Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Dean and Professor, School of Labor & Employment Relations

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is the Dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations.  He has edited the annotated edition of the Douglas McGregor's 1960 management classic, The Human Side of Enterprise (McGraw-Hill, 2006). Co-authored books include: Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems (with Kevin Ford, Oxford University Press, 2005), Lean Enterprise Value (with a team of 13 MIT colleagues, Palgrave, 2002), Knowledge-Driven Work (with a team of 14 MSU colleagues, Oxford University Press, 1998) Strategic Negotiations (with Richard Walton and Robert McKersie, Harvard Business School Press, 1994), and additional books on workplace training and negotiations. Over eighty articles, book chapters and policy monographs address new work systems, labor-management relations, negotiations, conflict resolution, organizational learning and change, public policy, economic development, and engineering systems.

“Learning and creation of knowledge are very special processes - helping people connect ideas in new, more constructive ways is one of the most rewarding things we can do. I work hard to match the teaching methods to the material and the audience - with highly interactive methods in the teaching of negotiations, for example, and more of a self-directed, coaching approach to the teaching of doctoral students.”

Gentz Franz, Director of Development and Alumni Relations
MHRIR, University of Illinois, School of Labor and Employment Relations
BA in Psychology, Murray State University

Cindy Guthrie, MS, SPHR
Cindy Guthrie is a professional development coach and consultant with thirty years experience in the Human Resources field.  She earned a bachelors and masters degree from Eastern Illinois University and has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources for ten years.  Ms. Guthrie has expertise in every aspect of HR, including policy development, writing handbooks, developing and implementing recruiting plans, creating compensation programs, and developing and delivering management development programs for both small- and large-sized companies. 

Howard Honig

Howard Honig is an instructor with the Hazardous Materials Training program in the  Labor Education Program at the School of Employment and Labor Relations within the University of Illinois.  Howard worked for the City of Chicago as an Assistant Chief Operating Engineer with the Chicago Water Department for 30 years. His responsibilities included supervising the day to day operations of the water purification system as well as being responsible for the chemical operations of both the Jardine and South water purification plants. He was also the training officer for the Chicago water plants administering both procedural and safety training to personnel.   Howard is also an authorized OSHA trainer.

Jenny Hoobler, PhD
Jenny Hoobler, PhD,  is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.  She received her PhD from the University of Kentucky.  She teaches Organizational Behavior and UIC and her areas of interest are human resource management, organizational behavior and women’s studies.  Her research is specialized in dysfunctional organizational behavior, family and work intersections, and gender and diversity in organizations. 

Aparna Joshi, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Joshi has published in several leading journals including the Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior and is the co-recipient of the 2004 Ulrich-Lake Award for outstanding contribution to the Human Resource Management Journal. Professor Joshi conducts research on work team diversity, gender issues at work, leadership and collaboration in global and distributed teams, generational issues in the workplace, and international and cross-cultural issues in HR. A major focus of her research has been on identifying the boundary conditions shaping the relationship between team diversity and performance in organizational settings.

Michael LeRoy, JD, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and College of Law

Professor LeRoy's recent research publications have focused on ADR topics such as cost allocation in mandatory arbitration awards. In the labor field, he has examined the role of Taft-Hartley injunctions on national emergency disputes. During the 2002 West Coast longshore labor dispute, he advised the President's Council on Economic Advisors. More generally, his empirical research has focused on permanent replacement strikes, expansion of the lockout doctrine, presidential regulation of private sector employment relationships, and nonunion employee representation groups. His research has been cited by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate Rep't 105-12); U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals; Minnesota Supreme Court; Wall Street Journal andNew York Times. Professor LeRoy's most recent research interest is terrorism in the workplace.

Darren Lubotsky, Associate Professor of Economics & Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Darren Lubotsky has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus since 2002, holding appointments in the Department of Economics and the School of Labor and Employment Relations. In August 2008, he joined the IGPA faculty. Dr. Lubotsky’s research is on the economic impact of social policy issues, particularly education and immigration. He received his BA from Washington University in St. Louis and his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000.

Peter Thompson, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Lecturer, Management Studies

2225 UH, 996-4481, pthomp1@uic.edu, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago
Peter Thompson is a Lecturer in the Department of Managerial Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His research interests include leadership, organizational culture, human resource practices and organizational psychology–especially as they apply to employee ownership. He has taught a wide variety of course at the university level, including human resource management, compensation, and organizational behavior, as well as finance, accounting, and strategy. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Thompson worked in the financial services industry for 12 years as a financial analyst, corporate finance officer, and loan officer.

Sandy J.  Wayne, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor & Director of the Center for Human Resource Management
Sandy J. Wayne is Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Director of the Center for Human Resource Management (CHRM).  Dr. Wayne received her Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University, and M.B.A. and B.S. Degrees from Illinois State University.  In addition to teaching human resource management courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, she has conducted projects for Allstate Insurance, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Caterpillar, FMC, Motorola, OSRAM Sylvania, and W.W. Grainger on a broad range of human resource management topics including performance management, careers, leadership, selection, employee commitment, and employee retention.