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EDUCATION

Ph.D.      Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1991
                Major: Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History
                Minors: Labor Economics, Public Policy
                Dissertation: The Effect of Public Policy on Strike Activity in the Public Sector
                Chair: John F. Burton, Jr.

M.S.        Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1984
                Major: Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History
                Minor: Labor Economics

B.A.        Michigan State University, 1980 (with honors)
                Major: James Madison College (interdisciplinary program in public policy studies)

EMPLOYMENT

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (Fall 1999 to present)
Department of Management and Marketing
School of Business
University of Southern Indiana  

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Fall 1997 to Summer 1999)
Department of Management and Marketing
College of Business and Economics
Radford University

Taught Introduction to Business, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Theory, and Organization Development (Management of Change) at undergraduate level, Human Resource Management at graduate level.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Fall 1993 to Spring 1997)
Department of Management and Marketing
School of Business
University of Southern Indiana

Taught Principles of Management, Human Resource Management, Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations, Wage and Salary Administration, and Organizational Theory and Design at undergraduate level; Human Resource Management, Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations, and Wage and Salary Administration at graduate level.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Fall 1986 to Spring 1993)
Department of Management
R.B. Pamplin College of Business
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Taught Personnel Administration, Labor Relations, Managerial Applications (course coordinator), Policy Issues in Labor and Employee Relations at undergraduate level; Collective Bargaining, Current Policy  Issues in Personnel and Labor Relations, and Seminar in Advanced Topics in Labor Relations at graduate level.

INSTRUCTOR (Winter 1986)
James Madison College
Michigan State University

Taught a senior seminar in economic and social policy problems ("Collective Bargaining and National  Labor Policy: The Political Economy of the Regulation of Labor Relations"), and in the team-taught  freshman survey course, an introduction to the study of policy problems.

LECTURER (Spring 1985)
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University

Co-taught section of undergraduate introductory collective bargaining course with Visiting Professor Don Zimmerman (former National Labor Relations Board member), and assisted with graduate seminar on  national labor policy.

GRADUATE ASSISTANT (May 1984-May 1985)
State of New York
Joint Labor-Management Committee

Assisted in developing and conducting research project on the accuracy of cost estimates on nonscheduled  permanent partial disability benefit cases in the New York workers' compensation program.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT (Spring 1982-Fall 1985)
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University

Assisted Professor John F. Burton, Jr. in studies of workers' compensation for permanent partial disabilities, and disability benefits for back disorders in workers' compensation.

TEACHING ASSISTANT (Fall 1982-Summer 1983)
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University

Arbitration, Economic Security/Social Security and Protective Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Law and Legislation

FIELD EXAMINER (June-December 1981)
National Labor Relations Board
Subregion 39
Hartford, CT

Responsibilities included conducting representation elections and  investigating unfair labor practice charges.  

 

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Papers in Refereed and/or Edited Journals  

Nunn, Leslie E., Dane M. Partridge, and Brian L. McGuire.  "I'm Watching You." Denver University Law Review, 79 (4), Summer 2002, 550ff.

Townsend, Anthony M., and Dane M. Partridge.  "Revisiting Multi-Tier Wage Structures: Equity, Employment Mobility, and Tier Effects." Journal of Labor Research, 20 (4), Fall 1999, 605-19.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Virginia's New Ban on Public Employee Bargaining: A Case Study of Unions, Business, and Political Competition."  Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 10 (2), June 1997, 127-39. 

Partridge, Dane M.  "Teacher Strikes and Public Policy: Does the Law Matter?" Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 25 (1), 1996, 3-21. 

Partridge, Dane M.  "Public Policy and Public Sector Strikes: A Review of the Literature."  Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 23 (1), 1994, 1-14.

Partridge, Dane M.  "The Effect of Public Policy on the Duration of Strikes by Public School Teachers."  Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 21 (2), 1992, 111-21.

Partridge, Dane M.  "A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Teacher Strike Activity." Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 21 (1), 1992, 27-43.

               --an earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management,1990, pp. 316-20.

Partridge, Dane M.  "A Time-Series Analysis of Public Sector Strike Activity." Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 20 (1), 1991, 3-21.

Partridge, Dane M.  "The Effect of Public Policy on Strike Activity in the Public Sector."  Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 19 (2), 1990, 87-96.

Partridge, Dane M.  "A Reexamination of the Effectiveness of No Strike Laws for Public School Teachers." Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 17 (4), 1988, 259-68.

