Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Management
Ph.D. Yale University, Organizational Behavior
M.B.A., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Human Resources
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, So.Hadley, Mass., Psychology with honors
Ellen Ernst Kossek looks at the popular press and scholarly research and shows that both suggest that the pandemic created a seismic disruption to work and nonwork boundaries and has set back women’s careers and gender equality a generation.
Full story: How Women in STEM Adapted to Disrupted Boundaries During the Pandemic
Donna and Rhonda work at the same office and have comparable job responsibilities. Yet things are quite different at their respective homes, where they live with working partners. Donna has few responsibilities compared to her partner, Kim, who handles almost all the domestic chores and takes time off from work whenever their child is sick. Rhonda, on the other hand, often feels overwhelmed with housework and the burdens of raising four children, and so does her husband, Mark, who shares the household duties and also takes care of an aging parent.
Full story: Misery Loves Company: How Your Partner's Roles Influence Your Work-Family Satisfaction
Gender equality has become a hot topic in management as business leaders address growing pressures to advance women who remain significantly underrepresented in key leadership jobs and face an on-going pay and stock equity gap, says Ellen Ernst Kossek, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management.
Full story: Study identifies seven steps for advancing career equality amid pandemic
Ellen Ernst Kossek, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at the Purdue University Krannert School of Management and research director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, discusses the urgent need for U.S. work-family policy reform in a column for Brink, a publication focused on comprehensive insights on risk in the areas of environment, economy, society, geopolitics and technology.
Full story: The Edge of Risk: Now Is the Time to Move the Needle on US Work-Family Policies
Placing a loved one in a nursing home can be a traumatic experience for the entire family with concerns about the care and attention they will receive. According to Ellen Ernst Kossek, the Basil S. Turner Professor at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, those concerns could be eased by some simple changes in the way the schedules are done for the staff at that facility.
Full story: Work Patch: Improved scheduling could improve life in nursing homes
Do you check your work email from home during off hours and weekends? Do you eat lunch at your desk or use break time to answer work or personal emails or texts? Chances are, many of us are “overworking” more than is necessary to be effective in our jobs, says work-life balance expert Ellen Ernst Kossek, a professor at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management.
In the wake of the #MeToo social media movement, which has grown to include gender inequity in the workplace, a March 2018 conference at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management served as a call to action among U.S. companies. Featuring prominent scholars and corporate leaders dedicated to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, the conference highlighted the disparity in the number of men and women filling leadership roles and other biases ingrained into business cultures and practices.
Ellen Ernst Kossek discusses about how phone polices influence employees' working experience
Krannert professor Ellen Kossek discusses work life flexibility
We not only live in a 24-7 world, but also work in one. From health care and manufacturing to retailing and information technology, someone is on the clock every hour of every day. Research by Purdue’s Ellen Ernst Kossek examines how that presents a growing challenge for employees, employers and those whose manage the work schedules of others.
Professor Ellen Kossek on reduced workload
With an especially harsh flu season underway, Purdue University Professor Ellen Kossek says employers need to be proactive in dealing with ill workers. Kossek, a specialist in work-life issues, says the United States has a large number of workers who aren't paid if they stay home because of illness.
Ellen Kossek, Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at Krannert, speaks about watching the NCAA tournament in the workplace.
Work-life research
This award recognizes a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division and who has personally served as a mentor and role model for others in the field.
Award to top 1% of AOM members for significant contributions to the science & practice of management.
Award from global Institute of flexibility management for advancing the science and practice of flexibility
This accolade is Purdue University's highest award for excellence in the humanities and social sciences.
Awarded to visit in the U.K. to work on a project to advance gender and diversity in Universities via work-life flexibility policies
Recognizes a work-family researcher or research team who has contributed breakthrough thinking to the work-family field
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Office: RAWL 4091
Personal website
Current NSF grant- U.S. Faculty well-being study
Video on Research
NSF workshop
Breaking Bias Conferences
Personal website
Compensation, Digital Economy, Diversity/Inclusion, Employment Law, Executive Compensation, Experiential Learning, Future of Work, Human Resource Management, Hybrid Work, Industrial Organization, Labor, Leadership, Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Migration, Motivation, Nonprofit Management, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture, Performance Management, Public Policy, Unions, Virtual Teams, Work/Family Balance
