Chester Spell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management 

	Office Room: 331
	Phone Number: 856-225-6922
	E-Mail: cspell@crab.rutgers.edu
	Home Page: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~cspell

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology

Research interests: Current projects center around employee health and wellness and how organizations respond to these issues. In particular, research projects investigate the adoption of employee substance abuse programs, the benefits organizations provide to employees to help balance work and family demands, and employee perceptions of the fairness of their benefits packages. Another project concerns how managers interpret what constitutes cutting edge or progressive HRM practices and how what is written about these practices in popular media influences their popularity on organizations.

Courses taught: Compensation and motivation; Human Resource Management

Representative Publications:  

Spell, C. & Blum, T. (2005). The adoption of workplace substance abuse programs: Strategic Choice and institutional perspectives. Academy of Management Journal, 48, 1125-1142.

Spell, C. & Arnold, T. A multi-level analysis of organizational justice climate, structure and employee mental health. Forthcoming at Journal of Management.

Spell, C., & Arnold, T. An appraisal perspective of justice, structure, and job control as antecedents of psychological distress. Forthcoming at the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Spell, C. Management Fashions: Old wine in new bottles? (2001). Journal of Management Inquiry, 10,358-37.

Spell, C. & Blum, T. (2001). Workplace pre-employment drug testing: Internal organizational context or response to the institutional environment? Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 6.114-126.

Spell, C. (2001). Organizational technologies and HRM. Human Relations, 54, 235-255.

Spell, C., & Blum, T. (2000) Getting ahead: Organizational practices that set boundaries around mobility patterns. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21: 299-314.

Shane, S., & Spell, C. (1998). Factors for new franchise success. Sloan Management Review, 39, 43-50.          

Blum, T., Milne, S., & Spell, C. (1996). Workplace characteristics and health care cost containment practices. Journal of Management, 22, 675-702.