Peter Norlander
Associate Professor of Management
Peter Norlander, PhD, is associate professor of management and the director of the Master of Human Resources and Employment Relations program at ºÚÁÏÃÅUniversity Chicago's Quinlan School of Business. His research examines the balance of power in employment relationships, employment discrimination, gig work, and globalization. He teaches courses on managing and motivating in the workplace, employment relations, negotiation and conflict management, and global and comparative employment relations.
Prior experience
- Postdoctoral scholar and instructor, Research Design and Applications for Data Analysis, Online Masters of Information and Data Science program, University of California, Berkeley School of Information 2014-2015
- Teaching Assistant, Negotiations, Human Resources Management, Social Network Analysis, Leadership Foundations, Interpersonal, Group and Cultural Dynamics at Work, MBA, Part-Time MBA, Global Executive Latin America and Asia MBA programs, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2009-2014.
Education
- PhD Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA
- BS Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, NY
Research Interests
- Globalization of knowledge work
- The future of remote work, outsourcing, and offshoring
- Institutional differences in visa-sponsorship and guest worker impacts
- Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations
- How platforms extend control over gig workers
- Race and gender differences in positive and negative experiences at work
Professional/Community Affiliations
- Labor and Employee Relations Association
- Academy of Management
Courses Taught
- HRER 311: Employment Relations
- ACJL 350: Conflict Management and Negotiations
- HRER 502: Global and Comparative Employment Relations
- HRER 417B: Managing and Motivating in the Workplace
Publications/Research Listings
Refereed Journal Articles
Norlander, P. (2021). Do guest worker programs give firms too much power? IZA World of Labor.
Norlander, P., Jukic, N., Varma, A., & Nestorov, S. (2021). The International Journal of Human Management, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2020.1867614. Accepted Manuscript:
Norlander, P., Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2020). , DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363
Gibbons, E., Greenman, A., Norlander, P., and Sorensen, T. (2019). . Antitrust Bulletin, 64: 540-565. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0003603X19875040. (; ).
Norlander, P, Varma, A. (2019). Thunderbird Int. Bus. Rev. 2019; 61: 565– 579.https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22044
Norlander, P. Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2019). , DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363
Norlander, P., & Sørensen, T. A. (2018). Migration Letters; Vol. 15, Iss. 3: 409-422. ()
Depew, B., Norlander, P., Sorensen, T Journal of Population Economics. ()
Norlander, P., Erickson, C., Kuruvilla, S., & Kannan-Narasimhan, R. (2015). E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 4(1).
Under Review
Norlander, P. and DeVaro, J. "Labor Law Violations, Economic Conditions, and Labor-Market Power: The case of Wage Theft Against H-1B Workers." Under review at Journal of Law and Economics.
Norlander, P., Does, S., Shih, M. "Deprivation at work: The Racial Gap Between White and Non-White Americans' Quality of Work Life."
Shih, M., Does, S., Norlander, P. The Absence of Positive Experiences: Examining Disparities at Work. (submitted)
Harris, D. A., Norlander, P. Fifteen Years Later: The Pipeline to the Top at Best Practice and Matched Comparison Firms. (submitted)
Other Intellectual Contributions
Book Chapters
Norlander, P. (2019). The Growing Divergence in US Employee Relations: Individualism, Democracy, and Conflict. In International ComparativeEmployee Relations, Eds. Pietro Manzella and Karl Koch. Edward Elgar. London, UK. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973229.00018. ().
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Dasgupta, B. Norlander, P. (2019). Living in India: Western and Indian Thinking. In Doing Business in India. Budhwar, P., and Varma, A. (eds.). Routledge: London.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management in Asia. Handbook of HRM in Asia. Routledge.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management and Motivation. Sage.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). HRM and performance in Asia. Routledge Handbook of HRM in Asia (pp. 19). Routledge.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). Performance Management and motivation (278-301). Human resource management: Strategic and International Perspectives (Second Edition ed., pp. 278-301). Sage.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management in Asia. Handbook of HRM in Asia. Routledge.
Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. Performance Management and Motivation. Sage.
Book Review
Norlander, P. (2017). , edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni. A Review. The Co-Operative Firm Keywords, edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni.