About the Director |  | Dr. Lois R. Wise |
Lois Wise’s research and teaching interests center on the broad area of public management. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public management and managing workforce diversity. Much of her scholarly work is comparative with a focus on public management reforms. A number of her studies examine bureaucratic behavior. She also has had a long interest in the effects of human diversity broadly defined on organizational performance and effective management. Her current work applies diversity scholarship to the digital divide and issues related to accessibility and responsiveness in the context of E-government. A relatively new prong to her research program focuses on the effects of globalization on the public work force. This includes studies of insourcing foreign professionals into the U.S. public and nonprofit sectors and studies of the effects new laws and policies regarding workforce mobility and citizenship requirements for civil servants and other employees of central governments. In addition to two books, she has published more than 30 articles in many different journals in the fields of public administration and human resource management and contributed more than 20 chapters to edited volumes in the United States and abroad. Her research has been supported by grants from both international and domestic sources. She is a former Fulbright Scholar (Sweden) (1992), recipient of the Swedish Institute Jubilee Prize (1995), the Swedish Bicentennial Fund Research Award (1985), and an Inaugural Fellow, Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership (2005).
Professor Wise has served as consultant to public and private sector organizations in the United States and abroad including long-term projects with the National Institute of Justice in the USA, The Swedish Agency for Government Employers, and the Swedish Local Government Association (Kommunförbundet). Professor Wise joined the SPEA faculty in 1982 but has also served as visiting professor at the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Göteborgs University, University of Örebro, and Umeå University.
