John FossumGrad School Committee Member
Professor

John Fossum
CSOM Human Rsc & Industr Rel,
3-390 CarlSMgmt
321 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: 612/624-0092
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.

Research

Expertise
Compensation

Current Research
The implementation and effects of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.


Publications

Major Publications

  • "Pay and Reward for Performance," Handbook of Human Resources, Vol. 3, JAI Press, 1997
  • "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
  • "Labor Relations: Research and Practice in Transition," Journal of Management, 1987
  • "Modeling the Skills Obsolescence Process: A Psychological/Economic Integration," Academy of Management Review, 1986
  • "The Effects of Individual and Contextual Attributes on the Sizes of Recommended Salary Increases," Personnel Psychology, 1985

Books

  • Labor Relations: Development, Structure, Process, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2006
  • Employee and Labor Relations, with J. Mattson (eds.), Bureau of National Affairs, 1990
  • Personnel/Human Resource Management, 4th edition, with H. Heneman, D. Schwab and L. Dyer, Richard D. Irwin, 1989

Instruction

Courses


Service

Current Editorial Appointments

  • Editorial board, Journal of Labor Research

Scholarly Service and Honors

  • Chair, Personnel/Human Resources Division, Academy of Management, 1981-1982; Consulting Editor, Academy of Management Journal, 1987-90; Executive Committee, LERA, 1993-95.
  • Fulbright lecturer, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, 2001-2002