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Expert Details

Litigation Involving Surveys and Assessments in the Workplace & Employee Motivation and Performance

ID: 724819 Michigan, USA

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Expert received an MA in research methodology from the University of Chicago, as well as an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Columbia University. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience designing and analyzing assessments for large corporations, and has worked as a researcher or faculty member at IBM, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the University of Michigan Business School. He lectures nationally on communication, survey design, and linkage analysis, and has written articles for scientific publications such as The Journal of Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, The Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, and Harvard Business Review. (His first HBR article was on the design of assessments in the workplace, and his second was on web-based surveys.) Practical experience includes assessment services for employees at companies such as GM, International Truck and Engine Corporation, EDS, Sprint, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Sears, Disney, and numerous other Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of several patented employee assessments, and has been an expert resource for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (where his company was recently featured). He has testified as an expert witness for Congress on employee motivation and performance assessment, and has assisted numerous legal firms with statistical analysis of very large datasets as well as litigation involving surveys and the impact of the corporate culture on performance. He is currently president of EMPA, a company that designs customized assessments, and (in conjunction with the University of Michigan) conducts the National Benchmark Study® that annually sets normative BenchmarksSM and measures the causal linkage between employee motivation and objective performance metrics.

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He has testified as an expert witness for Congress on employee motivation and performance assessment, and has assisted numerous legal firms with litigation involving surveys and the impact of the corporate culture on performance. Practical experience includes assessment services for employees at companies such as GM, International Truck and Engine Corporation, EDS, Sprint, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Sears, Disney, and numerous other Fortune 500 companies.Served as consultant (~20 years) responsible for designing & analyzing customized assessmentsServed as invited keynote speaker at national & international conferences Served as an expert witness in numerous cases involving discrimination and the analysis of statistical data

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1989 Degree: PhD, MPhil Subject: Social Psychology Institution: Columbia University
Year: 1980 Degree: MA Subject: Research Methodology Institution: University of Chicago
Year: 1976 Degree: B.A. Subject: Creative Arts Psychotherapy Institution: Goddard College

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1998 to 2008 Employer: EMPA Title: CEO Department:
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1991 to 1996 Employer: University of Michigan Title: Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Research Scientist Department: CSMIL & School of Business
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1993 to 1999 Employer: Univ. of Michigan Title: Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Research Scientist Department: Cognitive Science & Machine Intelligence Lab
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1997 to 1998 Employer: University of Michigan Business School Title: Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Research Scientist Department: National Quality Research Center
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1987 to 1991 Employer: University of Hawaii, Honolulu Title: Researcher Department: Kewalo Basin Laboratory
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1986 to 1987 Employer: Watson Research Center, IBM Title: Research Assistant Department: Computer Science Department
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1981 to 1982 Employer: Yale University Title: Research Assistant Department: Psychology Department
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1977 to 1979 Employer: Henry Horner Children's Hospital Title: Acting Director Department: Early Child Development Center
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.

Government Experience

Years Agency Role Description
Years: 2002 to 2002 Agency: US Border Patrol/INS Role: Researcher/Social Scientist Description: Performed study on illegal immigration into the US for INS

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
APA, APS, Psychonomic Society
Professional Appointments
Chairmanship, Colloquium Committee, Department of Psychology, Columbia; International Schoolboy Fellowship, English Speaking Union, England;
Awards / Recognition
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (second edition, 1994-1995); Scholarship, French Ministry of Education & Université de la Source, Orleans, France
Publications and Patents Summary
Over forty publications, presentations, and patents

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Served as the sole expert witness specializing in organizational psychology and, in that capacity, analyzed 4 million rows of production data from large assembly line in a case where 32 million dollars was at stake; my statistical analysis provided the only empirical evidence exonerating our side of liability. The case settled successfully out of court.
Other Relevant Experience
Testified to congress on the linkage between working conditions, employee motivation, and defect rate. I have also published several Harvard Business Review articles on workplace assessments, and have written several patents for inventions pertaining to assessments in the workplace.

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
French

Fields of Expertise

employment, work sampling, automatic vision system, baselining, benchmark, benchmarking, competitive benchmarking, competitive intelligence, employee empowerment, employee protection, employee right-to-know law, human efficiency, human resources, industrial benchmarking, learning curve, market assessment, market trend, motivation, operations research, organizational behavior, organizational development, performance analysis, performance measurement, resource, self-directed work team, team building, work measurement (quantity), organizational assessment, workplace design, blue cross, employee motivation, blue shield, employee assessment, mentoring, employee drug testing, drug monitoring, community right-to-know law, workplace environment engineering, management information system, drug abuse

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