Haas School of Business

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	George Strauss Professor Emeritus 510-643-7080 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: Emeritus Office Hours: By appointment LinkedIn Profile

Education

BA, Swarthmore College
PhD, Economics and Social Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Positions Held

At Haas since 1960
1992 - present, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business
1961 - 1991, Professor, Haas School of Business
1959 - 1961, Professor, University of Buffalo
1957 - 1959, Associate Professor, University of Buffalo
1954 - 1957, Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo
1951 - 1954, Research Associate (post-doc), Cornell University

Visiting Positions

University of Sydney, Cardiff, Western Australia and Trier Fulbright Scholar, Australia

External Service and Assignments

Member, Mayor’s Budget Committee, City of Berkeley
Editor, Industrial Relations
Member or former member of following editorial boards: Industrial Relations, Human Relations, New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Human Resources Management, International Journal of Employment Studies

Current Research and Interests

Internal union government
Comparative industrial relations
History of organizational behavior

Selected Papers and Publications

"HRM in the US: Correcting Some British Impressions." International Journal of Human Resources Management 12 (2001) 873.
"What’s Happening Inside US Unions: Democracy and Union Politics." Journal of Labor Research 21 (1999): 211-226.
Human Resources Policy, with L. Sayles. Dame, 1999.
Organizational Participation: Myth or Reality, with F. Heller, E. Pusic, and B. Wilpert. Oxford, 1999.
"Issues in Union Structure," edited by S. Bacharach. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 12 (1994): 1.
"Present at the Beginning: Some Personal Notes on OB’s Early Days and Later," in Management Laureates, edited by A. Bedeian. JAI Press, 1993.
"Against the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union Leaders: 1984-2001," with Marshall Ganz, Kim Voss, Teresa Sharpe and Carl Somers, in Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers, edited by Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss. Cornell: 2004.
Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods of Studying Industrial Relations, with K. Whitfield. Cornell, 1998.

Honors and Awards

A.J. Marrow Award, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1953
Fellow, Academy of Management
Berkeley Citation

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