Sheldon Zedeck, PhD

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Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces
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Dr. Zedeck, Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and former Vice Provost of Faculty for UCB, has nearly 50 years of experience as an academic and practitioner focused on workplace issues.  He has published research on a variety of topics including employment discrimination, work/life balance, performance management, and employment law compliance.  He has served as an advisor to government and state agencies such as the US Department of Justice, Department of Labor, and the Department of State. He has also advised many organizations and testified in numerous legal cases in an effort to reverse adverse impact against minorities.

Sheldon Zedeck is an industrial/organizational psychologist. His continuing research interests are in three areas: (1) employment selection and validation models, with particular emphasis on reducing adverse impact against minorities; he has conducted research with Prof. Marjorie Shultz, (Law School faculty) that focuses on how to define success in law school and as an attorney and how to predict performance as an attorney; (2) the relationship between work and family, with particular emphasis on how factors in both the work and family environments have reciprocal, causal relationships; and (3) decision making, in particular how individuals process information prior to making decisions.

Research interests: 
statistics, organization, psychology, research methodology, industrial, social psychology, personnel, cross-cultural work values, decision-making research, work and family issues, the work values of Chinese employees
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