The accomplishments of the Global Initiatives rely on the work of an international collaboration of scholars and employers, including over 20 academics and practitioners with expertise in comparative public policies, institutional and legal structures of the countries studied, cross-cultural research, and employment experiences of 21st century multi-generational workforce.
The 2008 Global Team includes:
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Richard Croucher
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Matt Flynn
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Senior Lecturer
Middlesex University Business School, UK
Matt Flynn researches and teaches global HRM and age management. He participated in an EU funded project on knowledge management; older workers as a vulnerable occupational group; and the relationship between gender, qualification and work. |
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Masa Higo
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Noriko Kameda
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Noriko Kameda, a native of Japan, has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and is an entrepreneur, having founded and managed a manufacturing company. For many years she taught graduate courses on Global Management at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.
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Suzan Lewis
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Professor, Organizational Psychology
Middlesex University Business School, UK
Suzan Lewis has led many national and international research projects on experiences of combining work and personal life, with a particular focus on the impacts of HR policies on employees across the life course, in diverse national contexts. She is currently involved in a study of quality of working life across Europe.
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Margaret Lombe
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Ariane
Ollier-Malaterre
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Associate Director,
Global Initiatives
Center on Aging & Work,
Boston College
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre is a post-doctoral researcher with the Center on Aging and Work. Ariane has a 10-year professional experience and holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from ESSEC Business School and CNAM University, Paris. She has compared Work-Life Balance organizational initiatives across France, the UK and the US. Her research interests include the Individual/Organization relationship, Work-Life and flexible working, Lifecycle and Aging, Protean Careers, and qualitative methodologies.
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Celina
Pagani-Tousignant
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President
Normisur International
Celina Pagani-Tousignant is the president and founder of Normisur International, an international management consulting firm that specializes in Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Involvement, Work/Life, Diversity, and Executive Coaching. Having a strong global presence, her clientele includes customers in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Asia. Celina’s goal is to create social change by building bridges between companies, communities and people from diverse backgrounds and forging relationships across cultural chasms
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Emma Parry
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Research Fellow
Human Resource Research Centre,
Cranfield School of Management
Dr Emma Parry's research interests include recruitment and selection, particularly the use of the internet for recruitment and selection, the use of technology in HR, age discrimination at work, talent management and international HRM. Emma earned her B.Sc (Hons) in Psychology from London Guildhall University in 1993 and her MSc and PhD in Applied (Occupational) Psychology from Cranfield University in 1996 and 2001 respectively. Emma worked as a consultant to the human resources department of a large retail chain before joining the HRRC in April 2002. Emma is currently managing the Recruitment Confidence Index, a quarterly survey of UK recruitment trends, and is also managing Cranet, an international Network of business Schools that conducts a comparative survey of HRM policies and practices in around 40 countries worldwide. Emma has been also involved in a wide range of research projects in both the public and private sector, including a large-scale human resources and training needs survey for the UK National Health Service, several human resources projects for the Ministry of Defence and a number of CIPD commissioned projects regarding ‘HR and technology’ and Age. Emma is the author of numerous publications and conference papers in the field of HRM.
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Marcie
Pitt-Catsouphes
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Associate Professor
Graduate School of Social Work
Director
Center on Aging & Work,
Boston College
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility and an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work & Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She directs the Center’s Global Perspectives Project. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a recipient of the 2007 Work-Life Legacy Award.
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Ce Shen
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Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Social Work
Boston College
Ce Shen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work of Boston College. His work has been based on the cross-national comparative studies in the field of social development. He has also been involved in research on job satisfaction, career development stage, and working environment of American workforce.
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Legislative Counsel, Benefits and Tax
Workplace Flexibility 2010,
Georgetown University Law Center
Chantel Sheaks' focus is on the impact of workplace flexibility on employee benefits and other tax issues, with a current focus on older worker issues, such as phased retirement. In addition, Ms. Sheaks is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a course on health and welfare plans. Prior to joining Workplace Flexibility 2010, Ms. Sheaks was a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery.
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Michael A. Smyer
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Professor
Department of Psychology
Director
Center on Aging & Work,
Boston College
Michael A. Smyer, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston College. Dr. Smyer was recently awarded the M. Powell Lawton award for distinguished contributions to clinical geropsychology, sponsored by Division 20 and the Retirement Research Foundation.
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Phillip Taylor
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Martin B. Tracy
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Martin B. Tracy, Ph.D. is an experienced analyst and researcher on social security and policy issues related to elderly women in an international context and on community-based social services in economically developing nations. He has held professional positions with the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Office of International Policy, the International Social Security Association, and the International Labour Organization. His academic positions have been with the University of Iowa, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Kentucky. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Social Work at the University of Bucharest, Romania in fall 2004.
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Atsuhiro Yamada
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Associate Professor, Social Policy
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan
Atsuhiro Yamada is a labour economist and is currently Aassociate Professor of Social Policy at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan). He is one of the authors of The Economics of Older Workers in Japan (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun-sha, 2004). He has written on the effect of various public policies related to the older workers. Atsuhiro also conducts research on the income distirubion of older people in Japan from an international comparative perspective as a national expert for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France).
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Qingwen Xu
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