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Hoyt N. Wheeler



Professor

Management Department

Contact Information
Phone: (803) 777-5959
hwheeler@moore.sc.edu
Biography

Hoyt N. Wheeler is Professor of Management and Business Partnership Foundation Fellow, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.  He holds the degrees of Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (Industrial Relations), JD from the University of Virginia, and BA (cum laude) from Marshall University.  He has been a member of the faculties of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wyoming, and has served as a visiting professor and scholar at the University of Paris I, Sorbonne, and the University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. 

His fields of research include labor and employment law, employee discipline, labor unions, collective bargaining, and international and comparative industrial relations, and has published in such journals as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Labor Studies Journal, Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielles, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.  He is the author or co-author of several books: Industrial Conflict: An Integrative Theory and Workplace Justice: Employment Obligations in International Perspective (University of South Carolina Press), The Future of the American Labor Movement (Cambridge University Press), and Workplace Justice without Unions (W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) (forthcoming).

He is a former president of the Industrial Relations Research Association, as well as a member of its Executive Board and a co-editor of its magazine, Perspectives on Work.  Wheeler served as a Rapporteur for the 1989 World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association.  He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1974
  • J.D. University of Virginia, 1961
  • B.A. Marshall University, 1958

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