Alexander Kowalski
People/Faculty
Assistant Professor
Human Resource Studies
Overview
Alex Kowalski is an assistant professor in the Human Resource Studies department. He studies the consequences of passing business risk onto employees and whether employee participation and input can yield better quality jobs and organizational performance. His research is situated in the e-commerce and logistics industry.
He received his PhD from MIT. He also holds a Master’s in City Planning from UC-Berkeley. Before graduate school, he was an economics reporter for Bloomberg News.
Areas of Expertise
Organizations
Human resources management
Employee participation
High Performance Work Systems
Incentives and performance
Technology and work
Workplace cultures
Other expertise
Work schedules, Field experiments