Teresa Cardador represented the School as part of the Campus Insights presentation on March 11. Her presentation is featured here: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/807570.
Dean Drasgow, with co-authors Sasha Chernyshenko, Steve Stark, Chris Nye and Len White, received the International Personnel Assessment Council Innovations in Assessment Award for their work on the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS).
Michael LeRoy was a panelist/speaker at the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law Symposium on. He spoke in the session “Safeguarding Student-Athletes: Employment Protections and College Sports.”
Steven Merkin was award the first annual HRMAC Heart Award by the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago.
Michael LeRoy was interviewed by the Illinois New Bureau on protections for no-show workers during a pandemic: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/807509?rn=0326T084544&fbclid=IwAR2nmZtEjS0CndrzvYkN3CHIUPDYDl0gfzf-pLaoD2RdQb9mNqAH6SM2t7M
Bob Bruno was quoted in the Chicago Tribune concerning McDonald’s, Walmart and other companies with hourly worker and how the coronavirus aid changing sick time policies: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-paid-sick-time-hourly-20200310-kbv7of3ur5g6foxnrufa5gp2lm-story.html
Eliza Forsythe was quoted by CBS Chicago on their reporting of COVID 19 and the lack of funding in Illinois to fund all unemployment filings: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/04/02/amid-record-unemployment-filings-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-illinois-does-not-have-money-to-fund-all-claims/
Michael LeRoy recently published, “The President’s Immigration Powers: Migratory Labor and Racial Animus,” in NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Vol. 75, No. 2 (2020), pp. 187-254. He also had a new paper accepted for publication. It is “Whitewashing Coaching Racism in NCAA Sports: Enforcing Civil Rights through the Ku Klux Klan Act,” Sports and Entertainment Law Journal (forthcoming).
JooHee Han (Post-Doc with PMCR) recently published his article ‘Does Skin Tone Matter? Immigrant Mobility in the U.S. Labor Market at Demography. You can read more about it here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-020-00867-7
Bobby Chung (Post-Doc with PMCR) recently published his article ‘Peers’ parents and educational attainment: The exposure effect’ in Labour Economics. You can read more about it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092753712030018Xfbclid=IwAR1RTzFAT8lA7BOPIwj98EW2yxEKLNdEt7Y_vdFH5D7dilyJMLdMtL141Hk#!
Amit Kramer was interviewed as an expert for the WalletHub article “Best States for Working from Home.” The article is online at: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-for-working-from-home/72801/#expert=amit-kramer
Emily Labarbera-Twarog received a Lemann Collaborative Research Grant for 2020-21 from the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies on the Illinois campus. She will be working with a research partner in Brazil, Dr. Eliza Fruhauf Garcia, Associate Professor of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, on a research project titled, “Gender Violence and the Woman Worker in Brazil and the US.”
Richard A. Benton received the LERA/ILR Review Best Paper Competition Award at this year’s LERA National Meeting during the virtual ceremony in June.
Allison Dickson will receive the Field Builder Award in June from the Chicago Jobs Council (CJC). Every year CJC gives this award to a person who has done the most to educate and advocate for low-wage workers.
Michael LeRoy was interviewed for a 20-minute live radio Segment on KCBS San Francisco for their daily “Ask an Expert” segment. The segment on that day was on employment law issues. Michael was also interviewed that day for KGO-TV, San Francisco, relating to refusing work, in the context of the dental hygienists. He was also interviewed for an article in Sports Illustrated as a part of a larger article titled: “Group Licensing Is the Key to the Return of NCAA Video Games-So What’s the Holdup?” https://www.si.com/college/2020/05/05/ncaa-football-video-game-return-group-licensing.
Michael LeRoy presented, with two other attorneys, in a webinar for the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys in June. The webinar covered looked at emerging COVID19 liability issues for hospitals and medical practitioners.
Andrew Weaver won a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for his project “Longitudinal Predictors of Skill Demands in Targeted U.S. Industries.” He will examine the nature of skill requirements by linking detailed establishment-level data on skill requirements and organizational characteristics with longitudinal Census microdata on the same establishments in order to shed light on the relationship between establishment-level practices, such as technology investments and management policies, and demands for precise skills such as math, reading, computer programming, and a host of other cognitive and soft skills. The research design involves three nationally representative skill surveys that cover manufacturing production workers, IT helpdesk technicians, and laboratory technologists.
Amit Kramer and Karen Kramer published an Editorial in Journal of Vocational Behavior titled “The potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on occupational status, work from home, and occupational mobility.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879120300671
Simon Restubog, with two coauthors, published an Editorial in Journal of Vocational Behavior titled “Taking control amidst the chaos: Emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.” It can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879120300658
YoungAh Park, Yihao Liu, and Lucy Headrick have published their article “When work is wanted after hours: Testing weekly stress of information communication technology demands using boundary theory” in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
YoungAh Park has published her article” Put you down versus tune you out: Further understanding active and passive email incivility” in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology with Z. Yuan and M. Sliter. YoungAh Park also published “Defrag and reboot? Consolidating information and communication technology research in I-O psychology” in the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice with X. Hu, K.L .Barber and A. Day.
Richard Benton and Ki-Jung Kim had their paper titled "The Dependency Structure of Bad Jobs: How Market Constraint Undermines Job Quality", accepted for publication in ILR Review.
Emily Labarbera-Twarog received funding from the IGI and WGGP to develop a synchronous online class, LER 199 – Global Women Workers in 21st Century. This course explores the evolution over time of the social, political, and economic construction of the “woman worker.” She will use a series of 21st century case studies – from countries like Turkey, India, Brazil, Cambodia, England, Nigeria, US, and South Africa. She will explore how various global institutions rely on the perpetuation of gender imbalances as well as how the public and private lives of women are defined by social construction and capitalism.
Daniel A. Newman has received the 2020 Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. The award recognizes the single most significant published paper in research methodology from the preceding five-year period. Dan’s winning paper is titled "Missing Data: Five Practical Guidelines", and was published in the journal Organizational Research Methods. The award announcement stated that this “... is one of the most important contributions to the organizational sciences over the last 10 years. It systematically addresses a problem that is ubiquitous in the organizational sciences, but does so in a manner that is both accessible and practical.”
Yun Kyoung (Gail) Kim, Amit Kramer, and Sunjin Pak’s paper, “Job Insecurity and Subjective Sleep Quality: The Role of Spillover and Gender," has been accepted for publication in Stress and Health.
Amit Kramer has had another paper accepted for publication with Seonghee Cho and Ravi Gajendran. The title of the paper is “A 12-Year Longitudinal Study Linking Within-Person Changes in Work and Family Transitions and Workplace Injury Risk,” and it will be published in Journal of Safety Research.
JooHee Han, a LEP Project for Middle Class Renewal post-doc, joined the University of Oslo, Norway, Department of Sociology and Human Geography this fall as a post-doc. He will be working on immigrants' assimilation in workplaces using the Norway Linked Employer-Employee data and on international comparative organizational inequality research projects.
Dan Newman and his former graduate student coauthors published "Gender and Leadership Emergence: A Meta-Analysis and Explanatory Model," that has been selected for the 2020 “William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award: Honorable Mention” from the Society for I/O Psychology (SIOP). This honorable mention award is given to the second-best "publication in a refereed journal judged to have the highest potential to have an impact the field of I-O psychology," and the award includes a plaque and a cash prize.
Yihao Liu recently has his paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The paper titled “I am nice and capable! How and when newcomers’ self-presentation to their supervisors affects socialization outcomes” is available online at: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-63532-001
Dan Gilbert and his wife, Amanda, welcomed Frances Marie Ciafone-Gilbert.