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Public Affairs Faculty

Richard S. Rubin
Professor and Director, Center for Public Sector Labor Relations

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1973

Professor Rubin's teaching and research interests center on labor-management relations in the public sector with a particular focus on conflict resolution and labor-management cooperation. His current research interest is in labor-management cooperation strategies for public employees and their governmental employers. Much of his writing is based on applied research and has been published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Public Administration Review, Public Productivity & Management Review, Employee Relations Law Journal, Public Administration Quarterly, and Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector.

In addition to teaching and research, Professor Rubin serves regularly as a mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator in collective bargaining disputes between public employee unions and government, specializing in state and local disputes. He also serves as the neutral chair of several joint labor-management committees.

Recent Publications
"Graduate Student Employees and Their Propensity to Unionize: A Heuristic Approach," (with B. Rubin et al.), Journal of Collective Negotiations. [accepted for publication]

"Service Contracting and Labor-Management Partnerships: Transforming the Public Sector" (with B. Rubin), Public Administration Quarterly. [in press]

"Municipal Service Delivery, Collective Bargaining and Labor-Management Partnerships" (with B. Rubin), Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June) 2003, pp. 91-112.

"Creeping Legalism in Public Sector Grievance Arbitration: A National Perspective" (with B. Rubin), Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March) 2003, pp. 3-14.

"Labor-Management Partnerships: A New Approach to Collaborative Management" (with B. Rubin) Chapter 8 in Human Capital, M. Abramson and N. Gardner (eds.), Rowman and Littlefield, Laham (MD), 2002, pp. 319-354.

"Labor-Management Partnerships: A New Approach to Collaborative Management," (with B. Rubin), PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, July, 2001, (36 pages).

"A Heuristic Model for Collaboration Within Labor-Management Relations: Part II, The Indianapolis Experience" (with B. Rubin), Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 29, No. 2 (June) 2000, pp. 139-151.

"Successful Collaborative Management in the Public Sector: An Empirical Analysis" (with B. Rubin and A. Rolle), Public Productivity and Management Review, Vol. 22, No. 4 (June) 1999, pp. 533-552.

"Creeping Legalism in Public Sector Grievance Arbitration: An Empirical Approach" (with J. Holliday, C. Brown & A. Rolle), Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December) 1998, pp.383-391.

"A Heuristic Model of Collaboration within Labor-Management Relations" (with B. Rubin) Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 185-201, October, 1997.

"Strategies for Teaching a Student-Centered Large Lecture Course in Public Affairs" (with Edmund Hansen), Journal of Public Administration Education, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 329-344, September, 1997.