FACULTY PROFILE
Banerjee, Snehamay
Baveja, Alok
Broussard, John
Day, Diana
Ganesh, Jai
Goh, Chon
Holtz, Brian
Houston, Franklin
Janes, Troy
Jansen, Ivo
Kahya, Emel
Kaufman-Scarborough, Carol
Kendall, Julie
Kendall, Ken
Kenis, Izzet
Kim, Sungsoo
Koza, Mitchell
Mascarenhas, Briance
Michelfelder, Richard
Morrin, Maureen
Nikiforov, Andrei
Parente, Ronaldo
Pilotte, Eugene
Porter, Gayle
Rabinowitz, Samuel
Ruth, Julie
Sambharya, Rakesh
Schindler, Robert
Spell, Chester
Strizhakova, Yuliya
Sundaresan, Shankar
Theodossiou, Peter
Vance, David
Yaari, Uzi

Faculty Profile

Gayle Porter, Ph.D.
Professor of Management

Office Room: 333
Phone Number: 856-225-6715
E-Mail: gporter@camden.rutgers.edu  
Home Page: www.camden.rutgers.edu/~gporter 
  Vita : Click here (PDF)

Ph.D.,  Ohio State University

Research Interests:  Developing Employee Performance Potential.  Specific sub-headings of research include: Workaholism and Work Ethic (including the impact of technology); Learning; Ethics and Social Responsibility.

Courses Frequently Taught: Organization Change & Development, Social Responsibility of Management, International Human Resource Management, and Performance Improvement / Employee Development.

Professional Activities & Honors:  Member of Academy of Management; Division memberships in Careers and Human Resources. Member of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the SHRM Expertise Panel on Corporate Social Responsibility / Sustainability; related professional certifications include SPHR and GPHR.  Editorial Board member for the journal Human Relations; ad hoc reviewer for a number of additional scholarly journals.  Received citations for quality research and recognition for teaching excellence, including the Lindback award for lifetime contributions to teaching.

Representative Prior Research:
Porter, G. (2009 in press).  Implications of Employer-supplied Connectivity Devices on Job Performance, Work-Life and Business Culture.  WorldatWork Journal.

Kakabadse, N. K., Porter, G. & Vance, D. (2009). The Unbalanced High-tech Life: Are Employers Liable?  Strategic Change, 18, 1-13.

Porter, G. & Perry, J. L. (2008). Animal Farm, Baby Boom and Crackberry Addicts.  In C. L. Cooper and R. J. Burke (Eds.) The Long Work Hours Culture, Causes, Consequences and Choices, pp. 255-274. New York: Macmillan.

Porter, G. (2007). Excessive Work and Its Consequences.  In. C. Wankel (Ed.) Handbook of 21st Century Management, pp. 148-156. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Porter, G. & Kakabadse, N. K.  (2006). HRM Perspectives on Addiction to Technology and Work.  Journal of Management Development, Vol. 25(6), 535-560.

Porter, G.  (2005). A “Career” Work Ethic versus Just a Job.  Journal of European Industrial Training, 29(4), 336-352.

Porter, G. (2004). Work, Work Ethic, Work Excess. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 17(5), 424-439.

Porter, G. (2004). Work, Work Ethic, Work Excess. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 17(5), 424-439.

Porter, G. (2001). Workaholics as High-Performance Employees: The Intersection of Workplace and Family Relationship Problems.  In B. Robinson & N. Chase (Eds.) High-Performing Families: Causes, Consequences, and Clinical Solutions, a monograph in the American Counseling Association’s Family Psychology and Counseling Series, pp.43-69.  Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Porter, G. & Tansky, J.  (1999). Expatriate Success May Depend on a “Learning Orientation”: Considerations for Selection and Training. Human Resource Management, 38(1), 47-60. 

Porter, G. (1998). Will The Collapse of the American Dream Lead to a Decline in Ethical Business Behavior?  Journal of Business Ethics, 17(15), 1669-1678.

Porter, G. (1996). The Organizational Impact of Workaholism: Suggestions for Researching the Negative Outcomes of Excessive Work. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1(1), 70-84.

Media Guide

Dr. Gayle Porter, associate professor of management at the Rutgers School of Business—Camden; former research consultant for several companies, including General Motors. She can discuss:
 

+Business Ethics:
  • Social responsibility without sacrificing profits
  • Ethics and social responsibility of business
+Human Resources:
  • Workaholism and its negative impact on the organization
  • Employee development issues  Organizational behavior
  • Work team effectiveness and issues of trust and cultural diversity
+Career Issues:
  • Workaholism and its negative impact on the organization
+Technology:
  • Technology addiction 
  • Employer liability for technology addiction
  • Workaholism and its negative impact on the organization
  • Employee development issues