Peter Cappelli
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
cappelli@wharton.upenn.edu

Curriculum Vita

Education
B.S. Industrial Relations, Cornell University, 1978
D. Phil. Labor Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University, 1983. Awards, 

Scholarships, Fellowships

2001 Vault.com’s list of 25 most influential people in field of human capital.

Research Fellow, Australian Center for Industrial Relations  Research and Teaching, 1990-1991.

German Marshall Fund Fellow, 1986.

Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution, Fall 1980.  

Fulbright Scholar, United Kingdom, 1978-1980. 

Studentship/scholar of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1978-1981.

Summer Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research, 1980.     

Irving Ives Award, Outstanding member of the Freshman class, School of Industrial Relations, Cornell University.

Irving Ives Award, Outstanding member of the Sophomore class.

Daniel Alpern Award, Academic leader of the class of 1978.

Positions Held

 Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, since 2000.

George W. Taylor Professor of Management, since 1999.

Chair, Department of Management, The Wharton School, 1995-1998.

Co-Director, U.S. Department of Education's National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce since 1990 ($6 million 5-year grant).

Director, Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School since 1998.

Board of Directors, National Center on Postsecondary Improvement, Stanford Graduate School of Education, since 1996 ($12 million 5-year grant).

Visiting Scholar, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics 1993.

Visiting Professor, Universitia Luigi Bocconi (Milan) 1993.

Staff Member, U.S. Secretary of Labor's Commission, "Work Force Quality and Labor Market Efficiency," 1988-1989.  

Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, since 1993.

Joseph Wharton Term Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1985.  With tenure, since 1989.

Acting Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, 1989.

Assistant Professor, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, 1983.

Research Associate, Sloan School of Management, MIT, 1982. 

Relevant Experience

Member, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committee on the Impact of the Changing Economy on the U.S. Education System, 2000-2001.

Member, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committee Human Performance, 1997-’98.

Member, US Delegation Drafting Committee, International Telecommunication's Union Developmental Conference, 1992.

Member, National Goals for Education, technical subcommittee, 1991.

Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, Cornell University, Employee Relations, University of Manchester, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cornell University (currently), Organizational Dynamics (currently), Journal of Industrial Relations (currently).

Delegate, US/USSR Emerging Leader's Summit (American Center for International Leadership), USSR, 1989.

Industrial Relations Research Association Executive Committee, 1993-96 (elected position); Program Committee, 1992; Research Evaluation Committee, 1988- 1989, Nominating Committee, 1984.

Illinois Education Labor Relations Board Panel of Mediators.

President of the student body/Representative to the Governing Body (trustees), Nuffield College, 1981.

Editor-in-Chief, ILR Forum, student research journal, 1977-1978.

Editor, Daily Labor Report, Employee Relations Reporter, Summer 1977, 1978, Fall 1980, Bureau of National Affairs.

Legislative Assistant, New York State Senate Labor Committee, 1978.

Publications

Refereed Journals:

1. "Comparability and the British Civil Service," British Journal of Industrial Relations. March 1984. pp. 33-45.

2. "Strategic Choice and Industrial Relations Theory." Thomas Kochan, Robert B. McKersie, and Peter Cappelli. Industrial Relations, Winter 1984.  pp. 16-39. Reprinted in U.S. Congress, Oversight Hearings, "Has Labor Law Failed?"  Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, 1984, p. 1181. Excerpted in Clark Kerr and Paul D. Staudohar (eds.). Industrial Relations in a New Age. (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1986). pp. 163-167.

  3.. "Auto Industry Experiments with Guaranteed Income Streams," The Monthly Labor Review. Vol. 107, No. 7, July, 1984, pp. 37-39.

4. "Choice of Theory in Industrial Relations and the Implications for Research," Industrial Relations. Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 1985, pp. 90-112.

5. "Fair Wages and the Industrial Civil Service," Scottish Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 32, No. 1, February 1985, pp. 51-66.

6. "Plant Level Concession Bargaining," Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 39, No. 3, October 1985, pp. 90-104.

7. "Competitive Pressures and Labor Relations: The Response of the Airline Industry,"  Industrial Relations. Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 1985, pp. 316-338.  

