Ellen Ernst Kossek (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor at Michigan State University and a leading award-winning U.S. researcher on employer support of work and family policies. She is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association (2002) and the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (2001) for her contributions to work and family research. She was elected by her peers to the current Academy of Management Board of Governors (2003-2006), and previously elected Chair of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division. She has been invited to give keynote addresses on work and family research and diversity all over the world and is regularly quoted in the media. She has published over 30 referred articles examining the productivity and health and well being impact of work-life cultures, job design and control, and employment and work-family policies including on site child care, flextime, part time or reduced load work, telework, leaves of absence, job sharing, and FMLA. She recently co-edited two new books on the current state of work and family research: Managing Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural and Individual Perspectives (2005) and Work and Family Handbook (2006) (both LEA Press). She has just finished conducting a study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as co-Principal Investigator on managing flexibility, new ways of working, and new work forms for professionals and managers (http:// flex-work.lir.msu.edu/). She has two major current field research projects as co Principal Investigator. The first is a national study funded by NIOSH on the Health and Safety Benefits of Supervisor Support for Work and Family as part of the National Institute of Child and Health Development Work and Family Network (with Leslie Hammer). The second study is on work- life flexibility in unionized contexts funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (with Peter Berg). She has served on the Wharton Work-Life Roundtable, as co-editor of the Sloan Work Family Network's Work and Family Encyclopedia. She currently serves on its teaching resources board as well as the University of College and University Women's Work and Family Advisory Board. In addition to Sloan and NIOSH, her scholarly work has also been supported by the Gerber Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, State of Michigan Department of Commerce, Family Independence Agency, & Research Excellence Funds; Center for Creative Leadership,and many private employers. Recently, she has been invited to present her work by the Sloan Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy, the National Institute of Health, the Rutgers Diversity Roundtable, the American University Law Center, the Illinois Institute of Technology Law Center, the International Center for Work and Family in Spain, the University of Warwick, U.K., and the Boston College Work and Family Roundtable. Other published books include: Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice (2000,Southwestern), Managing Diversity: Human Resource Strategies for Transforming the Workplace (1996, Blackwell), and The Acceptance of Human Resource Innovation: Lessons for Managers (1989, Quorum). She was program Co-Chair of First Governor's Conference on Employer-Sponsored Child Care - State of Michigan and published one of the first state books on employer support of work and family Child Care Challenges for Employers (1991, LRP). She has new book contract with Harvard Business School press to develop a book on managing boundaries between work and home. She has served or currently serves as a consulting editor or board member of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, The Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Planning Journal, and the Human Resource Management Journal. She has traveled to and taught managers and executives from leading corporations in Tokyo, Spain, Korea, the U.S., and the United Kingdom on the role of human resource management strategies in organizational change. Prior to becoming a professor, she worked in human resources for Hitachi, IBM, GTE, and Deere & Co. in Japan, Europe, and the U.S.. She also interned in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a U.S. Congressman.