The 4th Annual ISU Work-Life Integration Conference on Oct. 27 and 28, 2014.
Dr. Ellen Kossek will be our keynote speaker this year. Some of you may have had the chance to participate in a workshop with her or hear her speak at our 2nd conference two years ago. Now she is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management and the Research Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence.
The conference is again made possible through funding from ISU’s Strategic Plan Goal 6, Initiative #1: “Enhance the quality of life for faculty and staff.”
Organizers:
Monday October 27, 2014
8:30 – 9 am light continental breakfast and discussion
9-9:50 am Research on the Importance of Managers in Attracting and Retaining Workers Across the Generations, Dr. Barbara Eversole, Associate Professor of Human Resource Development, Human Resource Development and Performance Technologies Department, ISU.
10- 10:50 am Pregnant Rosies and Soldier’s Babies: WWII, The Home front and Work-life Balance at the start of the Baby Boom, Ruth Fairbanks, ISU instructor of Women’s Studies and History
11 -11:50 am Work-Life and Family-Friendly Benefits for Domestic Partners and the implications of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization
Noon- 12:50 Work-Life Integration: Flexibility in the Workplace – panel discussion with Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Dr. Lonnie Golden, Penn State – Abington
1 – 1:50 pm Attracting and Retaining STEM Faculty, Students, and Workers, Dr. Luanne Tilstra, Prof. of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Diversity, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
2-3 pm Tables/Resources/Drop in*
3-3:50 pm Making Hay While the Sun Shines: How an Academic Librarian’s Passionate Involvement in a Cause Transformed Her Career and Life’s Work Elizabeth Lorenzen
4 pm 24-7: Connectivity and Virtual Work-Life Balance Panelists: Nick Aballi, Course Delivery Coordinator, Distance Education, Barbara Eversole, Associate Professor of Human Resource Development, Ruth Fairbanks, ISU instructor of Women’s Studies and History
[Session for Faculty and Instructors is held in the ISU Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, 1st floor, Library]
5 pm reception
5:30 – 6:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. LONNIE GOLDEN
Working Time in the Employment Relationship: Perceived Control and Work-Life Balance
Childcare available from 4 pm – 7 pm: To reserve spot contact debraisrael@indstate.edu
Tuesday October 28, 2014
9 – 9:30 am light continental breakfast and discussion
9:30 am – 10:45 am Work-Life Integration and the Role of the Department Chair [attendance restricted to current Department Chairs]
11-12:15 Reducing Work-Conflict Stress: Mindfulness and Meditation, Jean L. Kristeller, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, ISU Dept. of Psychology, Senior Research Scientist
12:30 – 1:45 pm Valuable Retention Tools: Unpaid Leave and the FMLA, Kim Campbell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Margaret Mary Welch, ISU Benefits.
2 – 3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Personal Experiences of Work-Life Juggling
3:30 – 4:30 pm How Leisure Time Activities Can Enhance Faculty, Staff and Student Well-Being and Reduce Stress from Work/Life Conflict, Angie Napier, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Rod Napier (Master’s degree in Recreation)
*RESOURCE TABLES throughout conference:
1) Books from ISU Library Collection
2) AAUW (American Association of University Women) Work-Life resources including research report, Graduating to a Pay Gap; recent themed issue of Outlook (member magazine) ; SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP RATE FOR WORK-LIFE CONFERENCE ATTENDEES [ISU students can be FREE members of association]
Ellen Ernst Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management and the Research Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence , a center that focuses on advancing women's leadership in organizations and society. Dr. Kossek is also currently Associate Director of the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety, and Health of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Work, Family and Health Network, an interdisciplinary national research team collaborating to implement field studies that have the goal of reducing work-family conflict as a pathway to enhance employee and family health and organizational effectiveness. She is the current elected President of the Work Family Researchers Network.
Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek has a Ph.D. from Yale University in Organizational Behavior, an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's degree with honors from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She has also been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, to the board of Governors of the National Academy of Management and Chair of the Academy's Gender and Diversity division for her seminal research on organizational support of effective work and family relationships and advancing gender and diversity in employment.
Her research is focused on three areas: 1) leader and organizational support of positive work-life-family relationships to improve productivity, well-being and reduce stress; 2) organizational adaptation to new work forms such as flexible work schedules, workload, and E- working (telework and mobile personal devices); and 3) managing global workforces, gender and diversity across global cultures and contexts. Dr. Kossek has taught students and managers in the U. S. & globally on such topics such as managing careers and work-life effectiveness; workplace flexibility (e.g., teleworking, flextime, part time); international and domestic human resource management and organizational behavior; leadership; teams; diversity, and organizational change.
Dr. Kossek's research has won awards including the Academy of Management's Gender and Diversity in Organization's Sage Scholarly Achievement award recognizing an accumulated body of research that significantly advances understanding of gender and diversity in organizations. She has published dozens of articles in leading journals, and authored nine books and many chapters. Her book (with Brenda Lautsch) CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age (2009, Wharton/Pearson Publishing) is a best-selling book on "flexstyles", e-working, and changing work-life patterns. This book has been translated into Korean, recognized by the Singapore government, distributed globally, and spawned development of the Work-Life Indicator with the Center for Creative Leadership. Her research has received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan and Gerber Foundations; the U.S. Center for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health; state, national and international governments; and employers. Dr. Kossek has served or currently serves on many journal editorial boards (JAP, HRMJ, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior). Dr. Kossek frequently partners with leaders and employers as a keynote speaker or on research, change work, and management education in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Examples of organizations she has partnered with include Booz Allen, DTE Energy, "Spartan" Stores, Kellogg's LOF (Netherlands), Cusanuswerk (Germany), the U.S. Hubble Space Institute, the American Psychological Association, the University of Michigan, Texas A & M University, Indiana University, the Society of Cardiovascular Surgeons, and the Singapore and Portuguese governments. She has served on advisory boards for organizations globally including Hitachi in Japan, EDHEC in France, IESE in Spain, and the State of Michigan YMCA. She frequently is invited to speak at national and international conferences to address managers, doctoral students and faculty.
Dr. Kossek has previously held academic or visiting scholar appointments at Michigan State University (as a University Distinguished Professor) , the University of Michigan (as a Jean Campbell Scholar) ; the Center for Creative Leadership; the University of Warwick, U.K.; the University of South Australia (as an invited scholar); and Harvard Business School. Dr. Kossek also has significant domestic and international corporate work experience in managing human resources (HR) and organizational change at such firms as IBM, Hitachi, GTE (now Verizon), and Deere and Company in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She also worked for a U.S. congressman and an NGO (United Nations Association).