8. "Management Strategies and the Redesign of Jobs," Peter Cappelli and Robert B. McKersie, Journal of Management Studies. Vol. 24, September 1987, pp. 441-462. Reprinted in A. Wells (ed.). Advances in the Practice, Theory, and Research of Strategic Human Resources. (New York: Harper Collins, forthcoming). Reprinted in John B. Miner and Donald P. Crane. Advances in the Practice, Theory, and Research of Strategic Human Resource Management. (New York: Harper Collins, 1995.)

9. "Bargaining Structure, Market Forces, and Wage Outcomes in British Coal Mining," Industrial Relations. Vol. 26, No. 2, May 1987.

10. "Satisfaction, Market Wages, and Labor Relations: An Airline Study," Peter Cappelli and Peter D. Sherer, Industrial Relations. Vol. 27, No. 1, January 1988. 

11. "Union Wage Policies and Contract Ratifications: The 1982 and 1984 Auto Agreements," Peter Cappelli and W.P. Sterling, Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 42, No. 12.

12. "Comment on Ratifications" (same issue).

13. "Spanning the Union/Non-Union Boundary at Cummins Engine,"  Peter Cappelli and Peter D. Sherer, Industrial Relations. Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 1989, pp. 206-226.

14. "The Effect of a Two-Tier Wage Plan on Employee Attitudes," Peter Cappelli and Peter D. Sherer, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, January 1990, pp. 225-244.

15. "Is Pattern Bargaining Dead? An Exchange."  Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 44, No. 1, October 1990, pp. 152-156.

16. "An Inter-Plant Test of Efficiency Wage Arguments," Peter Cappelli and Keith Chauvin, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 103, August 1991, pp. 769-787.

17. "An Efficiency Model of Employee Grievances," Peter Cappelli and Keith Chauvin, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, October 1991, pp. 3-14.  

18. "Why Some Jobs Receive Wage Premiums: A Test of Internal Labor Market, and `Tournament,' Peter Cappelli and Wayne Cascio, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 1991, pp. 848-868. Selected as one of the five best articles on personnel/human resources by the Academy of Management in 1991-'92.

19. "Examining Management Displacement," Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 35 No. 1, 1992, pp. 203-217. Excerpted in Chief Executive Magazine, 1993

20. "How Should We Assess Students in Higher Education? Lessons from Industry." Change, November/December 1992, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 54-61.

21. "Are Skill Requirements Rising? Evidence for Production and Clerical Workers." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, April 1993, pp. 515-530.

22. "Rethinking Employment”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, December 1995, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 563-602.  

23. “Rethinking the ‘Skills Gap’”, California Management Review, Summer 1995 Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 108-124.

24. “Distinctive Human Resources Are Firm’s Core Competencies,” Peter Cappelli and Anne Crocker-Hefter, Organizational Dynamics, Winter 1996, pp. 7-22. Reprinted in The Competitive Advantage: Linking Human Resources Practices with Strategy.   (New York: American Management Association, 1996.) Excerpted in Randall S. Schuller, Managing Human Resources. (New York: West Publishing, 1996.) And in Wayne Cascio, Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Worklife, Profits. (New York: McGraw-Hill 1998.)

25.”British Lessons for Youth Apprenticeship Programs," Industrial Relations, Winter 1996.

26. “Technology and Changing Skill Requirements: Implications for Establishment Wage Structures.” New England Economic Review, May/June 1996, pp. 139-154.

27. “Employee Involvement and Organizational Citizenship: Implications for Labor Law Reform and ‘Lean Production.’” Peter Cappelli and Nikolai Rogovsky. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1998.

28. “Career Jobs Are Dead.”  California Management Review, Vol. 42 No1. Fall 1999, pp.146-167.

29. “A Market-Driven Approach to Retaining Talent.” Harvard Business Review, Winter 1999. Reprinted in “Harvard Business Review on Finding and Keeping the Best People.” Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

30. “It Pays to Value Family: Work and Family Values Reconsidered.” Peter Cappelli, Jill Constantine, and Clint Chadwick. Industrial Relations, Vol. 39 No. 2 April 2000, pp.175-198. 2001 Kanter Award Nominee for best research on work and family, Center for Families at Purdue University. Excerpted in the Sunday New York Times, June 19, 1995.  

31. “Do ‘High Performance” Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?” Peter Cappelli and David Neumark, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2001, pp.737-775.

