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Larry W. (Chip) Hunter
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Email me at Lhunter@bus.wisc.edu
The undergraduate program in Human Resource Management.
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Research Interests:
I study employment practices and new approaches to labor relations. I am interested how these practices are related to the use of technology, to customer segmentation strategies, and to organizational performance. I focus especially on how managers, through their choices of work practices, affect the earnings and career prospects of low-wage workers. Most of my research is done in field settings, including workplaces in banking, telephone call centers, hospitals and nursing homes. I usually focus on the service sector, though I have also done research in auto manufacturing. I am currently studying workers and employers in the financial services sector. With the support of the Sloan Foundation and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, I am collaborating with researchers from the Urban Institute, the Census Bureau, and researchers from four other Sloan Industry Centers to bring industry context to the analysis of worker-firm dynamics. |
Forthcoming Papers and recently published Book Chapters Links to my published papers (mostly downloadable) Curriculum Vita |
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"Analytical Modeling in Complex Surveys of Work Practices" (with Jerome P. Reiter and Elaine Zanutto). To appear in Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Quantitative industrial relations research frequently relies upon data collected from large surveys of establishments that use complex sampling designs, such as stratified and unequal probability sampling. In this paper, Jerry, Elaine, and I analyze two complex surveys of establishments, the National Organizations Survey and the National Survey of Establishments. We discuss model-based and design-based, i.e. "survey-weighted," strategies for analyzing these data. We show that the choice of strategy can affect inferences about parameters, and hence conclusions drawn from analyses. We discuss the advantages of model-based approaches that include independent variables that correspond to design features, such as functions of size measures or indicator variables for strata or clusters, relative to purely design-based approaches. |
Recently published book chapters "Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations," (with Eileen Appelbaum, just published in Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century, edited by Richard Freeman, Joni Hersch, and Larry Mishel, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.) Eileen and I review workers' participation in strategic decisions – those that affect the basic direction of the company – when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We focus on two institutions through which American unions have engaged in discussion of strategic issues: negotiated union-management partnership agreements, and union representation on corporate boards. This chapter draws in part on my earlier work on unions and boards. This version is a draft but the final chapter will be quite similar.
"Technology, Organizations, and Work-Life Integration," (with P. Monique Valcour, just published in Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert, eds., Managing Work-Life Integration in Organizations: Future Directions for Research and Practice, Lawrence Erlbaum Press.) Monique and I discuss the relationship between technology and work-life integration and balance. We draw from a “contextualist” perspective on technology (as described by Paul Adler) to advance a theory that offers few generalizations but instead emphasizes the micro-dynamics through which technology affects the balance between work and life outside of work. |
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