John W Budd

John W. Budd is a professor in the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, where he holds the Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair. He is a graduate of Colgate University and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. Professor Budd is president-elect of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). He has taught labor relations to undergraduates, professional master's students, and Ph.D. candidates,...See more

John W. Budd is a professor in the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, where he holds the Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair. He is a graduate of Colgate University and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. Professor Budd is president-elect of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). He has taught labor relations to undergraduates, professional master's students, and Ph.D. candidates, and has published journal articles about teaching labor relations. Professor Budd has received multiple departmental teaching awards as well as a LERA excellence in education award. Professor Budd's main research interests are in industrial relations, especially labor relations. He is the author of The Thought of Work (Cornell University Press), Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice (Cornell University Press), and Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy into Focus (with Stephen Befort, Stanford University Press) and the coeditor of The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (with James Scoville, Labor and Employment Relations Association). He has also published numerous articles in ILR Review, Industrial Relations, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and other journals and edited volumes. He is a LERA Fellow and serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, ILR Review, Human Resource Management Journal, and Labour and Industry. Professor Budd is a recipient of the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, the Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize, and the James G. Scoville Best International / Comparative Industrial Relations Paper Award. In 2023, he served on the [Minnesota] Governor's Committee on the Compensation, Wellbeing, and Fair Treatment of Transportation Network Company Drivers. Professor Budd has been the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies and has also served as the director of graduate studies for Minnesota's graduate program in human resources and industrial relations, one of the oldest such graduate programs in the United States. See less