32. “Managing without Commitment.” Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 28 No. 4 Spring 2000, pp.11-24.

33. “The New Deal at Work.” Kent Law Review, Spring 2001. Reprinted in “Global Competition and the American Employment Landscape – As We Enter the 21st Century.” Samuel Estreicher (ed.).  The Hague: Kluwer International, 2001.

 34. “Old Laws Hobble the New Economy Workplace.” Sloan Management Review, Vol. 42 No. 2, Winter 2001, pp.112-114.

35. “Making the Most of Online Recruiting.” Harvard Business Review, Feb/March 2001.

36. “Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill.”  K.C. O’Shaughnessy, David I. Levine, and Peter Cappelli.  Oxford Economic Papers, (3) 2001, 482-507.

37. “The National Employer Survey: Employer Data on Employment Practices.” Industrial Relations, Vol. 40 No. 2 October 2001, pp.635-647.

38. “Why is it So Hard to Find IT Workers?” Organizational Dynamics, (3) 2001, 87-99.

Books:

39. What People Earn. (London: MacDonald-Futura, 1981).

 40. Training and Development. Editor. (London: Dartmouth Publishing, 1994.)

  41. Airline Labor Relations in the Global Era. Editor. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University ILR Press, 1995.)

42. Change at Work (with Laurie Bassi, David Knoke, Harry Katz, Paul Osterman, and Michael Useem). (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).  

43. The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Based Employment Relationship. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

44. Employment Strategies: Why Similar Companies Manage Differently. Editor. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.)

45. The Changing Nature of Work (as a member of the Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance).  Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, a Report of the National Research Council, 2000.

Reports:

44. "Still Working on the Railroad: An Exception to the Transformation of U.S. Labor Relations," (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor-Management   Relations and Cooperative Programs, 1990).

45. "Labor Costs and Labor Relations in the Airlines: A Report to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation," (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation, Department of Economics, 1991.)  Briefing reports with the Secretary July 1991.

46. "Assessing College Student Performance: What Can We Learn from Industry Practices?" Briefing Paper for the National Goals for Education Panel. (Washington, D.C.: National Center on Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, October 1991.)

47. "Is the Skill Gap About Attitudes?" (Philadelphia: National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, February 1992.)

48. "Supply and Demand Factors Affecting Occupational Classifications." (Washington, D.C.: Standard Occupation Classification Revisions Group/Bureau of Labor Statistics, Spring 1995.)

49. "Classification Systems: Lessons from the Standard Occupational Classification Revisions." (Washington, D.C.: Standard Occupation Classification Revisions Group/Bureau of Labor Statistics, Spring 1995.)

50. "Education and Work: Curriculum, Performance, and Job-Related Outcomes." (Washington, D.C.: National Center on Educational Statistics, November 1995.)

51. “The New Employment Relationship and the Effects on Wage Pressure.” Federal Reserve Board of Governors Presentation, Washington, D.C. November 1997.  Reprinted in the Wharton Alumni Magazine, forthcoming.

Other Articles:

52. "The Concession Bargaining Experience," Robert B. McKersie and Peter Cappelli in Avoiding Confrontation in Labour Relations. (Montreal: McGill University Press, 1981).  pp. 15-32. Reprinted in Richard L. Rowan (ed.) Readings in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. (Homewood, IL: Irwin, 4th ed. 1986).  pp. 243-253.

53. "Concession Bargaining and the National Economy," in Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, (Madison, WI: IRRA, 1983). pp. 362-371.

 54. "The Transformation of the Industrial Relations/Human Resources Function," Thomas Kochan and Peter Cappelli, in Paul Osterman (ed.), Internal Labor Markets. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984). pp. 163-190. Reprinted in University of Toronto Personal Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1984.

 55. "Union Gains under Concession Bargaining," in Proceedings of the IRRA, 1983, (Madison: IRRA, 1984).  pp. 297-305.  Selected for excerpting in the Monthly Labor Review. Vol. 107, No. 5, May 1984, pp. 40-42. Reprinted in Lloyd Reynolds, Stanley Masters, and Collette Moser (eds.) Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations. (Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 4th Edition, 1985). pp. 40-41.

56. "The Crisis in Collective Bargaining," Peter Cappelli and Robert McKersie, in Thomas Kochan (ed.) Strategies for the Labor Movement. (Boston: Little and Brown, 1985).     pp. 227-246.  

