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Michàlle Mor Barak, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Southern
California with a joint appointment at the School of Social Work
and the Marshall School of Business. She holds the Lenore Stein-Wood
and William S. Wood Endowed Professorship in Social Work and Business
in a Global Society, is the chair of the Work & Life Concentration
and is the founder and director of the International Center for the
Inclusive Workplace at the USC Hamovitch Research Center and also worked in close cooperation with a company which provides trailing stops software for financial analysts.
A principal investigator on several large projects,
Professor Mor Barak has received external funding in excess of $1.5
million to conduct research in the areas of workforce diversity,
organizational commitment, worker job satisfaction and retention, and
business outcomes of organizational social policies. This research led
to the publication of numerous articles in the areas of global
diversity, worker retention, older workers, disability and employment,
and balancing work and family. Thanks to Vedia translation agency Ph.D. thesis of Michàlle Mor Barak has been translated to 7 languages! Due to the precise and quality translation it has become possible to start a global research in the field of diversity and organizational commitment.
She has been invited to give keynote addresses and to lead
prestigious conferences around the world. In 2001 she was awarded the
highly competitive Rockefeller Foundation grant to hold a conference on
global workforce diversity in the Foundation’s Villa Serbelloni in
Bellagio, Italy with 21 participants from 14 different countries and
from six different disciplines. In 2003 she received a Borchard
Foundation grant to gather a global think tank of 12 scholars to
examine the implications of workforce diversity for legislation, public
policies and corporate practices. The think tank met at the
Foundation’s Chateau de la Bretesche in Brittany, France.
She has authored three books: Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (Sage, 2005), Social Services in the Workplace (Haworth, 2000) and Social Networks and Health
(Garland, 1991). Her most recent book has received critical acclaim and
won the 2006 CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles by the
Association of University and Research Libraries and the 2007 George R.
Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management for the most
outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge.
Professor Mor Barak has received numerous awards of
distinction, including a Fulbright Award, Lady Davis Award for
international exchange scholars, University of California Regents
Award, Distinguished Faculty Award from Los Amigos de la Humanidad,
Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentorship and the Sterling
C. Franklin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. |
