The Consortia Century: Aligning for Impact

Co-hosted by Sydney Employment Relations Research

Abstract

The societal and global challenges of the 21st century exceed the capacity of any one organization or institutional actor. It will take multi-stakeholder consortia to accomplish together what can't be done separately. This talk draws on the forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, The Consortia Century: Aligning for Impact, by members of the Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative. A model for the alignment of stakeholders, rights holders, and other relevant parties will be presented along with case examples on topics from Al Ethics, to Geoengineering, to Data Sharing and Reuse in Science, to Minority Serving Institutions, to Labour-Management Relations. The seminar extends what we know about internal alignment within public and private organizations to external alignment in the institutional and societal context.

Presenter

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is the Florence G. Heller Chair and Professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. He leads research on agile institutions in the 21st Century. Previously he served as a professor and dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and as a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Joel is the past president of the US Labor and Employment Relations Association. He is an award-winning author who has co-authored or co-edited fourteen books and more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and policy papers on human resources, new technology, stakeholder alignment, high performance work systems, labour-management partnerships, negotiations, conflict resolution, and institutional transformation. Joel holds a Ph.D. in industrial relations from MIT and a B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.