57. "Airline Industrial Relations in Transition," Peter Cappelli and Timothy Harris, Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association. (Madison: IRRA, 1985). pp. 437-446.  Selected for excerpting in the Monthly Labor Review. Vol. 108, No. 6, June 1985, pp. 37.

  58. "The Effects of Management's Industrial Relations Strategy: Results of A Recent Survey," Peter Cappelli and John Chalykoff. Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association. (Madison, WI: IRRA, 1986). Selected for Excerpting in The Monthly Labor Review. Vol. 109, No. 4, April 1986, pp. 45-47.Reprinted in Business Strategies, (Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1986).

59. "Putting Participation in Perspective" (Comment on William Gomberg), Human Resource Management, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 1986, pp. 365-368.

60. "Airline Industrial Relations After Deregulation," in Collective Bargaining in American Industry.  David B. Lipsky and Clifford B. Donn (eds.),  (Boston: D.C. Health and Co., 1987).

61. "Bargaining with the Bell System after Divestiture," Peter Cappelli and Charles Perry, Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association. (Madison, WI: IRRA, 1987), pp. 191-200.

62. "New Management Strategies and Tactics in Labor Relations," Proceedings of the 40th Annual NYU National Conference on Labor Relations. (New York: Matthew Bender Co., 1987).

63. "Airline Labor Relations after Deregulation," Cleared for Takeoff: Airline Industrial Relations after Deregulation. (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, Cornell University, 1988).

64. "The Role of Unions in Improving Workforce Quality, Labor Market Efficiency, and Effective Employee Management," in Investing in People: A Strategy to Address America's Workforce Crisis, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 1989).

65. "Collective Bargaining," in John Fossum (ed.) Employee Relations Handbook. (Washington, D.C.: BNA, 1990).

66. "The Missing Role of Context in OB: The Need for a Meso Approach," Peter Cappelli and Peter D. Sherer, in Research in Organizational Behavior, L.L Cummings and Barry M. Staw (eds.), (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991).

67. "Economics and Organizational Behavior: Finding a Middle Path for Industrial Relations," Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association. (Madison, WI: IRRA, 1991).

68. "Is There a Future for the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States?" In Russell D. Lansbury (ed.). Industrial Relations Teaching and Research: International Trends. (Sydney: Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching, 1991, pp. 3-40.)

69. "Integrating Strategic Human Resources and Strategic Management," Peter Cappelli and Harbir Singh, in David Lewin, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Peter D. Sherer (eds.), Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. (Madison, WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1993). Reprinted in A. Wells (ed.). Advances in the Practice, Theory, and Research of Strategic Human Resources. (New York: Harper Collins, 1995.)

70. "Youth Apprenticeships in Britain," Phi Delta Kappan, Spring 1996.

71. "New Work Systems and Skill Requirements," Peter Cappelli and Nikolai Rogovsky, International Labour Review, Vol. 133, No. 2, 1994.

72. "Self-Assessed Skill Needs and Job Performance," Peter Cappelli and Nikolai Rogovsky, Albert Tuijnman, Irving Kirsch, and Daniel Wagner (eds.). Adult Basic Skills: Innovations in Measurement and Policy Analysis.  (Paris: OECD, 1995).

73. “Managerial Careers in the Insurance Industry” (with Elizabeth Scott and K.C. O’Shaughnessy), In Paul Osterman (ed.). Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in Transition.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.)

74. Clint Chadwick and Peter Cappelli, “Alternatives to Generic Strategy Typologies in Strategic Human Resources Management.” Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, 1999.

 75. “Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effects on Establishment Performance.” In David Neumark (ed.).  On the Job: Is Long-term Employment A Thing of the Past?  New York: Russell Sage, 2000. Excerpted in Monthly Labor Review August 2000 Vol. 123 No. 8, p. 40.

 76. “Market-Mediated Employment: The Historical Context.  In Margaret Blair and Thomas A. Kochan (eds.) The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation.  Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2000.

Selected Publications for Practitioners and the Public

What Determines Pay? Sir Henry Phelps Brown and Peter Cappelli, Working Together Society monograph, London, 1980.

"Labor Relations Enters New Territory," Management Review, Vol. 75, No. 3, March 1986, pp. 28-31.

