Pitt Business: Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration

Marick F. Masters

Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Public and International Affairs
Director, Center on Conflict Resolution and Negotiation

Office: 328 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1597
E-mail: marick@katz.pitt.edu

Degrees

PhD in Labor and Industrial Relations, The University of Illinois
MPA, Southern Illinois University
BS, University of Illinois

Courses Recently Taught

BOAH 2519 & 2520 Negotiating in Business 1 & 2
BOAH 2537 & 2538 Conflict Resolution in the Workplace 1 & 2
BUSHRM 1665 Negotiating in Business (CBA)

Interest Group

Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

Profile

Marick Masters teaches negotiations and conflict resolution in MBA and executive programs. His current interests focus on organizational health; negotiations; conflict resolution; the management of political, governmental, and nonprofit organizations; and the political influence of economic institutions. He has published extensively on a wide variety of business and organizational topics in numerous disciplines. Masters serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Research, edits the annual volume International Perspectives on Employment Dispute Resolution, and is the editor of the Association for Conflict Resolution Workplace Section News. He serves on the Leadership Council of the ACR Workplace Section.

Masters has had extensive administrative, consulting, and media experience. He has served Director of MBA Programs and Associate Dean Interim of the Katz Graduate School of Business. He is a senior partner in AIM Consulting (Albright, Irr and Masters), with offices in New London, CT and Pittsburgh, PA. He has consulted on a broad range of managerial issues with senior executives among numerous Fortune 500 and major public sector and nonprofit organizations. He is a frequent keynote speaker. He is widely interviewed by and quoted in electronic and print media. In addition, Masters has been a candidate for the U.S. Congress.

Publications

Marick F. Masters and Robert R. Albright. 2002. The Complete Guide to Conflict Resolution in the Workplace. New York: AMACOM.

Marick F. Masters. 1997. Unions at the Crossroads: Strategic Membership, Financial, and Political Perspectives. Westport, CT: Quorum.

Marick F. Masters, Ray Gibney, and Tom Zagenczyk. "How Unions Use Political Action to Organize." International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior, forthcoming.

Marick F. Masters, Ray Gibney, and Tom Zagenczyk. 2006. "The AFL-CIO v. CTW: The Competing Visions, Strategies, and Structures." Journal of Labor Research, forthcoming.

Marick F. Masters, Robert R. Albright, and David Eplion. 2006. "What Did Partnerships Do? Evidence from the Federal Sector." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 59, 3 (April): 367-85.

Marick F. Masters. 2006. "Reforming Human Resources Management in the Federal Sector." Perspectives at Work, 9, 2 (Winter): 29-30.

Marick F. Masters and Robert R. Albright. 2005. "How Internal Stakeholder View Partnership, Implications for Future Federal Sector Labor-Management Relations." Review of Public Personnel Administration, 25, 4 (December): 358-383.

Marick F. Masters and John T. Delaney. 2005. "Organized Labor’s Political Scorecard," Journal of Labor Research, 26, 3 (Summer): 365-392.

James T. Bennett and Marick F. Masters. 2004. "The Future of Public Sector Labor-Management Relations: Part III – Challenges to Unions." Journal of Labor Research 25 (Spring): 189-190.

Marick F. Masters. 2004. Federal Sector Unions: Current Status and Future Directions." Journal of Labor Research 25 (Winter): 55-82.

Marick F. Masters. 2004. "Unions in the 2000 Election: A Strategic-Choice Perspective." Journal of Labor Research 25 (Winter): 139-182.

Marick F. Masters, Robert R. Albright, and Frank Irr. 2003. "Another Hat for HR: Negotiator in Chief." HR Magazine 48 (June): 118-124.