Rate My Professor Tim Chandler

Timothy D. Chandler is the William W. and Catherine M. Rucks University Professor of Management in the Rucks Department of Management at Louisiana State University’s E. J. Ourso College of Business. He holds a PhD in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991), an AM in Labor and Industrial Relations from the same institution (1988), and a BA in Political Science from the University of Missouri at Columbia (1985). Chandler’s teaching encompasses labor relations, negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, and regulation of employment practices. His research specializes in private and public sector labor relations and regulation of employment practices, contributing to scholarly understanding of unionization, privatization, and collective bargaining dynamics.

At LSU, Chandler has advanced through prominent academic and administrative roles, including Professor, former Chair of the Rucks Department of Management, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs. His distinguished service includes membership on the University Budget Committee and the editorial board of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. Key publications reflect his expertise: “Cities, Unions, and the Privatization of Sanitation Services” (Journal of Labor Research, 1994), “Sanitation Privatization and Sanitation Employees’ Wages” (Journal of Labor Research, 1994), “Toward Identifying the Determinants of Public-Employee Unionization” (American Review of Public Administration, 1996), “Management Chief Negotiators, Bargaining Strategies, and the Likelihood of Impasse in Public Sector Collective Bargaining” (American Review of Public Administration, 1998), “Operational Performance: The Mediator Between Human Capital Developmental Practices and Firm Performance” (Journal of Business Research, 2019), and “Sourcing Human Capital for Organizational Effectiveness: Sourcing Strategy, Employee Selection, and Employee Performance” (International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023). With 26 research works and over 400 citations on ResearchGate, Chandler’s scholarship has influenced labor-management relations research and public policy discussions. He has served on numerous doctoral dissertation committees, mentoring the next generation of management scholars.