 "The Fare Wars Have Just Begun," Philadelphia Inquirer. March 25, 1986, p. 17.

  "Settling Inexorably into Oligopoly" (Airlines after Deregulation), The New York Times Sunday Business Forum, September 7, 1986, p. B2.

  "The Worst of Times for Airline Labor," Newsday. August 27, 1987.

  "Two-Tier Wage Plans," Journal of Commerce. September 1, 1988.

  "Sorry, Perestroika Isn't Enough," The Christian Science Monitor, Monday August 6, 1990.

  "A Lesson for Labor from the American Airlines Strike," Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1993, p. B5.

“ Part time: Good for Whom?” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 8 1997, pp.A31.

“Do Pepsi and Oatmeal Mix?” Wall Street Journal, December 5 2000, p. A26.

Manuscripts Under Review:

“Determinants and Outcomes of Employee Selection Procedures” with Steffanie Wilk.  Center for Economic Studies/U.S. Census Bureau Working Paper, 1998.

“ Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes” with William Carter.  NBER Working Paper, 2000.

“External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility” with David Neumark.  NBER Working Paper, 2000.

“Social Capital and Retraining: What Makes a ‘Good” Employer?”

Major Grants:

1989 -- $55,000 from U.S. Department of Labor to study transportation labor relations.

1991-1996 -- $6 million from U.S. Department of Labor to establish the National Center for the Educational Quality of the Workforce. Co-Director.

1996-2001 -- $12 million from U.S. Department of Labor to establish the National Center for Post-Secondary Improvement (run jointly with Stanford University), Executive Committee member, Project Area leader.

2000 -- $143,000 School-to-Work Office of the U.S. Department of Education to study employer involvement with schools.

2001 -- $150,000 Ford and Rockefeller Foundations Project on Work to support the 2000 National Employer Survey.

2001 -- $83,000 Russell Sage Foundation to examine the determinants of contingent work.

 Selected Presentations:

Pierce Memorial Conference, "Collective Bargaining in American Industries,"  New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1986.

International Conference on Management Strategy and Industrial Relations, Manchester Business School, 1986.

Academy of Management Centennial Panel on Negotiations, 1986.

 Sidney Harmon Lecture (panel), "Airline Experiments that Crashed," Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1987. 

Forty-first Annual NYU Conference on Labor Relations, Keynote Speaker, 1987.

National Mediation Board/Cornell University Conference on Airline Labor Relations, Keynote panel, 1987.

University of Sydney/Australian Center for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching Conference on Industrial Relations, May 1991.

 Keynote Speaker, International Labour Organization Conference on Training (Geneva), 1993.

 Keynote Speaker, National Planning Association Annual Meeting (Washington), 1993.

 Milton Derber Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1998.

 Peirce Memorial Labor Law Lecture, Kent University Law School, 1999.

 Keynote Speaker, Stetson University Law School Annual Conference on Labor and Employment Law, 2000.

 Research seminars at Harvard Business School, MIT, Berkeley,  Wharton, Illinois, Ohio State, Oxford, London School of Economics, University of  Warwick, and Cornell.

 Convener, U.S. Department of Education/National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce Seminar Series, Washington, D.C., 1991-2000.

 Teaching Experience:

 Intermediate micro, macro, and labor economics, Oxford University.

  Collective bargaining, statistics/research methods, and compensation systems, University of Illinois.  Elected to University of Illinois list of Excellent Teachers, 1984.

 Collective bargaining, compensation/labor economics, organizational behavior, and negotiations and conflict resolution, The Wharton School. Nominated for Wharton's Anvil Award for excellence in teaching, 1990. Anvil Award Finalist, 1993.  MBA “Core” teaching award, 1999; 2000; 2001.

 Negotiations and conflict resolution, organizational behavior, U.C. Berkeley.

 Academic Director, Wharton Executive Education Advanced Management Program (AMP); Program on Managing Higher Education/Institute for Research on Higher Education; Human Resource Business School.

 Consulting Experience:

 Consulting included the Strategic Planning Group, General Motors Corporation, the City of Philadelphia, the Franklin Mint, USX Corporation, Middlebury College.  Member of Ford Motor Company’s Global Competency Board and advisory board member of Saba, Vault.com, and Recruitsoft – all human capital companies.