During the POMS conference in La Jolla the College of Human Behavior in Operations Management has been officially launched with full support of the POMS Officers and Board members. Everybody with an interest in this fascinating aspect of Operations Management is very welcome to join this college.
The College aims to create a community of researchers, educators and practitioners who deal with study of human behavior issues to make POM more effective. This effort will lead to a focus on the study of interfaces and interactions of POM with other disciplines primarily with Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management and Occupational Psychology. These also include the overlap and intersection of various disciplines with respect to logistical and transformation processes for products and services, and the development, deployment and evaluation of human resource policies and practices that support these processes. Specifically, the College will focus on the interaction between individuals, work groups, technology and work place environments.
President: Henrique Correa, Rollins College, Crummer Graduate School of Business (hcorrea@rollins.edu)
Vice President: Abdul Aziz, Morgan State University, Dept of Business Administration (azizmsu@yahoo.com)
Secretary: Björn Claes, Instituto de Empresa Business School (bjorn.claes@ie.edu)
Treasurer: Jo Beale, Cardiff Business School, Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (bealej@Cardiff.ac.uk)
Advisory Member: Elliot Bendoly, Emory University, Goizieta Business School (Elliot_Bendoly@bus.emory.edu)
Advisory Member: Sushil Gupta, Florida International University, College of Business Administration (guptask@fiu.edu)
Advisory Member: Martin Starr, Rollins College, Crummer Graduate School of Business (mstarr@cfl.rr.com)
Advisory Member: Peter Ward, Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business (ward.1@osu.edu)
Note: the current board is appointed as a caretaker board until formal board elections are organized.
1) Journal of Production and Operations Management
2) Human Resource Management
Human and Organizational Factors in Planning and Scheduling Conference
8 - 9 September 2008, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
