Ellen Ernst Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management and the Inaugural Research Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Kossek is the current elected President of the Work Family Researchers Network (http://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/). She is also Associate Director of the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety, and Health of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Work, Family and Health Network (http://www.kpchr.org/workfamilyhealthnetwork/public/default.aspx), an interdisciplinary national research team collaborating to implement field studies that have the goal of reducing work-family conflict as a pathway to enhance employee and family health and organizational effectiveness. Her research is focused on three areas: 1) leader and organizational support of positive work-life-family relationships to improve productivity, well-being and reduce stress; 2) organizational adaptation to new work forms such as flexible work schedules, workload, and e-working (telework and mobile personal devices); and 3) managing global workforces, gender and diversity across global cultures and contexts.
