Fortune, January 25, 2012, Wednesday

Fortune

January 25, 2012, Wednesday

Fortune (full article)

Internal competition at work: Worth the trouble?

No, collaboration seems to be the word of choice for management experts and informed CEOs alike. "Collaboration is fundamentally the best approach towards management," says Michael Serino, executive director of Human Capital Development at Cornell's Industrial and Labor Relations School. Whether it's accurate or not, most people in business today tend to believe that collaborative work delivers better results.

In These Times, January 24, 2012, Tuesday

In These Times

January 24, 2012, Tuesday

In These Times (full article)

Center for Union Facts Steps Up $10 Million Ad Campaign Backing Broad Anti-Union Bill

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education at Cornell University, questions CUF’s math and its logic. “Does North Korea have Duty of Fair Representation?” retorts Bronfenbrenner, referring to unions’ obligation under federal law to represent members without discrimination. “No other institution has that standard…Union records are open, all officers are elected, and all contracts are voted on.”

The Maine Campus, January 19, 2012, Thursday

The Maine Campus

January 19, 2012, Thursday

The Maine Campus (full article)

Part-time faculty union to enter mediation with system over contract

“Tenured and tenure-track faculty are now a minority of higher-education faculty nationwide,” Ronald Ehrenberg, a professor of industrial and labor relations and economics at Cornell University, recently wrote on a forum at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website. “Salaries for [part-time] positions are much lower than those of tenured and tenure-track faculty.”

Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2012, Tuesday

Los Angeles Times

January 17, 2012, Tuesday

Los Angeles Times (full article)

New ads reignite fight over Keystone XL jobs figures

“That’s part of the mystery. The number 20,000, which has been the most widely cited number, refers to direct jobs. That number is unsubstantiated. No study has actually claimed or supported those numbers,” says Sean Sweeney, director of Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute.

The Courier, January 17, 2012, Tuesday

The Courier

January 17, 2012, Tuesday

The Courier (full article)

NFL Players Association urges Cooper to end worker lockout

"It won't fundamentally change the relationship," said Harry Katz, dean of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations School. "Football players don't have a direct financial relationship with Cooper Tire."

Business News Daily, January 17, 2012, Tuesday

Business News Daily

January 17, 2012, Tuesday

Business News Daily (full article)

Power Makes People Feel Taller

This is the first research showing there is a physical experience that comes with being powerful, said Jack Goncalo, associate professor of organizational behavior at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. "Although a great deal of research has shown that physically imposing individuals are more likely to acquire power, this work is the first to show that the powerful may actually feel taller than they are," Goncalo writes in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science.

Salon, January 14, 2012, Saturday

Salon

January 14, 2012, Saturday

Salon (full article)

The evolution of American debt

In his new book, “Borrow: The American Way of Debt,” Cornell professor Louis Hyman writes, in essence, a biography of American debt. He traces debt through American history: from the late 19th century, when unpaid dues meant public ignominy, to the 1920s, when the auto industry changed the face of borrowing to the mortgage fallouts that led the Great Depression to the invention of the credit card as we now know it, all the way to the current shambles of our national economic livelihood.

New York Times, January 13, 2012, Friday

New York Times

January 13, 2012, Friday

New York Times (full article)

New Laws Now Evaluated by Job Creation

Prof. John M. Abowd, a labor economist at Cornell, said that “labor markets are hugely dynamic,” with large numbers of jobs being created and destroyed even when the total level of employment stays roughly the same. For this reason, he said, it is often difficult to tell whether spending for a specific purpose directly creates jobs.

CQ Researcher, January 13, 2012, Friday

CQ Researcher

January 13, 2012, Friday

CQ Researcher (full article)

'Occupy' Movement

“For years, people were saying, ‘When are the pitchforks going to come out? When are people are going to get mad?’ But no one was doing anything,” says Ken Margolies, director of organizing programs at Cornell University's Industrial Labor Relations School. “The Occupy movement caught the imagination of the country.”

