Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

The School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) is an industrial relations and professional school of Rutgers University. On June 19, 1947, New Jersey Governor Alfred Driscoll signed into law legislation which formally established the Institute for Management and Labor Relations (IMLR).[1] In 1994 the Rutgers University Board of Governors approved a resolution that restructured IMLR as the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). SMLR is housed at two locations on the Cook and Livingston campuses of Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations
TypePublic
Established1947 (as the Institute of Management and Labor Relations)
1984 (as the School of Management and Labor Relations)
DeanAdrienne Eaton
Academic staff
50
Students1,597
Location
New Brunswick
,
New Jersey
,
USA
AffiliationsRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Websitewww.smlr.rutgers.edu

Programs

Rutgers' SMLR is the major source of knowledge on the fields of work, building effective and sustainable organizations, and employment relationship. The school is divided into two departments — the Human Resource Management and the Labor Studies & Employment Relations.

Centers and research

Some of the ways in which SMLR applies its expertise to help the employers and workforce of New Jersey are:

  • Center for Women and Work – research and programs that promote gender equity, and a high skill economy.
  • Center for Human Resource Strategy - created to advance the field of Human Resource Management by forging partnerships between HR faculty researchers and senior HR executives.
  • Bio-1 – SMLR played a lead role in securing a $5.1 million grant for Central New Jersey to bring bioscience educators and industry together to build a bioscience cluster
  • Rutgers Labor Management Partnership - SMLR's goal is to bring together creative minds in the New Jersey labor-management community to share ideas.
  • Occupational Training and Education Consortium – houses a group of grant-funded health, safety, environmental and workforce development projects.

Notable faculty
  • Susan Jackson, Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management, is President of the Academy of Management.[2]
  • Sue Schurman, Professor II (Labor Studies and Employment Relations) and Dean of University College Community at Rutgers, is President of the International Federation of Workers' Education Associations.[3]
  • Mark Huselid, Professor II (Human Resources Management) is a much-cited scholar in the field of organizational sciences.[4]
  • Dorothy Sue Cobble received two awards in 2010: a fellowship from the Russell Sage Foundation,[5] and winner of the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History.[6]
  • Joseph Blasi, J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor, is a renowned scholar in the topics of employee ownership & profit sharing in regards to corporate governance practices.[7]

References
  1. New Jersey Assembly Bill, 250-A, 1947
  2. "AOM Leadership Directory". apps.aomonline.org. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  3. "Events › 2010 › January › Susan Schurman". Center for American Progress. January 2010. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  4. "Mark Huselid - About Mark". www.markhuselid.com. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  5. "2010 to 2011: Dorothy Sue Cobble". RSF. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  6. "Previous Sol Stetin Award for Labor History Winners". Hillman Foundation. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  7. "The Aspen Institute". aspeninstitute.org. Retrieved November 1, 2018.

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