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Academic Background

B.A., economics, St. Olaf College
Ph.D., human resources and industrial relations, University of Minnesota

Research Specialties

• Employee job satisfaction and well-being
• Employee retention and turnover
• Work-nonwork interfaces
• Leadership and leader self-development

Current Research

• Linking job satisfaction and well-being with performance
• The impacts of flexibility in work
• The role of emotions and coping in employee turnover
• Development of a model of leader self-development activities
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Major Works

• Rothausen, T.J. and S. M. Christenson, "Leadership." In Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3rd edition, Volume 2: Business Ethics, edited by C. Cooper.  London: Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2013. 
• Rothausen, T.J. and R. L. Sorenson, "Leveraging Family Member Capacity for the Business and the Family." In Family Business and Social Capital, edited by R. L. Sorenson, 155-169. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
• "Unpacking Work-Family: Core Overarching But Under-Identified Issues," Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice 4 (2011): 379-384.
• Rothausen, T.J., J. A. Gonzalez, and A. E. C. Griffin, "Are All the Parts There Everywhere? Facet Job Satisfaction in the United States and the Philippines," Asia Pacific Journal of Management 26 (2009): 681-700. 
•  "Management Work-Family Research and Work-Family Fit: Implications for Building Family Capital in Family Business," Family Business Review 22 (2009): 220-234. 
• "Making the Impact of Gender on Business Leadership Visible: A Tool for Use in Organizations and Education," Leadership Review 7 (2007): 93-110.
• Rothausen-Vange, T.J., J. H. Marler and P. M. Wright, "Research Productivity, Gender, Family, and Tenure in Organization Science Careers," Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 53 (2005): 727-738.
• Power, S. J. and T. J. Rothausen, "The Work-Oriented Midcareer Development Model:  An Extension of Super's Maintenance Stage," The Counseling Psychologist 31(2003): 157-197.
• "'Family' in Organizational Research: A Review and Comparison of Definitions and Measures," Journal of Organizational Behavior 19 (1999): 817-836.
• Rothausen, T. J., Gonzalez, J. A., N. E. Clarke and L. L. O'Dell, "Family-Friendly Backlash - Fact or Fiction?:  The Case of Organizations' On-Site Child Care Centers," Personnel Psychology 51 (1998): 685-706.

Significant Scholarly Honors

• John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as Teacher-Scholar, University of St. Thomas, 2011-12 Award Winner.   
• 2012 paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP; Division 14 of the American Psychological Association) selected for Featured Top Rated Posters session.
• 2009 Family Business Review paper listed above was one of three finalists for best article in the journal in 2009.
• 2003 paper listed above, written with Sally Power, was selected by the journal for Significant Contribution designation.
• 1999 paper listed above was a nominee for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research for best work-family article published in 1999.