Joel Fadem
Senior Researcher


Joel Fadem has been with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (formerly Institute of Industrial Relations) as a senior researcher since 1975. He started at UCLA as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Quality Working Life, and has held part time appointments in the Institute of Industrial Relations and the Anderson Graduate School of Management since 1981. 
 
He has worked on a number of projects for private business in the area of organization design and change management as a partner in Potomac Consulting, LLC.. For the past 20 years, he has consulted to Fortune 500 companies on strategic organization design, high involvement work systems, new technology introduction, and union-management cooperation. His recent clients have included Lever USA, Nabisco, General Mills, Coca-Cola, Levi-Strauss, and Hewlett-Packard.
 
He also teaches in the MBA program at the CERAM-Nice School of Management in France and moderates executive leadership programs of the Aspen Institute. Mr. Fadem received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. His postgraduate degrees are in Administrative Sciences and Industrial Relations from Yale and Oxford Universities, respectively.



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