Faculty Profile

Brenda Lautsch

Associate Professor
B.Admin. (Regina), M.I.R. (Queen's). Ph.D. (M.I.T.)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-3733
Burnaby Office: WMC 4325

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Biography

Dr. Brenda Lautsch joined the Beedie School of Business in 1998 after earning her PhD in industrial relations and human resource management from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Her keen interest in the human aspects of work, such as employment relationships and issues of equity and fairness in the workplace, are the catalyst for her research into new work systems and inequality, contingent work, alternative dispute resolution, and the effects of flexible work arrangements, such as telework, on work-life outcomes. Her articles have appeared in prestigious journals such as the Industrial and Labour Relations Review.

"It's important," says Brenda, "to consider not only business interests but the lives and passions of workers and their families; to examine how the design of work and the way the organization operates affects all of its stakeholders." One of the great things about being a professor, she says, is the opportunity, through research and teaching, to have an impact on issues she cares about. “Our work can provide guidance to policy-makers and can help managers and workers to think about ways to make jobs and workplaces more equitable, secure and flexible while still not sacrificing performance.”

Brenda is a reviewer for several academic journals and serves as a board member of a foundation that provides doctoral student scholarships.

Specialization and Research Interests

Work and employment relations, work and family, non-standard, contingent and flexible Work arrangements, qualitative research methodology.

Selected Publications

           

Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch.  2008.  CEO of Me:  Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Wharton School Publishing.

David R. Hannah and Brenda A. Lautsch.  Counting in Qualitative Research:  Why to Conduct it, When to Avoid it, and When to Closet it.  Forthcoming, Journal of Management Inquiry.

Ellen Ernst Kossek, Brenda A. Lautsch and Susan C. Eaton. "Telecommuting, Control and Boundary Management: Correlates of Policy Use and Practice, Job Control, and Work-Family Effectiveness." Journal of Vocational Behavior. Volume 68 (2006): 347-367.

Brenda A. Lautsch. "The Influence of Regular Work Systems on Compensation for Contingent Workers." Industrial Relations. Volume 42, No. 4 (2003):565-588.

Brenda A. Lautsch. "Uncovering and Explaining Variance in the Features and Outcomes of Contingent Work within Firms." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Volume 56, No. 1 (October 2002):23-43.


Working Papers

Maureen Scully and Brenda A. Lautsch. "Life and Life Chances: A Critical Look at Merit Rules in Medical and Work Realms." Working Paper.

Ellen Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch.  "Self-Regulatin of Work-Life Flexibility and Well-Being:  Integration of Multiple Perspectives and Typology."  Working Paper.

 

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