 

Other Papers and Reports

Tarnoff, Karen Ann, and Dane M. Partridge.  "Profit Sharing in Unionized  Organizations," Barringer Center Paper No. 90-05, Department of Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, February 1990.

Burton, John F., Jr., Dane M. Partridge, and Terry Thomason.  "The Final Report of a Research Project on  Nonscheduled Permanent Partial Disability Benefits Provided by the New York State Workers' Compensation Program," prepared for the New York Temporary State Commission on Workers' Compensation and Disability Benefits, March 1986.

Burton, John F., Jr., Dane M. Partridge, Larry M. Logan, and Terry Thomason.  "A Research Project on Program Costs for Permanent Partial Disability Benefits under the New York State Workers' Compensation Law," prepared for the New York State Joint Labor-Management Committee, interim report, March 1985.

Burton, John F., Jr., and Dane M. Partridge, "Workers' Compensation Benefits in Michigan and the Other Great Lakes States," a report prepared for Theodore J. St. Antoine, Special Counselor on Workers' Compensation for Governor James J. Blanchard, January 1985.

 

Published Abstracts of Professional Paper Presentations: Refereed

Wagar, Terry H., Kent F. Murrmann, and Dane M. Partridge. "Factors Affecting Workforce Reduction of  Bargaining Unit Employees: Evidence from a Regional and National Survey." Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., January 1995,  pp. 432-33.

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "A Reconsideration of the Effects of Multi-Tier Wage Structures on Attitudes Toward Pay."  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Dallas, August 1994, p. 413.

Partridge, Dane M., and Karen A. Tarnoff.  "The Relationship Between Students' Attitudes Toward Unions and Attitudes Toward Employment Rights Issues." Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Boston, January 1994, p. 502.

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "The Influence of Referents on Attitudes in a Multi-Tier Wage Structure: Preliminary Results."  Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Boston, January 1994, p. 503.

Tarnoff, Karen A., and Dane M. Partridge.  "Student Attitudes Toward Unions and Employment Rights Issues: A Preliminary Investigation."  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., December 1990, p. 517.

Wagar, Terry H., Kent F. Murrmann, and Dane M. Partridge.  "The Influence of the Collective Bargaining Environment on Labor-Management Relationships: An Empirical Investigation," Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., December 1990, p. 518.

Wagar, Terry H., Kent F. Murrmann, and Dane M. Partridge.  "An Empirical Analysis of Workforce Reduction in Unionized Virginia Manufacturing Firms," Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the IndustrialRelations Research Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1989, p. 566.

 

Published Abstracts of Professional Paper Presentations: Invited

Partridge, Dane M., and Robert C. Hoell.  “Do Safety Committees in Nonunion Workplaces Violate the National Labor Relations Act?”  Proceedings of the 17th Annual Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, October 1996, pp. 125-27.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Labor Violence, Unions, and the NLRB."  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 1994, pp. 132-34.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Teacher Strikes and Public Policy: Does the Law Matter?" Proceedings of the 15th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations and Human Resources Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 1994, p. 141.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Virginia's New Ban on Public Employee Bargaining: Striding Boldly Back to the 1940s." Proceedings of the 14th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations and Human Resources      Conference, Myrtle Beach, October  1993, pp. 31-33.

Partridge, Dane M., and Kent F. Murrmann.  "Some Lessons Learned from the Use of  a Computer Case Book in an Undergraduate Survey Human Resource Course." Proceedings of the 14th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations and Human Resources Conference, Myrtle Beach, October 1993, pp. 99-101.

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "The Effect of Perceived Pay Equity on Dual Commitment in a  Multi-Tier Wage Structure."  Proceedings of the 14th Annual Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources Conference, Myrtle Beach, October 1993, pp. 64-66.

Tarnoff, Karen A., and Dane M. Partridge.  "Student Attitudes Toward Unions and Employment Rights Issues,"  Proceedings of the 12th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1991, pp. 36-38.

Partridge, Dane M., Kent F. Murrmann, Harsh K. Luthar, and Gordon Cheung.  "Union Organizing in the South: Progress and Prospects," Proceedings of the 11th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1990, pp. 70-72.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Labor-Management Cooperation in the South," Proceedings of the 10th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 1989, pp. 147-49.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Critical Review of Changing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept," Proceedings of the 10th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 1989, pp. 34-36.

