Samuel Bacharach

People/Emeriti faculty
Director of Smithers
Smithers Institute
Emeritus Professor
Organizational Behavior
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New York, NY 10022-7062
United States

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Overview

Samuel Bacharach is the Director of the Smithers Institute and is McKelvey-Grant Professor Emeritus. He received his BS in economics from NYU. His MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Upon joining the Cornell faculty in 1974, he spent most of his time working on negotiation and organizational politics, publishing numerous articles and two volumes (Power and Politics in Organizations and Bargaining: Power, Tactics, and Outcome, both with Edward J. Lawler). In the 1980s he continued working on negotiation, but shifted emphasis to the study of complex organizations, with the empirical referent being schools. Besides his academic articles, he published a number of books on school management and leadership, such as Tangled Hierarchies (with Joseph Shedd) and Education Reform: Making Sense of It All.

Areas of Expertise

Absenteeism
Adult learning
Agility
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Change and development
Coalition building
Community and members
Complex organizations
Conflict prevention
Dispute resolution
Distance and Online Learning
Education (organizations and systems)
Employee (EAP) and member assistance (MAP) programs
Employee development
Employee participation
Entrepreneurial firms
Executive development, education, and coaching
Harassment prevention
High Performance Work Systems
Innovation
Instructional design
Leadership
Leadership development
Management coaching and development
Negotiations
Older workers, aging, and pensions
Organizations
Peer effects
Practice and strategy
Strategic planning
Strategic tactics
Stress and the workplace
Theory and behavior
Theory and models
Training and Development

Other expertise

Proactive Organizational Leadership; Organizational Coalitions and Mobilizations; Organizational Politics; Strategic Thinking: Negotiations; Research Strategy; Emotional Well-Being in the Workplace; Organizational and Individual Trauma; Stress and Substance Abuse Research

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , , , & . . Organizational On-boarding Strategies and Shifts in Drinking Behavior and Consequences among At-risk College Recruits. International Journal of Human Resources Management. (DOI:10.1080/09585192.2024.2401580)
  • , , , , & . . Alcohol Use Disorder Among Textile Workers: Evidence from Ethiopia. Journal of Drug Issues, 54(4). (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426231180123)
  • , , , , , & . . Supervisor Undermining, Social Isolation and Subordinates’ Problematic Drinking: The Role of Depression and Perceived Drinking Norms. Journal of Drug Issues, 53(1). (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426221098981)
  • , , , , , & . . Behavior Change Versus Stability During the College-to-Work Transition: Life Course and the “Stickiness” of Alcohol Misuse at Career Entry. Personnel Psychology. (DOI:10.1111/peps.12519)
  • , , , , & . . When Onboarding Becomes Risky: Extending Social Learning Theory to Explain Newcomers’ Adoption of Heavy Drinking With Clients. Human Relations. (DOI:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018726719842653)
  • , , , , , , & . . Does College Alcohol Consumption Impact Employment upon Graduation? Findings from a Prospective Study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(1), 111-121. (PubMed:28836800 )(PubMed Central:10.1037/apl0000244)
  • , , , , , , & . . When the Party Continues: Impulsivity and the Effect of Employment of Young Adults' Post-college Alcohol Use. Addictive Behaviors, 77, 114-120. (PubMed:28992576)
  • , , & . . The Prevalence and Distribution of Aging-Friendly Human Resource Practices.. International Journal of Aging, 81((1-2)), 120-148. (PubMed Central:26663609 )
  • , , , , & . . The Dark Side of Socialization: A Longitudinal Investigation of Newcomer Alcohol Use. Academy of Management Journal, 58(2), 334-355. (DOI:http://amj.aom.org/content/early/2014/03/26/amj.2013.0239.short?cited-by=yes&legid=amj;amj.2013.0239v1)
  • , & . . Predicting Retirement Upon Eligibility: An Embeddedness Perspective. Human Resource Management Journal (US), 53(1), 1-22. (DOI:10.1002/hrm.21548)
  • , , & . . Income decline and retirement wellbeing: The moderating role of attachment. Psychology and Aging, 28(4), 1098-1107. (DOI:10.1037/a0034672)(PubMed Central:24364411)
  • , , & . . Workforce Disengagement Stressors and Retiree Alcohol Misuse: The Mediating Effects of Sleep Problems and the Moderating Effects of Gender. Human Relations, 65(6), 705–728.
  • , , & . . The effects of job control and situational severity on the timing of help-seeking. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17(2), 206-219. (DOI:10.1037/a0026858)
  • , , & . . Social support and wellbeing among blue-collar workers: The conditioning effects of perceived patterns of supportive exchange. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
  • , , & . . Alcohol consumption and workplace absenteeism: The moderating effect of social support. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 334-348. (PubMed:20230073)
  • , , , & . . Retirement and drug abuse: The conditioning role of age and retirement trajectory. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1610-1614.
  • , , , & . . Aging and drinking problems among mature adults: The moderating effects of positive alcohol expectanceies and workforce disengagement. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69(1), 151-159. (PubMed:18080075)
  • , , & . . Firefighters, critical incidents, and drinking to cope: and drinking behavior: The adaquacy of unit-level performance resources as a source of vulnerability and protection. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(1), 155-169.
  • , , , & . . Perceived agency in retirement on retiree drinking behavior: The moderating effects of pre-retirement job satisfaction. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73(3), 376-386. (PubMed:19956364)
  • , , , & . . Aging and drinking problems among mature adults: The moderating effects of positive alcohol expectancies and workforce disengagement. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69(1), 151-159.
  • , & . . 9-11 and NYC firefighters' post-hoc union support and control climates: A context theory of the consequences of involvement in traumatic work-related events. Academy of Management Journal, 50(4), 849-866.
  • , , & . . Harassing under the influence: Male drinking norms and behaviors and the gender harassment of female co-workers. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12, 232-250.
  • , , , & . . Retirement, social support and drinking behavior: A cohort analysis of males with a baseline history of problem drinking. Journal of Drug Issues, 37(3), 525-548.
  • , & . . Abusive supervision and subordinate problem drinking: Resistance, distress and the moderating effect of personality. Human Relations, 59(6), 723-752.
  • , , & . . Diversity and homophily at work: Supportive relations among white and African-American peers. Academy of Management Journal, 48(4), 619-644.
  • , & . . Diversity and the union: The effect of demographic dissimilarity on members' union attachment. Group and Organization Management, 29(3), 385-418.
  • , & . . The power of labor to grieve: The impact of the workplace, labor market, and power-dependence on employee grievance filing. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 57(4), 518-539.
  • , , & . . Driven to drink: Managerial control, work-related risk factors and employee drinking behavior. Academy of Management Journal, 45(4), 637-658.

Trade Publication

  • . . Transforming the the Clunky Organization.

Books

  • , , & . . Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic: The Complex Link between Aging , Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse--and What To Do About It. Oxford University Press.
  • , , & . . Mutual Aid in Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action. Cornell University Press.
  • , , & . . Member Assistance Programs: Labor's Role in the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse. Cornell University Press.
  • , & . . Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Organizational Demography and Current Research Issues. JAI Press.
  • , & . . Tangled: Hierarchies: Teachers as Professionals and the Management of Schools. Jossey-Bass.
  • , & . . Bargaining Power, Tactics and Outcomes. Jossey-Bass.
  • , & . . Power and Politics in Organizations. Jossey-Bass.

Book Chapters

  • , & . . Political alignments in organizations: contextualization, mobilization and coordination. Sage Publications.

Research Reports

  • , , & . . Teacher Compensation Systems and the Quality of Education.
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