Faculty Publications

Julie L. Brockman, PhD

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2006).  Learning to become a machine operator: The dialogical relationship between context, self and content.  Human Resource Development Quarterly, 17(2), pp.199-221.

Brockman, J.L. and DeJonghe, E. (2006). Resolving conflict between graduate students and faculty: A two phase approach. Proceedings of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education (25th, University of Missouri-St. Louis, MO)

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2006).  The Machine Operator’s Signature: Formation of Worker Self-Identity in Problem Solving Contexts. Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development North American Conference (Columbus, Ohio).

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2005).  Learning to become a machine operator: The dialogical relationship between context, self and content.  Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development International Conference (Estes park, CO).

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2005).  Learning Through Work: What Machine Operators “Come to Know” through Everyday Problem Solving. Proceedings of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education (24th, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI)

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2004).  The Work, the Worker and the Machine: Learning through Communities of Practice in Manufacturing. Proceedings of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education (23rd, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Brockman, J. (2004). Problem solving of machine operators within the context of everyday work: Learning through relationship and community.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University.

Klomparens, K., Beck, J., Larson, R.S., and Brockman, J. (2004). Setting expectations and resolving conflicts in graduate education,  Journal for Higher Education Strategy, 2(1), 21-37.

Brockman, J.L. (2004). Problem solving of machine operators within the context of everyday work: Learning through relationship and community. Unpublished Dissertation, Michigan State University

Klomparens, K., Beck, J., Larson, R.S., and Brockman, J. (2004). Setting expectations and resolving conflicts in graduate education,  Journal for Higher Education Strategy, 2(1), 21-37.

Polzin, M.J. and Brockman, J.L. (2002).  Focus on internal partnerships: A framework for implementing community policing in a unionized department”. In M. Morash and J. K. Ford (Eds.), The move to community policing: Making change happen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Polzin, M.J and Brockman, J.L. (1999) A labor-management approach to community policing, The Journal of Community Policing, 2 (2).

Polzin, M.J and Brockman, J.L. (1999) What do police unions want?  Observations about building an infrastructure for involving unions in community policing, The Journal of Community Policing, 1, (1).

Brockman, J.L., Polzin, M.J. and Winthrop, D. (1998) Three-dimensional planning grid: A tool for planning multifaceted projects and change efforts. Executive Summary Series, Regional Community Policing Institute of Michigan, Michigan State University.

Brockman, J.L., Polzin, M.J. and Winthrop, D. (1998) A joint labor-management    approach to implementing community policing.  Executive Summary Series, Regional Community Policing Institute of Michigan, Michigan State University.

Brockman, J.L. (Green). (1986) Diffusion of innovations: The adoption and non-adoption of an information line system. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, The Ohio State University.

Gibbs, J., Clark, P., Joseph, J., Green (Brockman), J., Goodrick, T., and Makowski, D. (1986). Relations between moral judgement, moral courage, and field independence, Child Development, 57, 185-193.

Michael J. Polzin, Ed.D

Polzin, M. J and Delord, R. G. Working Together: A Police Labor-Management Practitioner’s Guide to Implementing Change, Making Reforms and Handling Crises.  Accepted for publication by  U.S. Department of Justice; publication anticipated 2006.

Havercamp, M and Polzin, M. Getting Agreement: A Community Visioning and Living Action Planning Process (CVLAPP). University of Nevada Reno Cooperative Extension Special Publication 05-24. Fall 2005. Also available on the web at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/SP05/SP0524.pdf

Polzin, M.J. The Labor Movement and Social Welfare. In Herrick, J.M. and Stuart, P. (Eds.)Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.

Polzin, M. and Berg, P. Health Care: The Case Of Sparrow Health Systems, Lansing, Michigan and Professional Employees Council of Sparrow Hospital/Michigan Nurses Association. In Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies. Richard N. Block (Editor). W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003.

Polzin, M.J.  A Labor-Management Approach to Community Policing. In NavigatingDangerous Waters: Surviving in the Real World of Police Labor-Management Relations.  Accepted for publication by U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Policing Services, Fall 2003.

Polzin, M. J. and Brockman, J. L., Focus on Internal Partnerships: A Framework for Implementing Community Policing in a Unionized Department. In The Transformation to Community Oriented Policing: Strategies for Change, Morash, M. and Ford, J.K. eds. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2002.

Polzin, M.J. Review of: Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America’s Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929 - 1981 by Amy Sue Bix.   Labor Studies Journal.  Volume 26, No. 2, Summer 2001.

Block, R., Berg, P., Moore, M. , and Polzin, M.  Collective Bargaining, Employment Security, and Firm Competitiveness in the United States. Paper presented at the Industrial Relations Research Association Annual Meeting 2001, New Orleans, LA.  January 2001.

Polzin, M.J. Building and Maintaining Labor-Management Partnerships: Training Internal Third Party Facilitators. In Local 2089 (AFGE) Journal (representing U.S. Department of Labor Employees). Winter 2000.

Polzin, M. J. and Brockman, J.L., A Labor-Management Approach to Community Policing.  The Journal of Community Policing, Volume 1, No. 2, Autumn 1999.

McHugh, P., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. and Polzin, M. J., Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Union Influence and Stakeholder Interests, Economic and Industrial Democracy, November 1999, Volume 20, pp. 535 B 560.

Block, R. N., Berg, P., Moore, M., and Polzin, M. J., The Contribution of Collective Bargaining to Employment Protection or Creation and Competitiveness, a study supported by the International Labor Organization under contract number 5453.  October 1999.

Polzin, M. J. and Brockman, J. L., What Do Police Unions Want? Observations about Building an Infrastructure for Involving Unions in Community Policing, The Journal of Community Policing, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 1999.

Polzin, M. J., Review of Employee Suggestion Systems: Boosting Productivity and Profits by Bassford, R. L. and Martin, C. L.  in Human Resource Planning, Volume 21.3: 1998.

McHugh, P., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. and Polzin, M. J., Ways in Which Structure and Process Matter: Employee Influence, Plan Design and Communication in ESOP Companies. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Boston, August 1997.

Polzin, M. J., Factors that Motivate Workers to Participate in Workplace Decision Making. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Temple University, November 1990

Polzin, M. J., A Study of Employee Ownership in Michigan, Michigan Governor's Office for Job Training, Lansing, Michigan, October 1990.

Polzin, M. J. and Abramowitz, A., A Union Member's Guide to Corporate Finance.  Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 1987.