Cynthia Cohen
Professor Emeritus
Professor Cynthia Cohen teaches graduate-level courses in negotiations, conflict resolution, human resources, and improvisation. She has won numerous teaching awards including Graduate Business Association Professor of the Year. An expert in employment rights, labor relations, and negotiation, her areas of research include conflict in organizations and organizational justice.
Cohen is currently studying the effects of changes in retiree benefits and pension plans, improvisation in organizations, and the relationship of game theory to community health. Previous work has been widely published in journals such as Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Dispute Resolution Journal, Journal of Individual Employment Rights, Labor Law Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector,and Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal.
Cohen earned a PhD from Georgia State University, an MBA and BBA from the University of Georgia, and attended the Hewlett Socio-Legal Institute on Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University College of Law. Cohen served on the labor arbitration rosters of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the American Arbitration Association, the USPS, and APWU. She belongs to numerous trade organizations, including the Association for Conflict Resolution, Society of Human Resource Management and the Academy of Management.
- Vita (pdf)
room: BSN 3208 | phone: 813.974.1776 | fax: 813.905.9964 | ccohen@usf.edu
Teaching
- MAN 6930 - Seminar in Improvization
Current Research
Cohen is engaged in research concerning the effect of differences between defined benefit and defined contribution pension plan on employees, the use of the concepts of improvisation in conflict resolution, and the effects on employees of changes in the use of mitigating measures to define the protected category under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Service
Cohen has served on the USF Athletics Council, the NCAA Certification Committee, the College Strategic Planning Committee, the Faculty Executive Committee, and the Tenure and Promotion Committee. She serves on the Editorial Board for the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal and has been an ad hoc reviewer for the Academy of Management Perspective and Information Systems Research.
