Report of the Industrial Relations Program for 2003-04

Submitted by Peter F. Orazem, Director

 

A.        Graduates, 2003-2004 Academic Year

 

We graduated nine students during the year, the same number as last year.

 

Summer 2003

Elvira Malafeeva Analyst II, H&R Block, Kansas City, MO

Yan Wu seeking employment, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada

Lu (Tiffany) Wang, RA, University of Iowa Actuarial Science PhD Program

Linda Bernholtz Walgreens, Des Moines, IA

Robin Pecsi, HR Supervisor, Ingram Entertainment Inc, Des Moines, IA

Laura Schinnow, Director of Alternative Education, Iowa Valley Community College, Marshalltown, IA.

 

Fall 2003

Juan Hernandez, Capacity Building Assistance Coordinator Farmworker Justice Fund, Washington, DC.

 

 

Spring 2004

Jill Rutz, HR Generalist, Aegon Corporation, Cedar Rapids, IA

Kari Ruba, HR Specialist, Iowa State University Athletic Department

 

B.        Students on Financial Assistance, Fall 2002- Spring 2003

Eight students were on assistantships during the 2002-2003 academic year.  Students on financial assistance paid through the Graduate College are listed in bold.  Tami Partlow left after one semester after receiving a full-time job offer in South Dakota.

 

Xi (Tracy) Chen ¼ time, Fall 2003-Spring 2004

 

Congcong (Carol) Luo ¼ time, Fall 2003-Spring 2004

 

Marisol King ½ time, Fall 2003-Spring 2004, paid by Minority Student Affairs

 

Tami Partlow, ¼ time, Fall 2003. 

 

Sameera Pinto,   ¼ time, Fall 2003-Spring 2004

 

Jill Rutz ½ time, Fall 2003- Spring 2004, paid by Placement Office

 

Yulan Shen, ¼ time, Fall 2003-Spring 2004

 

William Strunk, ¼ time, Fall 2003-Spring 2004

 

C.        Research Reports on Studies Using Industrial Relations Research Assistance

Sameera Pinto worked with Max Wortman conducting Library searches on the topic, “Comparative Performance Appraisals in India and the U.S.” and has evolved into a study of:

“An Examination of 360 Performance Appraisal Methods Through Meta-Analysis and Conceptualizing  a New Framework for 360 Degree Performance Appraisal.”  Work is ongoing.

 

Marisol King has been involved in data preparation and date entry for an interdisciplinary project with Brad SHrader and Jeffrey Kaufman examining the contextual and policy factors influencing student cheating in the classroom.  She helped prepare open-ended student responses to questions about cheating for input to a qualitative analysis software template. Project is now moving to adapt qualitative data into quantitative form for analysis this fall. 

 

Congcong (Carol) Luo assisted Terry Besser in gathering, organizing, and verifying information about new state prisons.  She contacted the Departments of Corrections in the 48 contiguous states in the U.S. for information about all new state prisons (date of opening, location, capacity, level of security).  Then all this information was verified as much as possible through the Association of American Corrections Professionals directory of prison information.  All data was entered into a data base containing census information about all towns in the 48 states.  Paper is now under review.

 

William Strunk  has been involved two projects; first, he has continued to conduct research on public sector union incentive options (particularly Scanlon and gainsharing plans), which will also form the basis of his creative component. He has also been instrumental in supporting work with Anthony Townsend, James McElroy and others into the relationship between personality and technology.

 

D. Grants

Terry Besser, “Responding to Shocks: A Longitudinal Study of Rural Communities' Quality of Life.” With Vern Ryan and Kerry Agnitsch. $210,247. USDA National Research Initiative grant. 

 

Peter Orazem, “Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency.” $10,000. William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan.

 

Peter Orazem, “Child Labor, School Attendance and Achievement.” $8,000.  International Labour Organization

 

Brad Shrader.  “Web enabled cases.” With David Russell and David Fisher.

$25,000.  ISU Miller Grant.

 

Max S. Wortman, Jr.  “An Evaluation of the ‘Shaping the Future Program of the Small Business Development Program, 1990-2000.”$7,800, Pappajohn Center, College of Business, and Department of Management

 

E. Publications

Arboleda, A., Morrow, P.C., Crum, M.R., and Shelley II, M.C.  2003.  Management practices as antecedents of safety culture within the trucking industry: Similarities and differences by hierarchical level.  Journal of Safety Research, 34: 189-197.

Alderman, Harold, Jooseop Kim and Peter F. Orazem. “Design, Evaluation, and Sustainability of Private Schools for the Poor: The Pakistan Urban and Rural Fellowship School Experiments.”  Economics of Education Review 22 (June 2003):265-274.

Besser, Terry L. 2003. "An Elaboration of the Significance of Producer Service Businesses to Rural Communities." Rural Sociology. 68 (4):531-553.

