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LERA 2017 Awards

Please congratulate these deserving and accomplished LERA 2017 Award Recipients! Awards will be presented in conjunction with the
LERA 69th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 1-4, 2017.

You are invited to personally nominate someone deserving to receive a LERA Award at the
LERA 70th Annual Meeting, in Baltimore, MD, on June 14-17, 2018.

Please visit the LERA Deadlines page for complete information about each award, lists of past award recipients,
and nomination forms, which are due by January 15, 2018, or download the "Calls for Awards" below:

LERA 2017 Award Recipients


Lifetime Achievement Awards

LAA in 2017 to: Carr, Appelbaum, and Burton

The LERA Lifetime Achievement Award is a capstone achievement for lifelong contributors to the field of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, from all perspectives. This award was established in 2000, and awardees are recognized at the LERA Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Presidential Luncheon.
   
Sir Peter Carr
UK National Health Service 		 Eileen Appelbaum
Center for Economic
and Policy Research

John F. Burton Jr.
Rutgers University (ret.)

LERA Fellow Awards (Academic and Practitioner)

The LERA Fellows designation is meant to recognize scholars and practitioners who have made contributions of unusual distinction to the field and have been in the profession and field for longer than 10 years. The selection committee for the Fellow scholar title considered contributions from all disciplines such as Industrial Relations, Labor Law, Economics, Human Resources, Business, Sociology, Political Science, and Organizational Behavior.

Academic Fellows in 2017: Holley, Reich, and Eaton
William H. Holley, Jr.
Auburn University		 Michael Reich
University of California
Berkeley
 Adrienne Eaton
Rutgers University

Practitioner Fellows in 2017: Cousens, Dirksen, and Shea

Mark Cousens
Attorney

 Bill Dirksen
Ford Motor Company		 Mary Ellen Shea
Mediator / Arbitrator

 

Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award

The Eaton award is given annually to a member of the LERA for achievements of distinction as both an academic and practitioner in our field, emphasizing the value of bringing together the academic and practitioner communities.

Erica Groshen
Former Commissioner
of Labor Statistics

  

John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Awards

2017 Awards Given To: Dionne Pohler and Victor Tan Chen

For outstanding contributions to research that address industrial relations/employment problems of national significance:

Dionne Pohler
University of Toronto

 Victor Tan Chen
Virginia Commonwealth
University
 

LERA Outstanding Practitioner Award

The award is for outstanding contributions to the industrial relations profession consistent with the values and the mission of the LERA.
Sheldon Friedman
AFL-CIO		  

 

James G. Scoville Best International/Comparative IR/HR Paper Award

The Scoville Best Paper award is an award given annually to a member of the LERA for authoring an international and comparative employment issues paper designated by LERA International Awards Committee as the “most outstanding.”

Winner in 2017: Employer Association Responses to the Effects of Bargaining Decentralization in Australia and Italy: Seeking Explanations from Organizational Theory
    Authored by:
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Peter Sheldon
University of New South Wales		 Raoul Nacamulli
Università di Milano -Bicocca
 Francesco Paoletti
Università di Milano -Bicocca
 David Morgan
University of New South Wales


LERA Media Award

2017 Recipients Include: Peter Waldman and Natalie Kitroeff

The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) annually recognizes superior reporting regarding issues of importance to our labor-management community including academics, practitioners, industries, and dispute resolution professionals. In the past, the LERA has awarded Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Ken May of Bloomberg BNA as its recipients for their respective contributions. This award carries the distinction of the recipient being invited to present at the LERA Annual Meeting on their journalistic body of work.
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Peter Waldman
Bloomberg		 Natalie Kitroeff
Los Angeles Times
 

Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award

Each year, the Kochan-Sleigh committee reads thousands of pages of dissertations and determines which papers are the most significant contributions to the body of research in the field.

2017 Winner: Bradley Weinberg
Bradley R. Weinberg
Cornell University		  
Duration and Dissolution: Theory, Policy and Practice Concerning the Preservation of Bargaining Relationships

LERA Chapter Awards

LERA recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of local LERA chapters with three levels of awards including Chapter Merit Awards, Outstanding Chapter Awards, and Chapter Star Awards.

LERA Chapter Star Award 2017: TERRA and LERA-Atlanta

TERRA was awarded the most prestigious LERA Chapter Award in 2017 for its significant contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Member Innovation, Chapters Helping Chapters, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter Communications, and Chapter to National Relations.
LERA-Atlanta was awarded the most prestigious LERA Chapter Award in 2017 for its significant contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Member Innovation, Community Involvement, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter Communications, and Chapter to National Relations.

LERA Outstanding Chapter Award 2017: Long Island LERA

Long Island LERA was awarded the LERA Outstanding Chapter Award in 2017 for its contributions in the areas of Outstanding Programming, Consistent Chapter Excellence, Chapter Communications, and Chapter to National Relations.

LERA Chapter Merit Awards

Mid-Michigan LERA received a Merit Award for Outstanding Programming.

Northwest (Seattle) LERA received Merit Awards for Consistent Chapter Excellence and Outstanding Programming.

OC (Orange County) LERA received Merit Awards for Member Innovation and Chapter to National Relations.

Oregon LERA received Merit Awards for Chapters Helping Chapters and Consistent Chapter Excellence.

LERA Gateway received a Merit Award for Chapters Helping Chapters.
RU LERA received Merit Awards for Chapter Startup and Member Innovation.
Alabama LERA received Merit Award for Chapter to National Relations.
Southwestern PA LERA received  Merit Awards for Member Innovation and Chapters Helping Chapters.
PA Laurel Highlands LERA received a Merit Awards for Member Innovation and Chapters Helping Chapters.