Visiting Professor
Work & Organisational Psychology Group
Profile
Professor
Cooper holds many distinctions, including: CBE (Commander of the Order
of the British Empire, awarded 2001), Fellow of the British
Psychological Society, Honorary Member of the Psychosomatic Research
Society (of Great Britain), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Member
of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of The Royal Society of
Medicine, Fellow of the Royal Society of Health, Fellow of the British
Academy of Management, Companion of the (British) Chartered Management
Institute, Fellow of The (American) Academy of Management, Academician
to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
He
has also been a temporary adviser to two United Nations agencies: the
World Health Organization and the International Labour Office on
`Occupational Stress and Health'.
He has been invited to deliver
major addresses across the world and is the recipient of the BPS `Myers
Lecture’, the `Bolland Lecture’, `The Crystal Lecture’, `Sir John
Cockcroft Lecture’, Aston University `Centennial Lecture’ (on
Management), The Society of Occupational Medicine’s `Apothecaries
Lecture’, and many others.
Leadership Roles
At the
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Professor
Cooper was Head of the Manchester School of Management in the early 80s
and from 1995–2002 was Pro-Vice and then Deputy Vice Chancellor of
UMIST. He was also past Chairman of the Management Education and
Development Division of the (American) Academy of Management
(1979-1980), and was elected as the first and Founding President of the
British Academy of Management and is the current President.
He
was also Chair of the British Academy of Management `Fellowship
Committee’; former Chair of Alcohol Concern's commission on a National
Strategy for Training in Alcohol Work; Chair of the UK government's
Higher Education Funding Council's Research Assessment Exercise in
1996, and again in 2001, for rating all UK Business and Management
Schools, Chair of the (American) Academy of Management `Distinguished
Awards Panel’ for 1999, was a Board Member of the Economic & Social
Research Council’s Research Priorities Board 1998-2000. He is currently
a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Stress
and on the Advisory Council of the (US) National Institute of the
Clinical Applications of Behavioral Medicine. He was elected President
of the British Academy of Management 1998 (for a second time) and is
still serving; President of the international medical research body,
The International Society for the Investigation of Stress (ISIS) 1999 -
2000; President of the (UK) Institute of Welfare Officers 1999-; Vice
President of the British Association of Counselling 2000-; President of
the (UK) International Stress Management Association; he was also
elected (July 2000) by 13,000 Professors of Management to the Board of
Governors of the (American) Academy of Management, 2000 - 2003.
Professor
Cooper is one of 15 national Ambassadors of the Samaritans, a Patron of
the National Phobic Society, a former Trustee of the mental health
charity Mentality, as well as having worked for Comic Relief, Antidote
and other charitable bodies. He was Chair of the 2002 International
& Commonwealth Games Scientific Congress, held in conjunction with
the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Editorial and Publishing Responsibilities
Professor
Cooper is the Editor (together with Professor Chris Argyris of Harvard
Business School) of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, a
twelve-volume scholarly international Encyclopedia of the management
sciences, published in January 1997 and about to be re-published
online. He is currently Founding Editor of the international quarterly
journal the Journal of Organizational Behavior, published by John Wiley
and Sons, New York and London; and co-Editor of the medical journal
Stress & Health (John Wiley & Sons), and former co-editor of
the management journal International Journal of Management Reviews
(Blackwells Publications). Professor Cooper is the Editor-in-Chief of
the Who’s Who in the Management Sciences (Edward Elgar Publishers);
Editor of the 2-volume Classics in Management Thought; Editor of
4-volume Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior. He is also on the
editorial board of a number of other international quarterly journals:
Journal of Applied Psychology (APA journal), Journal of Occupational
Health Psychology (APA journal), Human Resource Management Review,
British Journal of Management, Journal of Health & Aging, Journal
of Managerial Psychology, Community, Work & Family, Health, Risk
& Society, Analise Psicologica (Portuguese Journal of Applied
Psychology), Counselling Psychology, Journal of Organizational Change
Management, Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Employee
Rights and Responsibility Journal, International Journal of
Occupational Safety & Ergonomics, and many more.
Professor
Cooper is the author of over 300 scholarly articles in academic
journals, the author / editor of over 100 books, and has been a
contributor to many newspapers (e.g., Sunday Times, The Guardian, The
Daily Telegraph, etc.) on topics of managerial and organisational
behaviour.
Other Professional Activities
He has been
invited to give major addresses in international conferences and
universities (e.g., International Monetary Fund, Hong Kong Occupational
Safety & Health Commission, Free University of Berlin, University
of Bergen, University of Stockholm, University of Tilberg, University
of Braga, University of Amsterdam, Queens University (Canada),
University of Virginia, etc.), and to government and international
bodies all over the world: Japan, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland,
US, Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Portugal, Australia, Hong Kong, etc. He
has appeared regularly on British radio and TV, and co-wrote and
presented a five-part (30 minutes each) documentary series on work
stress for Thames TV entitled How to Survive the 9 to 5, which was
shown four times on Channel 4 in the UK.
