Cary Cooper

Cary Cooper at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2010.

Cary Lynn Cooper CBE (born 28 April 1940) is an American-born British psychologist and professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School.

Prior to working at Lancaster University, Cooper was Head of the Manchester School of Management (UMIST) from the early 80s, In 1995 he became Pro-Vice Chancellor and then Deputy Vice Chancellor of UMIST until 2002. From 1979 to 1980 he was chairman of the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management and was elected as Founding President of the British Academy of Management. In June 2005 he was appointed head of the Sunningdale Institute, which, managed by the United Kingdom National School of Government, brings international academics and industry figures together to advise on issues facing UK public sector organisations. Cooper is also a director of well-being specialists and business psychologists at Robertson Cooper Limited, a company which he set up in 1999 with Ivan Robertson. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Cooper is of Romanian descent. He became a British citizen in 1993.

Education

Cooper has obtained a B.Sc., M.B.A., and a Ph.D.

Recognition

Cooper has received the following awards from professional and academic organizations:

• 1994 Fellow of the British Academy of Management
• 1994 Elected a Fellow of the (British) Institute of Management
• 1997 Elected by the (American) Academy of Management as one of the first UK Fellows
• 1997 Became a Companion of the Institute of Management (now the Chartered Management Institute)
• 1998 Awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the (American) Academy of Management for services to the field of management
• 1998 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) for contributions to organizational psychology
• 1999 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration by Wolverhampton University
• 2002 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Aston University
• 2003 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Middlesex University
• 2005 Cooper was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians
• 2006 Cooper was made Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
• 2008 Awarded Hon Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• 2008 Cooper was made an Hon Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
• 2008 Cooper was selected as Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences (body comprised of nearly 88,000 social scientists and 46 learned societies).
• 2009 Cooper was appointed Chair of the Chronic Diseases Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum.
• 2010 Awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award for Higher Education by THE
• 2011 Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by University of Sheffield

Queen's Birthday Honours

Cooper was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of June 2001, with a CBE.

Media work

Cooper is often interviewed by the UK press (including BBC and ITV) for both news and current affairs.

See also

• Workplace bullying

Selected bibliography

  "High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing WE and ME. (with David Bowles), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.S

• Employee Morale: Driving Performance in Challenging Times (with David Bowles), Palgrave-Macmillan October 2009
• Mental Capital and Wellbeing" (with Field, Goswami, Jenkins & Sahakian), Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

  "Managing Executive Health" (with Quick, Gavin and Quick), Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  "Happy Performing Managers" (with P. Hosie), Edward Elgar Publ, 2006.
   "Business and the Beautiful Game" (with T. Theobald), Kogan Page 2005
  

• Leadership and Management in the 21st Century: Business Challenges of the Future, Oxford University Press 2004
• The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management (with C Argyris and W H Starbuck), Blackwell 2004
• Stress: A Brief History (with P Dewe), Blackwell 2004
• International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Vol. 13 (with I T Robertson), John Wiley and Sons 2004
• "Stress: A Brief History" (with P. Dewe), Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
• "Stress reduction: the role of individually targeted interventions", in Handbook of Work Stress, Sage 2004
• Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace (with I T Robertson, J Silvester, B Burnes, F Patterson and J Arnold, Financial Times Prentice Hall 2004
• Managing the Safety Risk of Workplace Stress (with S Clarke), Routledge 2003
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External links

• Official website