Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

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Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations
TypePublic
Established1947 (as the Institute of Management and Labor Relations)
1984 (as the School of Management and Labor Relations)
Dean Adrienne Eaton
Academic staff
50
Students1,597
Location, ,
USA
Affiliations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Website www.smlr.rutgers.edu

The School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) is an industrial relations and professional school of Rutgers University. On June 19, 1947, New Jersey Governor Alfred Driscoll signed into law legislation which formally established the Institute for Management and Labor Relations (IMLR). [1] 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.

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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:

Notable faculty

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References

  1. New Jersey Assembly Bill, 250-A, 1947
  2. "Events › 2010 › January › Susan Schurman". Center for American Progress. January 2010. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  3. "2010 to 2011: Dorothy Sue Cobble". RSF. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  4. "Previous Sol Stetin Award for Labor History Winners". Hillman Foundation . Retrieved May 22, 2018.

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