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Karlene Roberts

Karlene H. Roberts

Professor Emeritus 
Haas Management of Organizations Group
510-642-5221
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Academic Status: Emeritus
Office Hours: By appointment, F549
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Education

BA, Psychology, Stanford University
PhD, Psychology, UC Berkeley


Positions Held

At Haas since 1968 
2008-present, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business
1968-2008, Lecturer to full professor, Haas School of Business
Research Psychologist, Institute of Industrial Relations
Chair, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management


Visiting Positions

Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


External Service and Assignments

 

 

Recent Consulting: 

BP, 2001 - 2002
Columbia Accident Investigation Board, 2003
University of California Office of the President (Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories), 2004
Risk Management Association, New York City, 2005
Legacy Emanuel Health Center, Portland, OR, 2005
Oil and Gas Advisory Council, Maximo, 2005 - 2008
Association of Space Explorers, Near Earth Object Committee, Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation, 2007 - 2009
Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO), 2009
StatOil, 2009 - 2010
Siemens Worldwide, 2010
 
Editorial Board Service: 
Clinician in Management, Risk Management: An International Review, Handbook of Organizational Studies, Academy of Executive Management, California Management Review,Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Vocational Behavior,Academy of Management Journal

Current Research and Interests

  • The design and management of organizations and systems of organizations in which errors can have catastrophic consequences. The results of this research have been applied to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations, the U.S. Coast Guard, The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), U.S. Federal Aviation’s Air Traffic Control System, Gard Services, the energy industry, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. National Aviation and Space Administration (NASA), B and W Pantex, and the health care industry.

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "After the Dust Settles." Oil, Gas, Energy Law Intelligence Special Issue on Gas Spills, 2010.
  • "Organizational Behavior," with P. Martelli and M. K. Stimmler, in V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.)Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (in press)
  • "A New Approach to Risk: The Implications of E3," with R.G. Bea, et al. Risk Management.
  • "Risk Mitigation in Healthcare Organizations and in Aggregations of those Organizations," with M. Grabowski, in Human Error in Medicine, edited by M.S. Bogner, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • "Decision Making in High Reliability Organizations," with V. Desai and Kuo Yu, in Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, edited by W. Starbuck and G. Hodgkinson, 194-210. London: Oxford., 2008.
  • "Reinventing Flood Control," with D.S. Farber, et al. Tulane Law Review 81: 1085-1127, 2007.

Teaching

  • Introduction to Organizational Behavior, UGBA 105

Honors and Awards

  • Docteur Honaris Causa, Universite Paul Cezanne – Aix, Marseilles III
  • Fellow, Academy of Management, American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society
  • Recent research grants from National Science Foundation; France Telecom; and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Emerald Management Review Citation of Excellence in Management for one of top fifty (from 15,000) management articles of 2006 (with Peter Madsen, Vinit Desai, and Daniel Wong), 2007
  • Fellow, Center for Program/Project Management Research, University Space Research Association (sponsored by NASA), 2004-2007
  • Earl F. Cheit Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching, Undergraduate Program, 2002
  • George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management, for "Organizations, Technology, and Structuring," with M. Grabowski, in Handbook of Organization Studies, edited by S.R. Clegg, C. Hardy, and W. Nord (1996), 1997



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