Professor Cary Cooper CBE
Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health
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Until October 2003 Cary Cooper held a chair at UMIST where he was formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor. He is Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), and the universities of Sheffield, Exeter and Liverpool, and holds honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt, Wolverhampton, Aston and Middlesex universities.
Professional Distinctions
Professor Cooper was honoured with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2001. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (and honoured by the Society with the distinguished Myers Lecture in l986), and awarded an Honorary Membership of the Psychosomatic Research Society (of Great Britain). In 1990, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 1993 became a Member of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1995, he was elected Fellow of the The Royal Society of Medicine; and in 1997 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health. He has also been a temporary adviser to two United Nations agencies: the World Health Organization and the International Labour Office on 'Occupational Stress and Health'. Professor Cooper was specialist adviser to the Defence Committee of the House of Commons in their Duty of Care enquiry in 2004-05. In June 2005 Professor Cooper was appointed by the Cabinet Secretary as Chair of the Sunningdale Institute in the National School of Government in the Cabinet Office.
He was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Management in 1994, and was elected a Fellow of the (British) Institute of Management. The (American) Academy of Management honoured him by electing him as one of the first UK Fellows in 1997, and in that same year was honoured as a Companion of the Institute of Management (now the CMI). In 1998 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the (American) Academy of Management for services to the field of management, and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) for contributions to organizational psychology; in 1999 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration by Wolverhampton University; in 2002 an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Aston University; in 2003 an Honorary Doctorate by Middlesex University; and in 2005 was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.
He has been invited to deliver major addresses across the world and is the recipient of the BPS 'Myers Lecture', the `Bolland Lecture’, `The Crystal Lecture’, `Sir John Cockcroft Lecture’, Aston University `Centennial Lecture’ (on Management), The Society of Occupational Medicine’s `Apothecaries Lecture’, and many others. In July 2000, Professor Cooper was elected as Academician to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and is an Honorary Professor, Albert Schweitzer International University, Madrid, Spain.
Leadership Roles
At the UMIST, Professor Cooper was Head of the Manchester School of Management in the early 80s, and from 1995 – 2002 was Pro-Vice Chancellor and then Deputy Vice Chancellor of UMIST. He was also past Chairman of the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management (1979-1980), and was elected as the first and Founding President of the British Academy of Management and served for 4 years in this role (1986-1990).
He was also Chair of British Academy of Management `Fellowship Committee’; former Chair of Alcohol Concern's commission on a National Strategy for Training in Alcohol Work; Chair of the UK government's Higher Education Funding Council's Research Assessment Exercise in 1996, and again in 2001, for rating all UK Business and Management Schools; Chair of the Academy of Management `Distinguished Awards Panel’ for 1999; was a Board Member of the Economic & Social Research Council’s Research Priorities Board 1998-2000; is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Stress and on the Advisory Council of the (US) National Institute of the Clinical Applications of Behavioral Medicine. He was elected President of the British Academy of Management in 1998 (for a second time), serving until December 2004; President of the international medical research body, The International Society for the Investigation of Stress (ISIS) 1999 - 2000; President of the (UK) Institute of Welfare Officers 1999 -; and Vice President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy 2000; President of the (UK) International Stress Management Association, and was also elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management 2000 – 2003.
Professor Cooper is also one of 15 national Ambassadors of the Samaritans, a Patron of the National Phobic Society, Patron of Anxiety Care, a former Trustee of the mental health charity Mentality, as well as having worked for Comic Relief, Antidote and other such charitable bodies. He was also Chair of the 2002 International & Commonwealth Games Scientific Congress, held in conjunction with the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
Editorial and Publishing Responsibilities
Professor Cooper is the Editor (together with Professor Chris Argyris of Harvard Business School and Professor Bill Starbuck of New York University as Associate Editors) of THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MANAGEMENT, a twelve-volume scholarly international Encyclopaedia of the management sciences, first published in January 1997, and extensively revised in 2005. He is also currently Founding Editor of the international quarterly journal, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, published by John Wiley and Sons, New York and London; and co-Editor of the medical journal Stress & Health (John Wiley & Sons), and former co-editor of the management journal International Journal of Management Reviews (Blackwells Publications). Professor Cooper is the Editor-in-Chief of the Who’s Who in the Management Sciences (Edward Elgar Publishers); Editor of the 2 Volume Classics in Management Thought; Editor of 4 volume Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior; Series Editor for New Horizons in Management. He is (or was) also on the Editorial Board of a number of other international quarterly journals: Journal of Applied Psychology (APA journal), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (APA journal), Human Resource Management Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Health & Aging, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Community, Work & Family, Health, Risk & Society, `Analise Psicologica' (Portuguese Journal of Applied Psychology), Counselling Psychology, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Employee Rights and Responsibility Journal, (Polish) International Journal of Occupational Safety & Ergonomics, Esade-Deusto Series Managing People in the 21st Century Organizations (Spain) and many more.
Professor Cooper and Professor Starbuck are the Editors of a six volume scholarly companion on WORK, Published by Sage Publishers 2005. He is also the author of nearly 400 scholarly articles in academic journals, and has been a contributor to many newspapers (e.g., Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, etc.) on topics of managerial and organizational behaviour.
Other Professional Activities
He has been invited to give major addresses in international conferences and universities abroad (e.g., International Monetary Fund, Hong Kong Occupational Safety & Health Commission, Free University of Berlin, University of Bergen, University of Stockholm, University of Tilberg, University of Braga, University of Amsterdam, Queens University (Canada), University of Virginia, etc.), and to government and international bodies all over the world: Japan, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland, US, Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Portugal, Australia, Hong Kong, etc. He has also appeared regularly on British radio and TV, and co-wrote and presented a five-part documentary series on workplace stress for Thames TV entitled "How to Survive the 9 to 5", which was shown on Channel 4 TV.
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Selected Publications
- Cartwright S and Cooper CL, forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN: 0199234736
- Cartwright S and Cooper CL, forthcoming, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well Being, Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Bichard E and Cooper CL, 2008, Positively Responsible: How Business Can Save the Planet, Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, ISBN: 9780750684750
- Quick JC, Cooper CL, Gavin JH and Quick JD, 2008, Managing Executive Health, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 9780521688642
- Cooper CL and Sutherland V, 2006, 'Stress and the changing nature of work', in Creating the Productive Workplace, (eds) Clements-Croome D, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, ISBN: 0415351383
- Argyris C, Starbuck WH and Cooper CL, 2004, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management, Blackwell, Oxford, ISBN: 0-6312-3317-2
- Cooper CL, 2004, Leadership and Management in the 21st Century: Business Challenges of the Future, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN: 0-19-926336-1
- Dewe P and Cooper CL, 2004, Stress: A Brief History, Blackwell, Oxford, ISBN: 1405107456
- Cooper CL and Cartwright S, 2004, 'Stress reduction: the role of individually targeted interventions', in Handbook of Work Stress, (eds) Barling J, Kelloway EK and Frone MR, Sage, London, ISBN: 0-7619-2949-5
- Cooper CL, Robertson IT, Silvester J, Burnes B, Patterson F and Arnold J, 2004, Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace, Financial Times Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-273-65544-2
