Work and Employment Relations NETWORK

History

The Network was founded 10 years ago by Thomas A. Kochan, MIT Professor and former President of the Industrial Relations Research Association (LERA), as an interest group of the LERA and as a way to share research on work and employment relations.  Hirsch Cohen and Gail Pesyna of the Sloan Foundation provided initial support for the formation of this network. Before April 2003, the Network was called the “Human Resources (HR) Network.”

 

Tom Kochan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thomas A. Kochan is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. In 1993 he was appointed to President Clinton's Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations, which investigated methods to improve productivity and global competitiveness of the American workplace. From 1992-1995, he served as President of the International Industrial Relations Association. He served as President of the LERA in 1999.

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