RUTGERS - Key Persons
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- Assistant Teaching Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations ( LSER )
Akhila Naik has extensive experience in academic, legal, corporate and federal agencies. As a licensed attorney, she practiced civil and criminal law for nearly a decade. She also taught various courses at Rider University before joining Rutgers. Most recently, before her current role at Rutgers, she was an Associate Mediator at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). At the EEOC, she mediated complex employment discrimination cases for the New York District.
At Rutgers, in addition to her role as Director, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER). She specializes in areas related to Employment Law, Immigration Law and other topics involving Discrimination and Stereotypes in the Workplace. She also conducts seminars and professional continuing education courses for the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) program in areas of the law that address workplace bias and prevention of discrimination. She oversees the Global Study Abroad program for the LSER Department.
She is an experienced cross-cultural consultant and conducts diversity trainings for various corporations and organizations. She volunteers as a career coach for the New Start Career Network at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. She speaks six languages and loves to travel.
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- Student Counselor, Online MHRM Program
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- Senior Program Coordinator
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- Assistant
- Assistant Dean of Student Services, Office of the Dean
- Career Services Manager
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- Director of Marketing and Communications
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- Assistant Teaching Professor, Human Resource Management ( HRM )
Doug Coffey joined the faculty of the School of Management and Labor Relations in January 2012. He teaches several courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in Human Resource Management concentrating on finance and economics. Mr. Coffey has also designed and currently teaches online graduate courses.
Mr. Coffey has over 20 years experience as a designer, facilitator and manager of accounting, finance, leadership, and communications programs.
Prior to teaching at Rutgers, Mr. Coffey was a learning and development professional for 14 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he developed, facilitated and customized managerial, leadership, accounting, and personal productivity skills programs for all levels with a focus on managerial and senior staff. He also prepared budgets and reported on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr. Coffey managed a training and development team at Barclays Bank. He also taught accounting and finance as an adjunct faculty member with the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies for over 20 years.
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- Distinguished Professor, Human Resource Management ( HRM )
Doug Kruse has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He conducts econometric studies on employee ownership, profit sharing, disability, worker displacement, pensions, and wage differentials.
Professor Doug Kruse's book Profit Sharing: Does It Make A Difference? won Princeton's Richard A. Lester prize as the year's Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. His recent co-authored books include The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century (Yale University Press),
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is holding two books co-authored by Distinguished Professor Doug Kruse, The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century (with Professor Joseph Blasi) People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? (with Professor Lisa Schur).
People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? (Cambridge University Press), Shared Capitalism at Work (University of Chicago Press). He has published over 100 scholarly papers, including articles in peer-reviewed journals such Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Economic Journal, Human Resource Management, Monthly Labor Review, Industrial Relations.
He has testified four times before Congress on his economic research, and conducted several studies for the U.S. Department of Labor and for the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Professor Kruse served as Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2013-2014. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA), a Research Fellow at IZA - The Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany), an editor of British Journal of Industrial Relations, and was appointed to New Jersey's State Rehabilitation Council, the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's transition team.
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- Associate Dean, Business and Administration
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- Trainer
- Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations ( LSER )
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- Student Counselors, Undergraduate Programs
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- Director of Online Professional MHRM Program
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- Student, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
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- Career Management Specialist
- Career Management Specialist, Career Services
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- Inaugural Director of Government
- Member of the American Association of University Professors
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- Robert Beyster Professor, Human Resource Management ( HRM )
Joseph Blasi is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. He is an economic sociologist and teaches the undergraduate and graduate courses on corporate governance. His work includes economic sociology, the social and economic history, and public policy, particularly focused on the issue of capital shares, namely, broad-based employee stock ownership, profit sharing, gain sharing, and stock options in corporations, in countries, in industries, and regions, for example, with a recent study of Silicon Valley and work on different historical periods of American history. He is currently a Visiting Associate at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of The Aspen Institute.
He has written thirteen books including The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21 st Century (Yale University Press, 2013, with Richard Freeman and Douglas Kruse), Shared Capitalism at Work (University of Chicago Press, 2010, with Douglas Kruse and Richard Freeman), In The Company of Owners (Basic Books, 2003, with Douglas Kruse and Aaron Bernstein), The New Owners (HarperCollins, 1991, with Douglas Kruse), and Employee Ownership (Harper and Row, 1988), A Working Nation (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, with various co-authors). His articles have appeared in the The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, among others.
A member of the Department of Human Resource Management and the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers since 1989, he worked for many years in the University Senate, serving as a member of its executive committee. He has been a Research Associate in Labor Studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the William D. Loughlin Member at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 2007-2008 and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Member at the School of Social Science of the Institute from 1995-1996, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Social Organization at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, and a Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Management, and a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School.
He received the Lady Davis Fellowship from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Haifa and was for many years a Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. Early in his career he served as a Legislative Assistant in the United States House of Representatives. Blasi received his doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Julie Peters provides leadership to develop and maintain excellence in the James B. Carey Library's program of information services. She also collaborates with our teaching faculty to integrate library services into the research, teaching and learning environment of the School.
Before her appointment as director, Julie spent 9 years working as a librarian at Raritan Valley Community College. Her most recent appointment was as Raritan Valley's director of library services. Her strong background includes a master of arts degree in leadership and public administration from Centenary College and a master of library and information science degree from Rutgers University. She also holds a bachelor's degree in history from Rutgers.
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- Instructional Technology Specialist
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- Career Management Specialist
- Career Management Specialist, Career Services
Mayelin Torres is a Career Management Specialist on the Career Services team at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. In this role, she works with undergraduate and graduate students majoring/minoring in Human Resources Management and Labor Relations.
Mayelin has 9+ years of experience working with students in higher education. Prior to becoming a career advisor, Mayelin worked as a Director of Internships, Mentoring and Study Abroad at Saint Elizabeth University. She also worked as a Coordinator at Hudson County Community College. Mayelin served in various committees at Saint Elizabeth University and Hudson County Community College. She is currently serving as a member in the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Mayelin enjoys traveling, planting, cooking, and spending time with her family.
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- Marketing and Communications Specialist
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Director of LER Undergraduate Programs
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- Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
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- Student Counselor, Graduate Program
Sandy Becker has been with SMLR several years, teaching Leadership in the Workplace and Training & Development. In addition, he teaches a variety of marketing courses (brand management, marketing strategy and consumer behavior) for Rutgers Business School.
Mr. Becker's background includes corporate experience in instructional design, training development, assessment building and project management. He has worked in the biotech, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and broadcast industries.
He has experience in product management, marketing communications, and sales management.
Recent projects include: instructional design, curriculum development and online learning for a variety of organizations focusing on leadership development, product, marketing, sales, new hire and compliance training.
Sandy has held roles in the pharmaceutical and telecom industries as project manager, instructional designer, brand manager and sales manager.
Mr. Becker has been a presenter at a variety of trade shows, SHRM events, and industry conferences.
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- Associate Dean for Research
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- Director of Media Relations
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- Director, Labor Education Action Research Network ( LEARN ) Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations ( LSER )
- Faculty Coordinator, LEARN
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- Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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- General Counsel
- Teaching Instructor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations ( LSER )