Dr. Pamela C. Marett

Associate Professor
Faculty Business Administration - Management

Office: BAB 311
Phone: (432) 837-8071
E-mail: pmarett@sulross.edu

Bio

Dr. Marett earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tennessee. Before joining Sul Ross State University, she served as head of Human Resources for Tower Air, Inc., as it grew from a small to medium-sized company.

She was a faculty member at the University of Oregon College of Business. She has conducted personnel training for the Conflict Management Institute and the International Air Transport Association in Geneva. She served as Secretary of the Airline Human Resources Association in New York and organized the Airline Human Resource Association chapter in Florida.

Dr. Marett is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, Academy of Management, American Economics Association, and Industrial Relations Research Association. She is a Certified Compensation Professional. She has served as Human Resources consultant for small to medium sized companies. Dr. Marett has published and presented numerous papers.

Research Interests

Strategic Human Resource Management, Executive Succession, Service Industry Management

Presentations and Publications

“The Industrial Context of CEO Successor Origin”, submitted November

“Comparison of Air Traffic Control Employment Systems in the United Kingdom and the United States” with Winters and Hundley, forthcoming in the Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector

“The Cost of Training MRO Professionals,” The MRO Labour and Supply Conference, February 2001, London

“Insider or Outsider? CEO Succession in the U.S. Airline Industry,” Proceedings of the 2000 ATRG Conference, July 2000, Amsterdam

“Manpower and Training,” 2nd Annual International Aircraft Economics Conference, May 2000, Miami

“Labor Relations in Small Businesses,” with Winters, Proceedings of the British Academy of Management, September 1999.

"A Comparative Study of Procedural and Substantive Rules,” with Winters, Proceedings of the British Academy of Management, September 1994

“The Role of Airline Corporate Human Resources in Latin American Operations,” Bridging the Americas: Re-Discovery, Understanding, Partnership, 10th Ed., Business Association of Latin American Studies, 1994

“The Role of Airline Corporate Human Resources in International Operations,” Meeting of the Human Resource Management Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Association, January 1994

“Deregulation and the Future of Transportation Trade Unionism in the United States,” with Donn, Labor Law Journal, May 1990

“Success of United States Firms in Latin America: Focus on Transportation and Industrial Relations,” with Dicer, The Annual Meeting of the Business Association of Latin American Studies, April 1988

“Arbitration in the Paper Industry,” with Williams, Labor and Employment Arbitration, ed. Borenstein, 1987

“Public Sector Labor Relations in the Southeast: A Five State Update,” with Jedel, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, May 21, 1987

“Wages in the Deregulated Airline Industry,” Proceedings of the Association of Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior, April 1986

“Industrial Relations Experience in the Public Sector in the South,” and “Manual for Teaching Negotiations,” Seventh Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, October 1986

“Union Bargaining Power in the Transition Period to a Deregulated Airline Industry,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 1985

“Japanese Firms in the United States: Do They Resist Unionization?” Labor Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4, April 1984

“Equal Pay: The United States and the United Kingdom Experience,” Fifth Annual Southern Regional Industrial Relations Academic Seminar, October 1984