Times Ledger, January 13, 2012, Friday

Times Ledger

January 13, 2012, Friday

Times Ledger (full article)

Nurses slam Flushing Hospital for suspending pension

Ken Margolies, of the Cornell School of Industrial Labor Relations, called the hospital’s refusal to sign an interim agreement “slightly aggressive.”

“It’s normal, when parties are in negotiations, to maintain the status quo,” he said. “But things like that are becoming less unusual because more and more employers are playing hardball.”

WBEN, January 11, 2012, Wednesday

WBEN

January 11, 2012, Wednesday

WBEN

Art Wheaton was interviewed by WBEN discussing the Detroit North American International Auto Show and which vehicles would have the most impact on WNY jobs.

In These Times, January 10, 2012, Tuesday

In These Times

January 10, 2012, Tuesday

In These Times (full article)

With Romney’s Backing, New Hampshire GOP Pushes Right to Work Again

“It’s a myth that Right to Work stops organizing,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research at Cornell's ILR School. “But it does hurt unions.” Once “Right to Work” creates an option to pay nothing for union representation, Bronfenbrenner says managers often employ many of the same illegal tactics they’d use during an organizing campaign – threats, bribes, interrogations – to convince workers to choose that option. Once the number of dues-payers drops to a minority, a public- or private-sector employer has a pretext to force a new election or announce it’s withdrawing union recognition.

Reuters, January 6, 2012, Friday

Reuters

January 6, 2012, Friday

Reuter (Full interview)

Economist reflects on the nation's current job landscape.

Cornell economist John Abowd reflects on the nation's current job landscape.

The New York Times, January 6, 2012, Friday

The New York Times

January 6, 2012, Friday

The New York Times (full article)

Labor Board Backs Workers on Joint Arbitration Cases

“This is a big deal,” said Professor Alex Colvin, an expert on mandatory arbitration agreements who teaches at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. “Mandatory arbitration agreements are so widespread, and this would suggest that many of them violate labor law by barring class actions. I also think the business community will be up in arms because you have federal labor law being applied in a nonunion setting.”

The Nation, January 4, 2012, Wednesday

The Nation

January 4, 2012, Wednesday

The Nation (full article)

Labor Takes Aim at Walmart—Again

National labor law broadly protects nonunion worker activities, including collective actions and even nonunion strikes. “In a nonunion situation, the employers do not have to agree to what these groups demand, but if the employer retaliates, there is a right to file an unfair practice charge and the NLRB would enforce it,” says Lance Compa, a professor of labor relations at Cornell University.

Daily Mail, January 3, 2012, Tuesday

Daily Mail

January 3, 2012, Tuesday

Daily Mail (full article)

Powerful people think they're taller than they really are, claim researchers

Some might think it’s merely a tall tale – but researchers have found that the more powerful you are, the taller you think you are.

Michelle Duguid from Washington University in St Louis and Jack Goncalo from Cornell University in New York conditioned volunteers into feeling empowered before testing them in three experiments on height perception.

WorldatWork's workspan magazine, January 2012

WorldatWork's workspan magazine

January 2012

An monthly column in workspan® applying scholarly research to the "real world" by ICS Director Kevin Hallock.

Nothing Lasts Forever - A Different Way to Structure Severance
When things go awry, tapered CEO severance makes sense

Clear Waters, January 2012

Clear Waters

January 2012

Clear Waters (full article)

Shift Work and Working Long Hours: Risks and Risk Reduction

Article by Nellie J. Brown.

Bloomberg, December 21, 2011, Wednesday

Bloomberg

December 21, 2011, Wednesday

Bloomberg (full article)

Cornell’s $350 Million Donor Feeney Plans to Give It All Away

Cornell has been among the biggest beneficiaries, receiving almost $1 billion, including the gift announced Dec. 16 that will help pay for an engineering campus in New York City. Feeney graduated from Cornell’s school of hotel administration in 1956 and has helped pay for buildings, scholarships and research at the main campus in Ithaca, New York, for decades, said Ron Ehrenberg, an economist and former university vice president.