Professor Susan Jackson

Professor Human Resource Management

Bio:

Susan E. Jackson is Professor or Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She holds an appointment as Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Business Administration—Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to joining Rutgers in 1998, she taught on the faculties of New York University, the University of Michigan, the University of Maryland, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, France. She received her B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of Minnesota and her Master's and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her primary areas of expertise are the strategic management of human resources and organizational behavior; special interests include managing team effectiveness, workforce diversity, and the design of human resource management systems to support learning and innovation. She has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and several books on these and related topics.

In addition to her university activities, Professor Jackson has held numerous positions in professional societies. In the Academy of Management, she has served as a member of the Human Resources Division's Executive Committee; Editor of the Academy of Management Review, a journal devoted to the publication of scholarly reviews and theory development; President of the Academy of Management's Division of Organizational Behavior; as a member of the Academy of Management's Board of Governors. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, where she served as a member of the Executive Committee for several years. Professor Jackson's consulting activities have included organizations such as General Electric, American Express, Merrill Lynch, the University of California and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

Contact: sjackson@smlr.rutgers.edu