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Journal of International Management Reviews, and Journal of Market-Focused Management.Heis
a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational
Psychology, a past editor of the Journal of World Business and a past co-editor of the Journal of
Operations Management.
Dr Oliver Strohm, Institute for Work Research and Organizational Consultancy, Obere Z¨aune
14, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland.
Oliver Strohm, studied in psychology at the University of Konstanz, Germany and received his
Ph.D. in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Berne, Switzerland (1995). He
worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Work Psychology at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and was head of the department “Enterprise Strategies and
Concepts” of the CIM-Center of the region of Zurich. He was the Coordinator of a Quality and
Change Program at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Since 1998 Oliver Strohm
has been a partner and CEO of the Institute for Work Research and Organizational Consultancy
in Zurich. His current activities include research in the field of Change Management and Micro-
politics in Change Processes, as well as consulting activities for diverse companies of different
sizes and branches in the field of organizational and leadership development and human resource
management.
Dr Paul E. Tesluk, University of Maryland, U.S.A, Robert H. Smith School of Business,
Department of Management & Organization, 3346 Van Munching Hall, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742-1815, U.S.A.
Paul Tesluk is an Assistant Professor in Management and Organization in the Robert H. Smith
School of Business at the University of Maryland. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at
Tulane University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Penn State
University. His research interests include the design and implementation of high-involvement
workplace systems, work team performance, and work experience and managerial development.
His work has been published in such journals as Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management
Journal, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He has received awards for his research on team
effectiveness (S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award) and work experience (William A. Owens
Scholarly Achievement Award) from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
Prof. Dr Henk Thierry, University of Tilburg, Dept. of Human Resource Science, P.O. Box
90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
HenkThierrystudiedPsychologyattheFreeUniversityinAmsterdam.In1971hewasappointed
as Associate Professor, since late 1975 as Full Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology
at the University of Amsterdam. In 1993 he got a new chair in Human Resource Science at Tilburg
University. Since 2000 he is Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at that University.
In 1972–1973 he worked at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. In 1982–1983 he was engaged as research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar. In 1989 he taught a spring term
at the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Washington, Seattle. He
has lectured at Universities in many other countries.
His research domain covers pay and compensation at work, work time arrangements and be-
havioral effects, work motivation, and strategic Human Resource Management. Recently, he co-
authored (with Pieter J.D. Drenth and Charles J. De Wolff) the second edition of the Handbook of
Work and Organizational Psychology (Psychology Press, 1998). He is engaged in cross-national
research on meanings of pay, performance measurement (Pritchard), and leadership and organi-
zation culture (House). He is member of various editorial boards, e.g. associate editor of Applied
Psychology: An International Review.
Nick Turner, The Institute of Work Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Mushroom Lane,
Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K.
Nick Turner is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Work Psychology, The University of Sheffield,
U.K. He studied previously at Queen’s University, Canada, and WHU-Koblenz, Germany. As a
member of Sharon Parker’s UK research team, Nick is investigating how changes in work design
affect employee safety. In addition, he is learning how to teach, and is collaborating on projects to
do with ‘positive’ organizational psychology; the links between organizational practices, company