corporate policies in Germany as well as a study that seeks to examine the critical factors for female managers´ career development in the US as well as in Germany. Her work experience includes conducting trainings and coachings for managers of commercial as well as non-profit organizations with regard to leadership, communication, and teamwork.
Email: peus@mit.edu

 

Peus, C., Traut-Mattausch, E., Kerschreiter, R., Frey, D. & Brandstätter, V. (2004). Ökonomische Auswirkungen professioneller Führung. [Economic Impact of Professional Leadership]. In M. Dürndorfer & P. Friederichs (Eds), Human Capital Leadership (193-207). Hamburg: Murmann.
Frey, D., Peus, C. & Jonas, E. (2004). Soziale Organisationen als Centers of Excellence mit Menschenwürde - Zur Professionalisierung der Mitarbeiter- und Unternehmensführung. [Social Organizations as Centers of Excellene – On the Professionalization of People Management and Business Management]. In B. Maelicke (Ed), Personal als Erfolgsfaktor in der Sozialwirtschaft (27-52). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Frey, D., Peus, C. & Traut-Mattausch, E. (2005). Innovative Unternehmenskultur und professionelle Führung – entscheidende Bedingungen für eine erfolgreiche Zukunft? [Innovative Organizational Culture and Professional Leadership – Crucial Conditions for a Successful Future?]. In D. Kudernatsch & P. Fleschhut (Eds), Management Excellence (351-376). Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel.
Peus, C., Streicher, B., Förg, M. & Frey, D. (2005). Leadership Style and Innovativeness: Are Transformationally led Followers More Innovative? Paper presented at the 14 th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psycholgy, Wuerzburg, 19.-23.7.2005.

 
     
     
Research Assistants
 
     
Maria Alejandra Quijada
 

Maria Alejandra Quijada

Maria Alejandra Quijada is a Ph.D candidate in Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a research assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. She graduated with honors as a Systems Engineer in Venezuela and obtained a Masters degree from Stanford University in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research. Her work experience includes being a financial forecaster at Procter and Gamble and an IT analyst at the largest cell phone company in Venezuela. Her research interests include organizational change, culture, leadership and work family issues.
Email: marialeq@mit.edu

 
 
     
Adam Seth Litwin
 

Brian Rubineau

Adam Seth Litwin is a PhD student in the Institute for Work & Employment Research at MIT. Adam came to MIT from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. after having done research at the London School of Economics and in the private sector. With an array of multidisciplinary interests in labor markets, labor policy, and strategic human resource management, Adam has recently undertaken work in the work-family sphere. The North American Commission for Labor Cooperation has contracted Adam to write the congressionally-mandated, semi-decadal report on the state of women and work in North America. He is also studying parental leave access and availability in Australia as well the degree to which high-tech firms in the US are strategizing in the realm of work-family.
Email: aslitwin@mit.edu


 

"Counting the Global Aerospace Workforce."; With Betty Barrett, Kevin Long and Lydia Fraile. Perspectives on Work 7(2), 13-15. Commissioned by Industrial Relations Research Association. (2004).
"Strategies for Workforce Flexibility and Capability: The New Job Families at Boeing St. Louis."; With Betty Barrett, Lydia Fraile and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld. Contracted technical report, US Department of Labor, funded by US DoL grant ES-12740-03-60. (2003).
"Trade Unions and Occupational Injuries: The British Evidence." Discussion paper #468, Centre for Economic Performance, London. [Funded by Leverhulme Trust.] (2000).

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Heng (Alice) Xu
 

Heng (Alice) Xu

Heng (Alice) Xu is a Ph.D. student in the Organization Studies Group at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. She has studied coordination and interpersonal negotiation. In a recent study in an environment of constant industry and organizational changes, she is trying to understand the impact of these changes on the organization - its culture and internal dynamics, and the individuals- their work, satisfaction, and life balance.
Email: hengxu@mit.edu


 

"Who's Doing What, When? Coordinating Work in a Distributed Software Development Team.";With Joanne Yates and Wanda Orlikowski, Academy of Management Conference in Honolulu, (2005).
"Mapping the Domain of Subjective Value in Negotiation."; With Jared R. Curhan and Hillary A. Elfenbein, MSI Report, 05-108 (2005).

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Kyoung-Hee Yu
 


Kyoung-Hee Yu

Kyoung-Hee Yu is a Ph.D. student in the “Institute for Work and Employment Research” at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Her research interests include international migration, community-based social movements, and the reform of organized labor. Her past research has looked at community-based organizing of Haitian nursing assistants in the Boston area. In her dissertation work, she is examining the reforms undertaken by a service sector union in the U.S. and its efforts to establish durable coalitions with immigrant communities.
Email: khyu@MIT.EDU


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