Michael H. Schuster, Ph. D., Managing Partner

Michael Schuster was, until recently, Professor of Management and Human Resources at Syracuse University. Dr. Schuster is a former Fulbright Scholar from the London School of Economics (1982 - 83) and also served as the founding Director of the Employment Studies Institute at Syracuse University (1985 - 88).

Dr. Schuster is one of the recognized authorities in human resource and compensation strategy, gainsharing and variable pay, and other performance-driven compensation systems. He has completed the only longevity-oriented research on performance-based pay program effectiveness in this country, and is often cited in books and articles on the subject.

He has presented more than one hundred papers at professional conferences. Dr. Schuster has published more than fifty articles on human resource and compensation strategy, union-management cooperation, productivity improvement programs and employee involvement, and gainsharing and compensation practices. His research and design of union-management partnerships is internationally renowned. He is the author of Union-Management Cooperation: Structure-Process-Impact.

Dr. Schuster's research has been supported by the General Electric Foundation, National Science Foundation and the US Department of Labor. He has been a consultant to numerous companies and unions in the United States and Western Europe. Dr. Schuster's clients include General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, Whirlpool, Ciba-Geigy (Novartis), Armstrong World Industries, Westinghouse, Titleist and Foot-Joy, United Technologies (Carrier), Kellogg, Reynolds Metals, and numerous others.