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Randy Hodson

Professor

Office: 208 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.8951
Email: hodson.8@sociology.osu.edu

Web: View my web page

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, 1980


Research Interests:

Currently involved in research on organizational mismanagement and informal workplace relations, including peer support, informal training, solidarity, and bullying and harassment. Also involved in research on post-Communist economic and social transformations in Eastern Europe and China.


Recent Publications:

  • 2008 Hodson, Randy. “The Ethnographic Contribution to Understanding Coworker Relations.” (forthcoming at British Journal of Industrial Relations 46, 1 (March):169-192.
  • 2007 Bills, David B. and Randy Hodson. “Worker Training: A Review, Critique, and Extension.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25, 1 (Autumn).
  • 2007 Hodson, Randy. “The Consequences of Management Competence for Working with Dignity: A Cross-Methods Validation.” Pp. 109-133 in Sharon C. Bolton, Dimensions of Dignity at Work. Oxford: Butterfield Heinemann.
  • 2007 Koster, Ferry, Frans Stokman, Randy Hodson and Karen Sanders. “Solidarity through Networks: The Effects of Task and Informal Interdependence on Cooperation within Teams.” Employee Relations 29,2 (March): 117-137.
  • 2006 Hodson, Randy, Vincent J. Roscigno, and Steven H. Lopez. “Chaos and the Abuse of Power: Workplace Bullying in Organizational and Interactional Context.” Work and Occupations 33,4 (November): 382-416.
  • 2006 Sekulic, Duško, Garth Massey and Randy Hodson. "Tolerance in post-War Croatia: Changed Attitudes or a Changing Population?" Ethnic and Racial Studies 29,5 (September): 797-827.