Elaine K. Yakura, JD, PhD

Elaine teaches at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. She has taught Negotiations (LIR 860) at SLIR and has also taught Organizational Development & Change (LIR 826), Organizational Behavior (LIR 823), and a doctoral seminar in organization theory. She received the Dr. Daniel Kruger Award from the SLIR Alumni Association at the SLIR 50th Anniversary celebration in Fall 2006. She received the Excellence in Education Award from the Industrial Relations Research Association at their annual meeting in January 2002. As an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellow (1998-1999), she developed classroom video teaching techniques.

Elaine's research interests include the study of difference and power in organizations using long-term research methods, and her fieldwork includes studies of information technology consultants in the U.S. and nuclear power plants in Japan and the U.S. Her articles include "Billables: The meaning of time in consulting" in the American Behavioral Scientist (2001), and "Charting time: Timelines as temporal boundary objects," in the Academy of Management Journal (2002). She has a PhD in Organization Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a JD from UC Berkeley.