Partridge, Dane M.  "Factors Affecting the Success of Employee Involvement in Unionized Organizations,"   Proceedings of the 10th Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 1989, pp. 119-20.

Murrmann, Kent F., Dane M. Partridge, and Terry H. Wagar.  "Recent Developments in Labor-Management Relations in Virginia: In Search of the "New Collective Bargaining," Proceedings of the 8th Annual  Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 1987, pp. 79-80.

 

Manuscripts in Preparation and Other Research in Progress

Partridge, Dane M.  "Violence and Strikers' Rights to Reinstatement: A Decade's Experience Under Clear Pine Mouldings." 

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "The Effects of Multi-Tier Wage Structures on Worker Attitudes."  

Partridge, Dane M.  "Labor Violence as an Unfair Labor Practice: When is the Union Responsible?"  Working  paper, to be submitted to the Labor Law Journal.

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "The Effect of Perceived Pay Equity on Company and Union Commitment in a Multi-tier Wage Structure."  Working paper. 

Partridge, Dane M., and Joy V. Peluchette.  "Gender Differences in Perceived Offensiveness of Social-Sexual Behaviors in the Workplace: What is it That Men Just Don't Get?" 

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "The Determinants of a Union Collective Bargaining Agreement Ratification Vote." 

Partridge, Dane M., and Karen A. Tarnoff.  "The Relationship Between Students' Attitudes Toward Unions and Attitudes Toward Employment Rights Issues."

Partridge, Dane M., and Anthony M. Townsend.  "The Influence of Referents on Attitudes in a Multi-Tier Wage Structure: Preliminary Results." 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL MEETING PRESENTATIONS

Townsend, Anthony M., and Dane M. Partridge.  "Multi-tier Wage Structures in a Unionized Environment: A Reexamination of Their Effects on Employee Equity Perceptions," presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, D.C., December 1990 (refereed).

"Factors Affecting the Success of Employee Involvement in Unionized Organizations: A Research Proposal,"  presented at the 16th Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Cincinnati, March 1990.

"Recent Developments in Labor-Management Relations in the Southeastern United States: In Search of the "New  Collective Bargaining," presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research     Association, Chicago, December 1987 (refereed).

                --also presented at the 14th Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, March 1988.

"A Reexamination of the Effectiveness of No Strike Laws for Public School Teachers," presented at the 13th  Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Arlington, Virginia, March 1987.

 

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

"Gender and Work," Kimball International, Jasper, Indiana, December 2004.

"Time Management," Kimball International, Jasper, Indiana, April 2002.

"Preparing Management for Work Place 2000--Dealing with the Differences of People in the Work Place- -Employment Relations" (with Janine Hiller), Management Development Center, Blacksburg, Virginia, October 1991.

"Involving Employees in Quality Improvement: The Role of Human Resource Management," national live/interactive teleconference in series, "Virginia Tech Perspectives: Quality Leadership and Management," June 1991.

"The Strategic Management of Quality: Employee Participation," Management Development Center, Blacksburg, Virginia, October 1990.

"Technological Change and Organizational Restructuring: Employment Relations Implications," IBM Advanced Business Skills Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 1989.

 

Other Practitioner Presentations

"Current Developments in Labor Relations," Evansville-area HR Association, October 2004.

"A Roadmap for HR Development in the Coming Decade," Evansville-area HR Association, March 2003.

"Building Effective Virtual Teams," River Cities chapter, American Society for Training and Development, Evansville, Indiana, February 2002.

"Hire, Fire, Inspire," WorkOne Evansville, February 2002.

Panelist, discussion following the film "Wall Street," Labor Education Foundation, Boonville, Indiana, November 2000.

Panelist, local content reaction panel to satellite seminar, "Developing A High-Performance Work Culture: Managing the Moments of Truth," USI Continuing Education, Evansville, Indiana, October 1994.

"Team Building and Goal Setting," University of Southern Indiana, Human Resources, Evansville, Indiana, September 1994.

"Diversity and Discrimination," Evansville Fire Department, Evansville, Indiana, February 1994.

"Involving Employees in Quality Improvement," Gardner-Denver Management Club, Salem, Virginia, November 1990.

"Improving Day-to-Day Labor-Management Relations," American Water Works Service Company, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, February 1990.

"Recent Developments and Future Trends in U.S. Labor Relations," USWA District 35 Summer Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, May 1987.

