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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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

2225 UH, 996-4481, pthomp1@uic.edu, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: My research interest is primarily in employee ownership and associated topics including leadership, culture, human resource practices, and their effects on organizational outcomes. My  focus in on employee stock ownership (ESOPs) in particular. Because ESOPs result from the intersection of human resource management and corporate finance, studying them brings together my academic and business experience. Moreover, employee ownership of companies has implications for social justice and the creation and distribution of wealth. I point out to my students that employee ownership win-win proposition: having fun while maximizing shareholder value – and elevating the human spirit in the process.

Jeff Ericksen, PhD
Jeff Ericksen received his Ph.D. in Human Resource Studies from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 2006. Ericksen's research interests include human resource scalability, strategic human resource management, emerging organizational forms and work systems, and project team mobilization, development, and performance. In particular, he is interested in advancing our understanding of how organizations manage people to gain a competitive edge in changing environments. His work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Resource Management, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. In addition, he recently co-authored a book chapter that appeared in the Future of Human Resource Management: 64 Thought Leaders Explore the Critical HR Issues of Today and Tomorrow.

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.