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MIT to launch "Shaping Work of the Future," a free MITx online course
Participants may enroll at any time throughout the year and work at their own pace starting on January 7, 2020
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Thomas Kochan is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, a Professor of Work and Employment Research, and the CoDirector of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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. His recent work calls attention to the challenges facing working families in meeting their responsibilities at work, at home, and in their communities. Through empirical research, he demonstrates that fundamental changes in the quality of employee and labor-management relations are needed to address America’s critical problems in industries ranging from healthcare to airlines to manufacturing. His most recent book is Shaping the Future of Work (Business Experts Press, 2016).
Kochan holds a BBA in personnel management as well as an MS and a PhD in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin.
Kochan, Thomas. The Irish Times, January 10, 2019.
Kochan, Thomas A., Duanyi Yang, William T. Kimball, and Erin L. Kelly. Industrial and Labor Relations Review Vol. 72, No. 1 (2019): 3-38. Download Preprint.
Avins, Jeremy, Megan Larcom, and Jenny Weissbourd, with Thomas Kochan (Advisor), Working Paper. 2018.
Henry C. Katcz, Thomas Kochan, and Alexander J.S. Colvin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University ILR Press, 2017.
Kochan, Thomas. MIT Sloan Experts. MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2017.
Kochan, Thomas, Harry C. Katz, and Robert B. McKersie. by Thomas Kochan, Harry C. Katz, and Robert B. McKersie. ILR Review, October 1, 2016.
Participants may enroll at any time throughout the year and work at their own pace starting on January 7, 2020
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