Elizabeth+Doherty

Elizabeth M. Doherty, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor of Management at Saint Joseph¹s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studies issues pertaining to worker welfare, with past research focused primarily on rewards and alternative reward strategies. Her current investigations consider how the arts and humanities provide new insights toward understanding human experiences in the workplace throughout the 20th century. Specifically, Elizabeth now studies images of work and workers to learn how artists and writers have interpreted the meaning of work and the employer-employer relationship, especially as compared to what management scholars and practitioners have said. As an emerging program of research, Elizabeth presented her work at both the 2005 and 2006 Academy of Management meetings. Her first article in this field, ³Viewing work historically through art: Incorporating the visual arts into organizational studies² was published in Journal of Management History, 2006, 12(2), 137-153. A manuscript in the ³revise and resubmit² stage compares images of U.S. workers¹ experiences during the Depression era (1930-1941) from an organizational studies perspective (e.g., Taylorism, Fortune magazine writers) with those from the arts (e.g., movies, visual arts, dramas). Through her program of research, Elizabeth aims to show organizational scholars how artists and writers might inform their studies and provide useful insight into designing and implementing strategies that enhance the well being of humans at work.

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Steve