Rousseau Receives Best Paper Award

The British Academy of Management (BAM) has selected Denise M. Rousseau as the recipient of the prize for best paper in the Organisational Psychology Track, BAM Conference 2006. Rousseau will receive the prize at the conference, to be held in Belfast from September 12-14, 2006, for her paper "Idiosyncratic deals: How negotiating their own employment conditions affects worker relations with the employer." The conference will focus on Building International Communities Through Collaboration, looking at the way in which management as a field of study adds to our knowledge and understanding of how individuals, groups and organisations can work together in a way that promotes enhanced performance.

Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and faculty director of the Institute for Social Enterprise and Innovation at the Heinz School. She was the 2004-2005 President of the Academy of Management and the 1998-2007 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Her research focuses on the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. Recognized in particular for developing the theory of the psychological contract, (Great Minds in Management, Oxford University Press, edited by Ken Smith and Michael Hitt), her work addresses the powerful reach individual employee's understanding of the employment relationship has on work groups, firms, and society.

Rousseau was recently featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Thinkers section, which highlights people on the forefront of new ideas in their fields.