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Professor Cary Cooper

Professor Cary Cooper

Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University

Cary L Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health. He is the author/editor of over 120 books (on occupational stress, women at work and industrial and organisational psychology), has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV and radio. He is currently Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Stress & Health. 

He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal Society of Public Health, the British Academy of Management and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Cooper is past President of the British Academy of Management, is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and one of the first UK-based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management (having also won the 1998 Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to management science from the Academy of Management).

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A few months ago, a colleague of mine in the US, Dr David Bowles and I published The High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing Me and We. In the book we argue that the crash in 2008 was not entirely to do with Wall Street greed but also due to ‘toxic corporate cultures’ which over-emphasised the ‘me’ to the detriment of the ‘we’.

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