John Fossum

Professor Emeritus

Department of Work and Organizations

Contact

612-624-0092

3-140 CarlSMgmt

jfossum@umn.edu

Education:

BA 1961

Economics St. Olaf College
MA 1968

Industrial Relations Univ. of Minnesota
PhD 1975

Labor and Industrial Relations Michigan State Univ.

Expertise:

Compensation

Selected Works & Activities

Journal Articles

"New Dimensions in the Design and Delivery of Corporate Training Programs," New Development of Worker Training: A Legacy for the 1990s, Industrial Relations Research Association, 1990
Journal Articles

"Labor Relations: Research and Practice in Transition," Journal of Management, 1987
Journal Articles

"Modeling the Skills Obsolescence Process: A Psychological/Economic Integration," Academy of Management Review, 1986
Journal Articles

"The Effects of Individual and Contextual Attributes on the Sizes of Recommended Salary Increases," Personnel Psychology, 1985
Whole Books

Labor Relations: Development, Structure, Process, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2006
Whole Books

Employee and Labor Relations, with J. Mattson (eds.), Bureau of National Affairs, 1990
Whole Books

Personnel/Human Resource Management, 4th edition, with H. Heneman, D. Schwab and L. Dyer, Richard D. Irwin, 1989

Current Research

The implementation and effects of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Scholarly Service

Chair, Personnel/Human Resources Division, Academy of Management, 1981-1982; Consulting Editor, Academy of Management Journal, 1987-90; Executive Committee, LERA, 1993-95.
Scholarly Service

Fulbright lecturer, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, 2001-2002
Editorial Appointments

Editorial board, Journal of Labor Research