Faculty List

John Beck
Associate Director, Labor Education Program
Phone: (517) 432-3982
Email:beckj@msu.edu
Office: 432 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824
Outreach faculty member in the Labor Education Program.

Dale Belman
Associate Dir & Professor PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Phone: (517) 353-3905    
Email: drdale@msu.edu
Office: 408 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in Labor Markets and Data Sources in LIR.

Peter  Berg
Associate Professor PhD, Economics, University of Notre Dame.
Phone: (517) 432-4771    
Email: bergp@msu.edu
Office: 411 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in Collective Bargaining, and International Industrial Relations/Human Resources Systems and PhD seminars.

His research centers on high performance work systems, and comparative human resource practices.

Richard  Block
Interim Director and Professor PhD, Labor and Industrial Relations, Cornell University.
Phone: (517) 353-3896    
Email: block@msu.edu
Office: 428 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824
http://www.msu.edu/user/block

Teaches courses in Collective Bargaining, and Labor Law.
Web address for Dr. Block's courses: http://www.msu.edu/user/block

His research centers on issues related to union administration; the relationship between industrial relations law and practice; labor arbitration; government sponsored training programs; and industrial relations comparisons between the United States and Canada or Japan.

Julie Brockman
Asst Professor PhD, Higher Adult and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
Phone: (517) 432-4772   
Email: brockma4@msu.edu
Office: 416 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824
Outreach faculty member in the Labor Education and the Program on Innovative Employment Relations Systems.

Jim Dulebohn 
Associate Professor PhD, Human Resource Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Phone: (517) 432-3984    
Email: dulebohn@msu.edu
Office: 412 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in Human Resource Strategies & Decisions and Human Resources Information Systems.

His research includes examining employee decision making, compensation and benefits, human resource information systems, and influence tactics and fairness evaluations in human resource systems.

Teaches courses in Collective Bargaining.

Michelle Kaminski
Asst Professor PhD, University of Michigan
Phone: (517) 432-0933 
Email: mkaminsk@msu.edu
Office: 413 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824
Outreach faculty member in the Labor Education Program.

Teaches courses in Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Strategies and Decisions, and Globalization &Diversity.

Her research focuses on human resource innovations, work/family initiatives, and workforce diversity.

M. Catherine Lundy
Professor, Labor Education Program
Phone: (517) 290-3234 cell
Email: lundy@msu.edu
Office: 415 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824
Outreach faculty member in the Labor Education Program.
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Teaches labor relations in the health care industry.

Edilberto Montemayor
Associate Professor PhD, University of Minnesota
Phone: (517) 432-2800
Email: montema1@msu.edu
Office: 402A SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in compensation and benefits, quantitative methods, HR strategic partners.

Michael  Moore
Professor PhD, Business Administration, University of Michigan.
Phone: (517) 432-2801    
Email: mooremm@msu.edu
Office: 424 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in Compensation & Benefits Systems, Human Resource Information Systems, and High Performance Work Systems.

His research focuses on the labor relations and human resource management system issues when companies change from mass production to lean production modes of manufacturing. He also studies parallel organizations and organizational implications of large systems change.

Mike Polzin
Asst Professor, EdD, Adult Education, Temple University
Phone:(517) 432-1288   Email: polzinm@msu.edu
Office: 418 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Outreach faculty member in the Labor Education and the Program on Innovative Employment Relations Systems. Teaches courses in Training and Development (on-line) in the graduate program and teaches courses on Globalization and the Implications for Workers in the Modern Labor Concepts undergraduate certificate program offered to the United Auto Workers. He also coordinates the Police Union Executive Leadership Program.

John Revitte
Professor, Faculty Grievance Officer
Phone: (517) 353-8884 
Email: revitte@msu.edu
Office: 417 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Tina Riley
Asst Professor
PhD, Higher Adult and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
Phone: (517) 432-6267
Email: robert35@msu.edu
Office: 421 A SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Outreach faculty member in the Human Resources Education and Training Center.

Mark  Roehling
Assc Professor PhD, Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management, Michigan State University.
JD, University of Michigan
Phone: (517) 355-3335    
Email: roehling @msu.edu
Office: 429 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in Training & Development and Staffing.

His research includes recruiting and job choice, employee relations, (e.g., the psychological contract construct, the changing nature of employment); interdisciplinary studies in HRM/OB and the law (e.g., employer and employee perceptions of legal constraints and the impact of their perceptions on organizational behavior and HRM practices, reviews integrating HRM/OB and legal perspectives).

Philip SmithProfessor
Phone: (517) 3539019   
Email: phlsmith@msu.edu

Ed Welch
Professor, Director Workers Compensation Center
Phone: (517) 432-7727    
Email: welche@msu.edu
Office: 421 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824

Teaches courses in Law of Labor-Management Relations, Grievance Administration & Arbitration, and Employment Law.

His teaching and research interests are in the areas of labor and employment law, grievance administration, and industrial relations.

Elaine  Yakura
Associate Professor PhD, Organization Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Phone: (517) 353-5158    
Email: yakura@msu.edu
Office: 436 SKH, MSU, E. Lansing, MI 48824
http://msu.edu/~yakura/

Teaches courses in Organizational Development & Planned Change and Negotiation & Conflict Resolution.

Her research interests include the study of power and difference in organizations, and her fieldwork includes studies of consultants, nuclear power plants in Japan and the U.S., and high-technology organizations.