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About the Presenters

Susanne Bruyère

Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, is Director of the Employment and Disability Institute and Associate Dean of Outreach at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations - Extension Division.   Dr. Bruyère is currently involved in a number of employment disability nondiscrimination projects, including a U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)-funded field-initiated research projected entitled Using the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Employment Discrimination Charge Data System for Research and Dissemination Purposes, and a collaborative project with Syracuse and Rutgers Universities funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability and Employment Policy (ODEP) entitled Disability Case Study Research Consortium on Employer Organizational Practices in Employing People with Disabilities.  Susanne also recently served as a consultant to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for a 2006 Research Consultation on Equity and Work on The Measurement of Discrimination and Inequalities: Conceptualization and Methodological Issues. 

Dr. Bruyere is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and Past President of the Division (22) of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE), and the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA). She holds a doctoral degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Contact information:

Susanne M. Bruyère
201 ILR Extension
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Smb23@cornell.edu

Lisa Nishii

Professor Lisa Hisae Nishii joined the ILR School as an Assistant Professor in July of 2003.  She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland and her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College. She won the Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for her work on the attributions that employees make about management’s motivations underlying HR practices. 

Professor Nishii's research focuses on three main areas: (1) Cross-cultural/international; (2) organizational diversity and inclusion; and (3) employee perceptions of organizational practices, or climate.  Her research on culture focuses on theories about, and measurements of, dimensions of cultural variation.  She has worked with colleagues to advance theory and application of individualism and collectivism and cultural tightness-looseness.  Her work on diversity and inclusion focuses primarily on investigating climate for inclusion as well as other moderators of the diversity to performance relationship.  She has been working most recently on multi-level research funded by the SHRM Foundation and the Department of Labor that examines the interplay of organizational practices and climate, leader characteristics, group processes, and experiences in shaping the engagement of workers in general, as well as of aging workers and workers with disabilities in particular.  In her third stream of research, Nishii focuses on employees’ perceptions and experiences of organizational practices.  She is particularly interested in the role of employee perceptions, attitudes and behavior in driving unit and organizational performance.

Professor Nishii regularly presents her research at conferences for SIOP and the Academy of Management, and her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, as well as in other top journals.  Professor Nishii has also worked as an organizational consultant for several organizations on a variety of topics, with the bulk of this work focusing on diversity and inclusion in organizations.

Contact information:
Lisa H. Nishii
363 Ives Hall (East)
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, 14853
lhn5@cornell.edu