The Center for Leadership Science  is pleased to welcome our inaugural in-person speaker for 2023-2024, Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek, the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Management in the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. Recognized as one of the seminal work-family researchers in the management, organizational behavior and Industrial-Organizational psychology fields, she was the first elected President of the Work-Family Research Network. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. Her research has won multiple awards for scholarly, teaching, and practical impact as well as for mentoring students and working with organizations on evidence-based solutions. She has published in the top management and psychological journals (e.g. AMJ, JAP, AOM Annals, JOM) as well as in the popular business press (HBR, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times). She has received funding from NIH, NSF, Alfred P. Sloan, Russell Sage and Gerber Foundations. Her research interests, which often include field experiments and management training interventions, include leader and organizational support of work–family–life relationships and flexibility, technology and work–life boundaries, and gender and diversity inclusion. She has partnered with government and nonprofits on organizational and human resource policy innovation.

Brief Abstract: In this presentation, Dr. Kossek will share the results from two studies on the changing nature of the faculty job boundaries, and work-life well-being in the corporatized university. Drawing on a cross-national qualitative U.S. U.K dataset, Study 1 takes a critical view to examine the changing work-life and career experiences of STEM faculty illustrating a growing tension in professional work - where jobs that ostensibly have lots of autonomy are under increasing organizational control.  Study 2, a mixed method study, draws on survey data from over 91 U.S. research universities using latent profile analysis to identify variation in work-life inclusive climates and how they are experienced related to career well-being. The U.S. National Science Foundation is thanked for funding much of this research.