Moore School of Business - Hoyt Wheeler Elected to IIRA Executive Committee

Dr. Wheeler Dr. Hoyt N. Wheeler, professor of management and Business Partnership Foundation Fellow, was recently elected to the Executive Committee of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), an organization founded in 1966 to “promote the study of industrial relations throughout the world in the relevant academic disciplines.”

Changes in employment practices worldwide, particularly a shift from traditional employment practices to a network economy and the consequences for workers, is a current issue the group is addressing and was a focus of its 14th IIRA World Congress held in September 2006. Dr. Wheeler presented a paper, “Worker Owners and Corporate Governance,” at the conference.

Dr. Wheeler has had a distinguished career in his field, most recently serving as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, affiliated with the faculty of law, at the University of Frankfurt Am Main in Germany for the 2005-2006 academic year. He has also been a visiting professor and scholar at the University of Paris I, Sorbonne, and the University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas.

Dr. Wheeler is the author of The Future of the American Labor Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is a former president of the Industrial Relations Research Association, as well as a member of its executive board and a co-editor of its magazine, Perspectives on Work. He served as a rapporteur for the 1989 World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association.

He has served as a labor arbitrator for more than 25 years and is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Gail Crouch
September 26, 2006

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Hoyt Wheeler Elected to IIRA Executive Committee