"Recent Developments and Future Trends in U.S. Labor Relations," Third Annual Virginia Postal Leadership School, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1986.

 

SERVICE ACTIVITIES  

University Service

University of Southern Indiana

Arts and Heritage Management Major Task Force, 2003-present
Higher Learning Commission Self-Study, Committee to Study Student Learning and Effective Teaching, 2003-present
Living-Learning Communities Task Force, 2001-present
Gender Studies Task Force, 2001-2003
Gender Studies Advisory Board, 2003-present
Student Rights and Responsibilities Code Task Force, 2003-04
Honors Faculty Council, 2000-2002
Director, University Honors Program, 2002-present
University Core Curriculum Council, 2002-04
Model UN Club, advisor, 2002-present
New Harmony Task Force, 2002-present
Student Academic Honesty Task Force, 1999-2000
Honors Program Task Force, 1996-97.
Faculty and Academic Affairs Committee, 1994-97 (chair, 1995-96).
Program Committee, Southern Indiana Labor-Management Education Forum, 1993-97.

Virginia Tech

Panel Member, Virginia Tech Honor System, 1990-91.
Evaluated Graduate Research Development Project applications for Graduate Student Assembly, 1991.

Departmental and College/School Service

University of Southern Indiana

Learning Assessment Task Force, 2003-present
Teaching Improvement Committee, 1996-97, 2003-present.
AACSB Interim Report Task Force, chair, 2001-2002
School Personnel Committee, 2001-present (chair, 2003-05)
eCenter Committee, 2002-present
School of Business Faculty chairperson, 2000-2002
Society for Human Resource Management student chapter advisor, 1994-1997, 1999-present
Instructional Resource Committee, chair, 1994-95, 1999-2001
Research Improvement Committee, 1999-2001
 Faculty Affairs Committee, 1996-97.
Curriculum Committee, 1995-96.

Radford University

Curriculum Committee, 1998-99.
Faculty Development Committee, 1997-99.
Benchmark Recruiting Committee, 1997.
Alpha Kappa Psi, advisor, 1999.

Virginia Tech

Awards Committee, 1988-89.
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1986-87.
Seminar Committee, 1986-93.
Society for Human Resource Management, student chapter advisor, 1988-93.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1989-93.

Community Service

University of Southern Indiana

Advisory Committee, Ivy Tech Business Administration Program, 1994-97 (chair, 1996-97).

Professional Service

Society for Human Resource Management, College Relations Committee, 1994-2000.  

Professional Affiliations

Academy of Management
Industrial Relations Research Association
Society for Human Resource Management

Discussant or Session Chairperson at Professional Meetings

Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Atlanta, October 1991.  Session Chair: Unions in Right-to-Work States.

Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Memphis, October 1990.  Session co-chair: Current Developments in Human Resource Management and Labor Relations.

Academy of Management Meeting, San Francisco, August 1990.  Discussant: session on union-management relations.

Third Quality of Life/Marketing Conference: Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1989.  Chair and Discussant: Competitive Paper Session: Quality of Life and Innovation.

Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 1989.  Session co-chair: Southern Perspectives on IR Theory.

Eastern Economic Association Annual Convention, Boston, March 1988.  Discussant: Current Empirical Research in Labor Economics.

Eastern Economic Association Annual Convention, Arlington, Virginia, March 1987.  Discussant: Economics and Industrial Relations.

Editorial Activities

Ad hoc referee for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1988-present.
Ad hoc referee for Academy of Management Journal, 1995.
Reviewed management principles text manuscript by Gareth Jones, Jennifer George, and Charles Hill for Richard D. Irwin, 1996.
Reviewed labor relations text manuscript for Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
Reviewed collective bargaining simulations for Dryden Press, 1990.
Reviewed The Labor Relations Process, 4th ed., by William H. Holley and Kenneth M. Jennings, for Dryden Press, 1989.

Thesis/Dissertation Committees

Department of Management, Virginia Tech (6 Ph.D. committees; 4 M.S. thesis committees, chairing 2 [Karen Tarnoff and Anthony Townsend]).  Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management (1 Ph.D. committee).

Also member or chair of numerous M.S. committees in nonthesis program in Human Resources and Labor Relations.

HONORS AND AWARDS

University of Southern Indiana

School of Business Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, 1997.

Virginia Tech

University Certificate of Teaching Excellence, 1991.
R.B. Pamplin College of Business Teaching Excellence Award, 1991.