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Adam Seth Litwin Faculty Bio

Adam Seth Litwin, PhD
Assistant Professor

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 234-9420
aslitwin@jhu.edu

Adam Seth Litwin, PhD (Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2008. He is an Assistant Professor in the research track with expertise in the areas of strategic human resource management and employment relations. He is also a research affiliate of the Employment Policy Research Network (EPRN).

Honors and Distinctions

  • 2012 - Labor and Employment Relations Association Refereed Papers Competition (for “A Bicephalous Model of Procedural Justice and Workplace Dispute Resolution”), selection.
  • 2011 - Labor and Employment Relations Association Refereed Papers Competition (for “Not Featherbedding, but Feathering the Nest: Human Resource Management and Investments in Information Technology”), selection.
  • 2009 - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation dissertation prize, first place
  • 2009 - Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) dissertation prize, honorable mention
  • 2009 - Academy of Management, Healthcare Management Division Prize for Best Paper Derived from a Recent Dissertation (for “Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology”), finalist.
  • 2008 - University Council of Industrial Relations and Human Resources Programs, prize for best student paper (for “The Influence of Employment Relations on the Performance Impact of an Electronic Health Record System: Early Results from a Multi-method, Longitudinal Field Study”)
  • 2004 - 2008 - Henning Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 1998 - Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Fellow, London School of Economics

Selected Publications

  • Litwin, Adam Seth.  Forthcoming.  “Not Featherbedding, but Feathering the Nest: Human Resource Management and Investments in Information Technology.”  Industrial Relations.
  • Litwin, Adam Seth.  2011.  “Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology.”  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 64(5): 863-888.
  • Kochan, Thomas A., and Adam Seth Litwin.  2011.  “The Future of Human Capital: An Employment Relations Perspective.”  In Alan Burton-Jones and John-Christopher Spender (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, pp. 647-670.  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Baird, Marian, and Adam Seth Litwin.  2005.  “Rethinking Work and Family: The Making and Taking of Parental Leave in Australia.”  International Review of Psychiatry, 17(5): 385-400.

Selected Working Papers

Teaching Interests

  • Strategic Human Capital
  • People & Markets
  • Employment Policy
  • Topics in Human Resource Management