The School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) is an

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and professional school of

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. On June 19, 1947,

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Governor

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signed into law legislation which formally established the Institute for Management and Labor Relations (IMLR). In 1994 the Rutgers University Board of Governors approved a resolution that restructured IMLR as the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). SMLR is housed at two locations on the Cook and Livingston campuses of Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Programs

Rutgers' SMLR is the major source of knowledge on the fields of work, building effective and sustainable organizations, and employment relationship. The school is divided into two departments — the Human Resource Management and the Labor Studies & Employment Relations.

Centers and research

Some of the ways in which SMLR applies its expertise to help the employers and workforce of New Jersey are: * Center for Women and Work – research and programs that promote gender equity, and a high skill economy. * Center for Human Resource Strategy - created to advance the field of Human Resource Management by forging partnerships between HR faculty researchers and senior HR executives. * Bio-1 – SMLR played a lead role in securing a $5.1 million grant for Central New Jersey to bring bioscience educators and industry together to build a bioscience cluster * Rutgers Labor Management Partnership - SMLR's goal is to bring together creative minds in the New Jersey labor-management community to share ideas. * Occupational Training and Education Consortium – houses a group of grant-funded health, safety, environmental and workforce development projects.

Notable faculty

Sue Schurman Sue Schurman is an American scholar, currently distinguished professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and dean from 2011 to 2015. Education Schurman earned her PhD from University of Michigan. Career In 1997, Schurman bec ...

, Professor II (Labor Studies and Employment Relations) and Dean of University College Community at Rutgers, is President of the

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Dorothy Sue Cobble Dorothy Sue Cobble (June 28, 1949) is an American historian, and a specialist in the historical study of work, social movements, and feminism in the United States and worldwide. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, h ...

received two awards in 2010: a fellowship from the

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, and winner of the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History.

References

External links

* * http://www.mbs.rutgers.edu * https://web.archive.org/web/20100722004040/http://www.cww.rutgers.edu/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations School of Management Business schools in New Jersey Industrial relations education