Thomas Anton Kochan
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- M.S., Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin, 1971
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Thomas A. Kochan (born September 28, 1947) is a professor of industrial relations, work and employment. He is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has been a faculty member since 1980.[http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=SP000071&co_list=F MIT Faculty Entry. Accessed 20 July 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715020416/https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=SP000071&co_list=F |date=15 July 2010 }}
He is author of the books Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America{{cite book |title=Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America |last=Kochan |first=T.A. |date=September 2005 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-11292-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/restoringamerica00koch |access-date=20 July 2010 |url-access=registration }} and Shaping the Future of Work.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessexpertpress.com/books/shaping-future-work-what-future-worker-business-government-and-education-leaders-need-do-all-p|title=Shaping the Future of Work: What Future Worker, Business, Government, and Education Leaders Need To Do For All To Prosper|work=Business Expert Press}}
In 2010, Kochan led the formation of the Employment Policy Research Network (EPRN),{{cite web|url=http://www.employmentpolicy.org/#sthash.v04TBTIQ.dpbs|title=Labor and Employment Relations Association – Home}} an online think tank on the subject of employment, a project of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, supported by the Rockefeller and Russell Sage foundations.{{cite web|url=http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/press-releases/mit-sloan-professors-new-book-lays-out-a-comprehensive-strategy-to-change-the-course-of-the-countrys-economy-and-employment-system/|title=Shaping the Future of Work – Press Releases – MIT Sloan School of Management}} The EPRN web site launched in January 2011 with 100 researchers from 35 universities, including MIT, Harvard, California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Michigan State, Pennsylvania State University and UCLA.{{cite web|url=http://www.employmentpolicy.org/About#sthash.YOEA1CKj.dpbs|title=Labor and Employment Relations Association – About}}
He served as chair of the MIT faculty from 2009 to 2011.{{cite web|url=https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/institute/offices/mit-faculty/|title=MIT History}} He came to MIT in 1980 as a professor of industrial relations.{{cite web|url=https://www.fed-soc.org/experts/detail/thomas-kochan|title=Prof. Thomas Kochan}} From 1988 to 1991 he served as head of the behavioral and policy sciences area in the Sloan School.
He has served as a third-party mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator and as a consultant to a variety of government and private sector organizations and labor-management groups.
He was a consultant for one year to the Secretary of Labor in the Department of Labor's Office of Policy Evaluation and Research.{{Cite web|url=http://caseplace.org/d.asp?d=7780|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315033349/http://caseplace.org/d.asp?d=7780|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 15, 2016|title=The Aspen Institute: Ideas Worth Teaching}}
Kochan focuses on the need to update America's work and employment policies, institutions, and practices to catch up with a changing workforce and economy. Through empirical research, he demonstrates that fundamental changes in the quality of work and employment relations are needed to address America's critical problems in industries ranging from healthcare to airlines to manufacturing.{{cite web|url=http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=41337|title=Thomas Kochan – Faculty – MIT Sloan School of Management}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOyPumbw0poC|title=Encyclopedia of History of American Management|last=Witzel|first=Morgen|date=2005-05-15|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781843711315|pages=308–310|language=en}}
Education
- B.B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1969
- M.S., Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin, 1971
- Ph.D., Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin, 1973
Notable awards
- 1988 Recipient of the George Terry Scholarly Book Award from the Academy of Management for The Transformation of American Industrial Relations.{{cite web|url=http://aom.org/Meetings/awards/Historical-Award-Winners.aspx|title=Historical Award Winners}}
- 1992–1995 President, International Industrial Relations Research Association. (US Department of Labor)
- 1993 Appointed to Commission for the Future of Worker-Management Relations.{{cite web|url=http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/reports/dunlop/members.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011101150049/http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/reports/dunlop/members.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 1, 2001|title=Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations}}
- 1996 Heneman Career Achievement Award, Academy of Management
- 1997 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOyPumbw0poC|title=Encyclopedia of History of American Management|last=Witzel|first=Morgen|date=2005-05-15|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781843711315|page=310|language=en}}
- 1999 President of the Industrial Relations Research Association{{cite web|url=http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073137154/information_center_view0/about_the_authors.html|title=An Introduction to Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations Information Center: About the Authors}}
- 2009 Elected to National Academy of Arbitrators{{cite web|url=http://mitsloan.mit.edu/alumnimagazine/w11-snapshot.php?pg=all|title=Campus Snapshot – MIT Sloan Alumni Magazine}}
- 2009 Guest Editor in Chief, Special Research Forum of the Academy of Management Journal on Management Research and Public Policy {{cite journal|url=http://amj.aom.org/content/52/6/1088.extract|title=Introduction to the Special Research Forum— Public Policy and Management Research: Finding the Common Ground|year=2009|doi=10.5465/amj.2009.47084646|last1=Kochan|first1=Thomas A.|last2=Guillen|first2=Mauro F.|last3=Hunter|first3=Larry W.|last4=O'Mahony|first4=Siobhan|journal=Academy of Management Journal|volume=52|issue=6|pages=1088–1100|url-access=subscription}}
- 2010 Inaugural Fellow of the Labor and Employment Relations Association{{cite web|url=http://www.leraweb.org/lera-fellows|title=LERA Fellows|author=Emily Smith}}
- 2010 Academy of Management's Scholar-Practitioner Award
- 2012 PhD Dissertation Award of the Labor & Employment Relations Assn. “named” in Kochan's honor{{cite web|url=http://fisher.osu.edu/newsroom/?folder=65&news=4097|title=Fisher College of Business – Professor, PhD candidate honored for top dissertation projects}}
- 2014 Honorary Doctor's Degree from Sydney University{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/business/news/2014/scholar_granted_honorary_doctorate|title=Leading industrial relations scholar granted honorary doctorate}}
- 2015 Aspen Institute Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award
Notable publications
- Working in America: Labor Market Institutions for the New Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. (With Paul Osterman, Richard Locke and Michael Piore).{{cite book|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/working-america|title=Working in America|work=MIT Press|date=26 October 2001|isbn=9780262151054}}
- Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, September 2005.{{cite book|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/restoring-american-dream|title=Restoring the American Dream|work=MIT Press|date=2 September 2005|isbn=9780262112925}}
- “Who Should Close the Middle Skills Gap?” Harvard Business Review, December, 2012 (with David Finegold and Paul Osterman){{cite web|url=http://mitsloan.mit.edu/iwer/posts/publication-categories/wages-jobs-and-labor-markets/|title=Wages, Jobs, and Labor Markets}}
- “The American Jobs Crisis and its Implication for the Future of Employment Policy: A Call for a New Jobs Compact,” ILR Review, 66 (2) April, 2013. (Lead article).{{cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/vol66/iss2/1/|title="The American Jobs Crisis and Its Implication for the Future of Employm" by Thomas A. Kochan}}
- Shaping the Future of Work. Business Experts Press. Publication date, December, 2015.
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External links
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