Bird, Sharon R. “Sex Composition, Masculinities and the Quality of Men’s Workplace Social Relations Gender, Work and Organization. (November 2003).

Bird, Sharon R. 2003. “De-Gendering Practice/Practicing De-Gendering.” Gender & Society 17(3)367-369.

Coyle-Shapiro, J. A-M. and Morrow, P.C.  2003.  The role of individual differences in employee adoption of TQM orientation.  Journal of Vocational Behavior, 62: 341-356.

Erhardt, N. L., Werbel, J. D. and Shrader, C. B.  Board of director diversity and firm financial performance. Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 11, no. 2, 2003, pp. 102-111.

Jones Carr, C. M., Shrader, C. B., Crum, M. R. and Flynn, E. J. 2003. “Predicting decision-maker momentum to change offerings in response to uncertainty: The case of the U.S. Customs Modification Act.” Journal of Business Strategies, Vol. 20, no.2, (Fall): 95-118.

 

Kang, Gi Choon and Peter F. Orazem.  2003. “The Relative Importance of Aggregate and Disaggregate Shocks in Korean Business Cycles.”  Journal of Asian Economics. 14 (June): 419-434.

 

Koppenhaver, G. D. and Shrader, C. B. 2003. “Structuring the classroom for performance: Cooperative learning with instructor-assigned teams.” Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 1, No. 1: 1-21.

 

Lin, Chun-Hung A. and Peter F. Orazem. 2003. "Wage Inequality and Returns to Skill in Taiwan, 1978-96."  The Journal of Development Studies 39 (June): 89-108.

 

Liu, Qiaoming Amy and Terry L. Besser. 2003. "Social Capital and Participation in Community Improvement Activities by the Elderly in Small Towns and Rural Communities." Rural Sociology. 68 (3):343 –365.

 

Miller, Nancy J and Terry L. Besser. 2003. “Investigating Small Community Influences on U.S. Entrepreneurs’ Goals, Business Strategies, and Success.” The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. (August): 149-161.

Miller, Nancy M., Terry L. Besser, LuAnn Gaskill, and Steve Sapp. 2003. "Community and Managerial Predictors of Performance in Small Rural U.S. Retail and Service Firms." The Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 10 (4):215-231.

Orazem, Peter F., James D. Werbel and James McElroy,2003. “Market Expectations, Job Search, and Gender Differences in Starting Pay.”  Journal of Labor Research 24 (Spring): 307-321.

 

Shrader, C. B. 2003. Instructor's Case Notes, Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, fifth edition, by M. Hitt, D. Ireland and R. Hoskisson, South-Western.

 

Shrader, C. B., Rallis, S. and Twenter, J. 2003.  Stew Leonard's Dairy. Case originally published in Business Case Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, winter, 1996, pp.25-35.  Reprinted in Kuratko and Hodgett's Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, and Practice. Sixth Edition, South-Western/Thompson Learning.

 

Townsend, A.M. and Bennett, J.T. (2003). Information Technology and Employment Law: Challenges in an Evolving Workplace. Journal of Labor Research, 24 (3): 425-435.

 

Townsend, A.M. and Bennett, J.T. (2003). A Perfect Market: Living and Bidding in an Auction Economy. Communications of the ACM, 46 (12): 351-353.

 

Townsend, A.M. and Bennett, J.T. (2003). Privacy, Technology, and Policy: Emerging Issues and Action in Workplace Privacy. Journal of Labor Research, 24 (2): 195-205.

 

F. Industrial Relations News

  • James McElroy was named University Professor.
  • James McElroy was appointed Associate Dean in the College of Business.
  • Paula Morrow  received the 2003 College of Business Research Award.
  • Peter Orazem  was named University Professor.
  • Peter Orazem reaceived the 2003 University International Service Award.
  • Sue Ravenscroft was keynote speaker at the British Accounting Association meeting of the Education Special Interest Group in Bournemouth England.
  • Sue Ravenscroft was promoted to Full Professor as of July 1, 2003.
  • C, Brad Shrader (with J. D. Hunger) 1984 publication in the Case Research Journal on Walt Disney Productions was named a classic case of distinction.
  • C. Brad Shrader was named Business Council Teacher of the Month, April, 2003.
  • C. Brad Shrader was named Most Effective Instructor by the ISU Academic Success Center.
  • William Woodman was named University Professor
  • Max Wortman elected an Inaugural Fellow of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association
  • Max Wortman was awarded the Max S. Wortman, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship.   This was the first time the award was granted and is named after Max Wortman.

 

In their June 2004 meeting, the Iowa Board of Regents approved the plan to discontinue the ISU Master’s program in Industrial Relations, citing loss of faculty and staff positions critical to the future quality of the program.  All current students will be allowed sufficient time to complete their programs.  The program will cease to exist after the Spring 2008 term.