labor and employment relations association type labor relations and human resources management founded 1947 headquarters champaign ill . usa key people paula d. wells executive director slogan shaping the workplace of the future website http www.leraweb.org the labor and employment relations association lera founded in 1947 as the industrial relations research association is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources . headquartered at the school of labor and employment relations at the university of illinois at urbana champaign the national organization has more than 3 000 members . lera is a non profit non partisan organization that draws its members from the ranks of academia management labor and neutrals arbitrators and mediators . the organization uses the slogan advancing workplace relations . lera s constituencies are professionals in the areas of academic research and education compensation and benefits human resources labor and employment law labor and management resources labor markets and economics public policy training and development and union administration and organizing . the executive director of lera is paula wells . past presidents of lera include john t. dunlop george shultz and ray marshall all of whom went on to serve as u.s. secretary of labor . contents 1 history 2 employment policy research network 3 publications 4 administration and organization 4.1 chapters 4.2 membership 4.3 awards 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit this section needs expansion . you can help by adding to it . december 2011 employment policy research network edit at the 2011 january annual meeting lera launched the employment policy research network web site eprn . it originally consisted of about 100 researchers economists ; management human resources and labor relations researchers ; attorneys historians and sociologists from 30 universities including california berkeley columbia cornell illinois massachusetts several campuses mit michigan michigan state northeastern rutgers stanford and ucla as well as universities in canada and the united kingdom . in march 2011 the first cohort of doctoral students from mit and cornell joined eprn as graduate student researchers who are sponsored by eprn researchers . as of may 1 2011 there were 125 eprn researchers from 50 universities . eprn received start up funding from the rockefeller foundation and russell sage foundation . the eprn principal investigator is thomas a. kochan george maverick bunker professor of management at mit s sloan school of management and co director of both the mit workplace center and the institute for work and employment research . eprn is an employment research repository and virtual collaboration space whose mission is to replace ideology and partisan rhetoric with facts and objective evidence based research in discussions of u.s. employment work and labor . eprn s goal is to provide the data research policy proposals and reasoning to improve national and state employment laws policies and practices . ultimately eprn realizing its mission means to contribute to healthier and more productive lives of american workers and their families to promote general economic prosperity and to enable the nation to compete successfully in the global economy . like lera its parent organization eprn is non profit and non partisan . eprn divides the large subject of employment and work into 15 topics and research clusters of 20 40 researchers employment regulations equal employment opportunity globalization employment and labor standards immigration industry studies strategies labor and employment law labor force demographics supply labor management relations regional economic development adjustment skills work and technology social insurance unemployment jobs deficit growth wages compensation work family policy publications edit lera publishes a number of research reports and books as well as an annual compendium of research an annual proceedings a newsletter and a membership director . it also publishes the biannual journal perspectives on work . the lera labor and employment law section publishes a monthly online newsletter that is posted on the lera website and distributed through the main lera listserve . administration and organization edit chapters edit the labor and employment relations association has more than 50 local chapters where members meet colleagues in the private public and federal sectors as well as faculty from local universities and third party neutrals . local chapter members value the opportunity to learn about matters of importance in their area and to exchange observations and ideas informally with chapter speakers and members . membership edit lera organizational members include unions management schools universities academic schools and departments law firms and institutes . individual members come from the ranks of academe labor management and neutrals . the organization provides professional development for human resource professionals union members corporate and non profit managers ; national state and local government employees ; arbitrators and mediators ; labor attorneys and others . lera holds an annual membership and professional development meeting in january each year as part of the allied social sciences association and its national policy forum in alternate years in june in washington d.c. in 2011 lera held its 63rd annual meeting in denver colo. the 2011 national policy forum june 6 7 2011 is titled competition jobs and equity in the economic recovery . awards edit lera offers a number of awards recognitions and grants each year . its most prestigious award is the john t. dunlop scholar award . two dunlop scholar awards are given each year . one goes to an academic who makes the best contribution to international and or comparative labor and employment research . a second award recognizes an academic for research that addresses an industrial relations employment problem of national significance in the united states . other awards include thomas a. kochan and stephen r. sleigh best dissertation award chapter merit awards excellence in education awards lera fellows lifetime achievement award james g.scoville best international paper award john t. dunlop scholar awards outstanding practitioner awards susan c. eaton scholar practitioner award susan c. eaton scholar practitioner grant michael r. losey human resource research award sloan industry fellowships woodrow wilson women s studies dissertation grant see also edit list of human resource management associations references edit this article does not cite any sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message external links edit labor and employment relations association employment policy research network eprn retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title labor and employment relations association & oldid 647071627 categories professional associations based in the united statesorganizations established in 1947organizations based in illinoishuman resource management associations1947 establishments in illinoishidden categories articles to be expanded from december 2011all articles to be expandedarticles using small message boxesarticles lacking sources from december 2011all articles lacking sources navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 08 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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