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Kreiner Wins National Honor for Research in Work and Family

Glen Kreiner, associate professor of management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, and his coauthors Elaine Hollensbe of the University of Cincinnati and Mathew Sheep of Illinois State University have won the 11th annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 10, 2011) – Glen Kreiner, associate professor of management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, and his coauthors Elaine Hollensbe of the University of Cincinnati and Mathew Sheep of Illinois State University have won the 11th annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

The award recognizes the best research paper published during the preceding year in the work and family literature. Named for Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has been identified as the most influential contributor to modern literature on work and family, the Kanter Award is presented by the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work and Family, with the support of Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP) at WorldatWork.

Kreiner and his colleagues won for their 2009 Academy of Management Journal article, "Balancing Borders and Bridges: Negotiating the Work-Home Interface via Boundary Work Tactics." Through interviews with individuals who face particularly extreme challenges in balancing work and home demands—Episcopal priests—Kreiner and his coauthors identify 11 tactics to help employees achieve work-life balance by negotiating the boundaries between their office life and their home life. (More information about the tactics and their research is available online here.)

The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family developed the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award to raise the awareness of high quality work-family research among the scholar, consultant and practitioner communities. The nomination process for the Kanter award selection involves 38 scholarly reviewers from four countries who decide on the winners from more than 2,500 articles.

Kreiner accepted the award on behalf of his coauthors on May 24 at the WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference in San Diego.

For more information on the Kanter Award, visit www.bc.edu/centers/cwf/Kanter.html.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, risk management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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