Anil Verma Professor Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, and Joseph L. Rotman School of Management E-mail: verma@rotman.utoronto.ca Rotman home page Click here for a full CV (in pdf), including all publications. Brief CV Current Research Interests Recent Publications Courses Taught at the CIRHR

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Current Research Interests

Anil continues the themes of his recent book, Contract and Commitment, with his interest in workplace change and collective bargaining in Canada and in the global environment.  He is also working with Jeffrey Reitz on issues of ethnic diversity and equality in the context of unionization.

Recent Publications

Weststar, Johanna and Anil Verma. Forthcoming 2007. "What Makes for Effective Labor representation on Pension Boards?". Labor Studies Journal.

Walsworth, Scott and Anil Verma. 2007. “ Globalization, Workplace Practices and Innovation: Recent Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey ”. Industrial Relations , April, 220-238.

Kuruvilla, Sarosh and Anil Verma. 2006. “ International Labor Standards, Soft Regulation, And National Government Roles”. Journal of Industrial Relations , 48(1), February, 41-58.

Eaton, Jonathan and Anil Verma. 2006. “ Does “Fighting Back” Make a Difference? The Case of the Canadian Auto Workers Union ”. Journal of Labor Research, XXVII, Spring, 187-212.

Verma, Anil. Forthcoming 2005. “What Do Unions Do to the Workplace? Union Impact on Management and HRM Policies”. Journal of Labor Research.

Verma, Anil. And Thomas A. Kochan (Eds). 2004. Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 267p.
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Kuruvilla, Sarosh and Anil Verma. 2004. “Globalization, Logics of Action, International Labor Standards and National Government Roles”. KLI Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy, 4 (2), 25-44.

Reitz, Jeffery and Anil Verma. 2004. “Immigration, Ethnicity and Unionization: Recent Evidence from Canada”. Industrial Relations, 43(4) October, 835-854.

Verma, Anil. 2003. “Global Labour Standards: Can we get from here to there?” International Comparative Journal of Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 19(4), Winter, 515-534.

Singh, Gangaram and Anil Verma. 2003. “Work History And Later Life Labor Force Participation: Evidence From A Large Telecommunications Firm”. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 56(4), 699-715.

Lonti, Zsuzsanna and Anil Verma. 2003. "The Determinants of Flexibility and Innovation in the Government Workplace: Recent Evidence from Canada". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 13(3), 283-310.

Fang, Tony and Anil Verma. 2002. "Union Wage Premium". Perspectives on Labour and Income, Vol. 14 no. 4, 17-23. For a brief summary go to: http://www.statcan.ca/english/indepth/75-001/online/0090275-001-XIE.html

Lonti, Zsuzsanna, Sara Slinn and Anil Verma. 2002. "Can Government Workplaces be made World-class?: Policy Challenges for Public Service Reform". Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 9(3), 335-360.

Verma, Anil, Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen Wood. 2002. "Union Decline and Prospects for Revival". British Journal of Industrial Relations, 40(3), September, 373-384.

Verma, Anil, Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen Wood, editors. 2002. Special Issue on "Union Decline and Prospects for Revival". British Journal of Industrial Relations. 40(3), September.

Verma, Anil and Morley Gunderson. 2001. “Labouring for Advantage: Worker Stakes in a Gobalising Economy”. Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 44 (3), July-September, pp.363-374.

Verma, Anil and Sara Slinn. 2000. “Labor Policy in the Internet Age: Europe’s Answer to the Market Challenge”, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 21(4), summer, 703-713.

V.W. Marshall, W. Heinz, H. Krueger and A. Verma (Eds.). 2001. Restructuring Work and the Life Course. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 544p.

"Emerging HRM Paradigms for a Knowledge Economy," A paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Human Resource Professionals of Ontario. February 14-16, 2001, Toronto (PDF downloadable document, 95KB)

"Employee Involvement in Nonunion Firms: What Canadian Employers Do and Why?" in Bruce Kaufman and Daphne Taras, eds., Employee Involvement in Nonunion Organizations. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. (Full text available at http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~verma/).

Contract and Commitment: Employment Relations in the New Economy. Kingston, Ont.: Queen's IRC Press, 1999. (Anil Verma and Richard Chaykowski, eds).

Courses Taught at the CIRHR

IRE 2001H Foundations of the Employment Relationship

MGT 2609H Strategic Human Resource Management