MIT Workplace Center


	Lotte Bailyn Thomas A. Kochan
	Ann Bookman Mona Harrington Susan Cass Forrest Briscoe Kate Kellogg Brian Rubineau Jamie Browning Cicely Dockett
	Pablo Boczkowski Diane Burton John Carroll Roberto Fernandez Michele Williams

Lotte Bailyn is a Professor of Management (in the Organization Studies Group) at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Workplace Center. In her work she has set out the hypothesis that by challenging the assumptions in which current work practices are embedded, it is possible to meet the goals of both business productivity and employees’ family and community concerns, and to do so in ways that are equitable for men and women. Her most recent book, Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance with Rhona Rapoport, Joyce K. Fletcher, Bettye H. Pruitt (Jossey Bass, 2002) chronicles a decade of experience working with organizations that supports this hypothesis, while also showing how difficult it is to challenge workplace assumptions.
Email: lbailyn@mit.edu
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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).

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, 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.
Email: tkochan@mit.edu
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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).

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 forthcoming book, Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy (Routledge 2003), 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).

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. With the Public Conversations Project of Watertown MA, she organized a year-long series of public dialogues on these questions.
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).

Susan Cass is the Program Manager for The MIT Workplace Center and for MIT's Labor Aerospace Research Agenda. She has been the Project Coordinator for the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT for many years and as such has worked on a variety of projects including book manuscripts, meetings, publications, and web sites. Cass 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.
Email: scass@mit.edu

"Workforce and Workplace Issues for the New Century: Insights from Futurist Michael Maccoby" Perspectives on Work, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001.
"Labor and Employment Policies for a Global Economy" with James Armshaw, Perspectives on Work, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001.
"Part-Time and Nonstandard Work Arrangements," "Work Hours and Work Schedules," and "Problems at Home" Perspectives on Work, Volume 4, No. 2, 2000.
"A Balance between Family and Work" Perspectives on Work, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1999.

Forrest Briscoe is a PhD student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. His current interests concern the diversity of careers and organizational settings experienced by professional workers, including their ability to balance work with family. Currently, he is writing a dissertation examining these issues among physicians. He has previously written on the evolution of corporate health benefits, and industrial strategies toward the natural environment.
Email: fbriscoe@mit.edu

"H.R. Versus Finance: Who Controls Corporate Health Benefits Decisions and Does it Matter?" MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. (2001)
"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).

Kate Kellogg is a Ph.D. student in Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Her research examines the relationship between organizational work practices and employee work-family integration. Her work has dealt with the effect of organizational work practices on employee work-family integration and creativity, and with the consequences for workers and organizations of work practices associated with new organizational forms. She has 6 years of strategy consulting experience at Bain & Company and Health Advances, and several years of general management experience from her role as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Baltimore/Washington Region American Red Cross.
Email: kkellogg@mit.edu

Institutionalized Frenzy: Routinized Work Activities, Individual Work-Personal Life Integration, and Employee Creative Thinking Time in a Knowledge-Based Organization. Paper presented February 7 – 9, 2002 at Persons, Processes and Places: Research on Families, Workplaces and Communities Conference, San Francisco, CA.
"Is More Work from Employees Always Better for Organizations?" Exploring the Relationship between Employee Workload and Innovation Potential. With D. Merrill-Sands, unpublished (2001).
"Enacting New Ways of Organizing: Exploring the Activities and Consequences of Post-Industrial Work" With W.J. Orlikowski and J. Yates, unpublished (2002).

Brian Rubineau 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. His research examines the trade-offs individuals make when choosing among multiple job offers. His interests include understanding the social dynamics that allow discriminatory behaviors to persist in organizations.
Email: brubineau@sloan.mit.edu

"Does Planning Using Groupware Foster Coordinated Team Performance?"; With Diane Miller, Jana Price, Elliot Entin, and Linda Elliott. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 45th Annual Meeting. October 2001, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (2001).
"The Influence of Social Networks on the Transmission of Organizational Culture."; With Jeffrey Polzer, Jennifer Chatman, and Margaret Neale. Presented at the 2001 Academy of Management Conference in Washington, D.C., (2001).
"Collaborative Planning and Coordinated Team Performance." With Jana Price, Diane Miller, and Elliot Entin.In Proceedings of the 6th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium. June 19-21 2001, Annapolis, Maryland, (2001).

Jamie Browning is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center. He works a job share with Cicely Dockett. He comes from London, England. Previous to this position, he worked as a volunteer and intern coordinator at the New England Aquarium. He is married to a MIT student, and lives in a MIT co-op.
Email: jamieb@mit.edu

Cicely Dockett is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center. She is a native New Yorker and has worked for several years as an Administrative Assistant for the Healthcare industry. Before leaving New York she worked planning meetings for various pharmaceutical companies.
Email: cicelyd@mit.edu

Pablo Boczkowski is an Assistant Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He examines the joint development of organizational and technological innovation. He focuses on how firms in established industries deal with transformations in information technology that bring forth new business opportunities as well as challenges to existing products and processes. He explores this matter in a study of how the U.S. newspaper industry has tried to extend its print franchise into the area of consumer-oriented electronic publishing. Combining extensive fieldwork in the online divisions of three major daily newspapers with archival research tracking the evolution of electronic newspapering since the late 1970s, Boczkowski provides an account of how organizations change by recombining existing assets and practices into a new domain of economic activity.
Email: pjb9@mit.edu
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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 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 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

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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