Scholars from Around the World
Visiting fellows and lecturers at ILR this semester are from Canada, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Germany, China and Bangladesh, according to Robin Remick, managing director of ILR International Programs.
The fellows and lecturers include:
Soo Ryun Cha of South Korea. A trade union leader who was elected president of the Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union in 2000, she has also served as vice-present of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. Her major research interests are the structure of industrial unions and collective bargaining, dispute resolution, and unions' participation in management and job training programs. She is also interested in social issues such as the responses by United States' industrial unions to privatize the health and medical sector, and their efforts to enhance the public nature of health and medical services. Cha will be at ILR through August. Her faculty sponsor is Risa Lieberwitz.
Dejun Cheng of China. He is an associate professor at the School of Business, Nanjing University, China. Cheng's current research looks at high performance work systems, employment relationships and knowledge management. Cheng is conducting a research project entitled, "How High Performance Work System Affect the Social Network and Corporation Performance in Chinese Culture." At ILR, Cheng will focus on how high performance work systems affect the social network in the Chinese banking industry. Cheng will be at ILR through August. His faculty sponsor is Harry Katz.
Yoon-hyung Cho of South Korea. A former research fellow at Hyundai Research Institute in Korea, his major research interests are cross-cultural differences in a global economy, leadership, organizational changes at the workplace, and strategies for conflict resolution. A more recent area of interest is trust building in business negotiations that changes strategies of integrative bargaining, contingent workers' employability and psychological contracts. During his stay at ILR through August, he will research effective industrial education systems and social relations. Cho will be here through August. His faculty sponsor is Ed Lawler.
Kang-Shik Choi of South Korea. A professor at Yonsei University, School of Economics, in Seoul, Korea, he teaches labor economics and personnel economics. He is interested in investment in human capital, impacts of technological change on earnings distribution, as well as gender gap in the labor market. During his stay at ILR, he is interested in working on the comparison of technological change impact on wages in the self-employed and in wage workers; gender gaps in science and engineering occupations, and comparison of gender discrimination between the self-employed and paid workers. He will be at ILR through August 2010. His faculty sponsor is Gary Fields.
Jamie Cross of the United Kingdom. An anthropologist who works on processes of industrialization and social transformation in South Asia, Cross's research interests span the disciplines of anthropology, development, industrial sociology and labor studies. His current research project explores the social politics of flexible production and labor organization inside India's special economic zones. Jamie will teach an ILR course this semester on "Work, Labor and Management in Contemporary India." Cross is sponsored by the International & Comparative Labor Department.
Benoit Dostie of Montreal, Canada. An associate professor at HEC Montréal, the business school affiliated with l'Université de Montréal, Dostie also holds the school's L.M. Sauvé professorship for the analysis of workplace and their employees. His research interests include statistical models for linked employer-employee data, duration models, returns to human capital, firm-sponsored training, matching model of the labor market, firm performance and turnover. Benoit will be at ILR through July. His faculty sponsor is John Abowd.
Jakir Hossain of Bangladesh. Hossain is an assistant professor at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and a doctoral candidate at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy. At ILR, he is working on a research project entitled, "Trade-linked Labor Standards, Workers' Rights and the Politics of (Mis) Representing Bangladesh's Garment Workers." It examines the interplay between labor standards, workers' rights, and economic security that shape the translation of labor standards into workers' rights and the impact that these rights have on improving economic security for the working poor. Hossain will be at ILR through June. His faculty sponsor is Sarosh Kuruvilla.
Sophia Hu of Taiwan. Hu is an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Business in Ming-Chuan University in Taipei, Taiwan. Hu's research focuses on compensation, performance management, competency and talents development. She is particularly interested in reward allocation decisions in cross-culture studies. During her ILR stay, which extends through July, she will focus on "The Impacts of the Emigration of U.S. High-Tech Professionals and Industries into Asia." Hu's faculty sponsor is Pat Wright.
Otto Jacobi of Germany. Jacobi is a retired professor of economics and social policy at the Fachhochschule Darmstadt - University of Applied Sciences. He is currently active with Laboratorium Europa, an independent research center. He is also working with the Brussels-based European Trade Union Institute, the research arm of the European trade union movement, and the Hans-Boeckler Foundation in Germany. At ILR, Jacobi will teach "The EU and its Social Model Workers Participation Rights in Europe." The course looks at the establishment of the European Union and the path to a socially-balanced transnational entity. Jacobi will be at ILR through December. He is sponsored by Lowell Turner and the International & Comparative Labor Department.
Jangsoo Ryu of South Korea is professor of the Division of Economics at Pukyong National University in Busan, Korea. He has served since February 2007 as senior policy advisor to the deputy prime minister at the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development of the Republic of Korea since February 2007. He served 2001-2002 as an advisor of the Presidential Commission on Education & Human Resources Development, Korea. He earned Ph.D. in Economics from Seoul National University in 1993. Lisa Nishii is his faculty sponsor at ILR, where he will study human resource development systems by country. His visit to ILR is through July.
More information about the visiting fellows and lecturers is available on the International Programs web site.