A principal investigator on several large projects, Professor Mor Barak has received external funding in excess of $1.5 million to conduct research in the areas of workforce diversity, organizational commitment, worker job satisfaction and retention, and business outcomes of organizational social policies. This research led to the publication of numerous articles in the areas of global diversity, worker retention, older workers, disability and employment, and balancing work and family.

She has been invited to give keynote addresses and to lead prestigious conferences around the world. In 2001 she was awarded the highly competitive Rockefeller Foundation grant to hold a conference on global workforce diversity in the Foundation’s Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy with 21 participants from 14 different countries and from six different disciplines. In 2003 she received a Borchard Foundation grant to gather a global think tank of 12 scholars to examine the implications of workforce diversity for legislation, public policies and corporate practices. The think tank met at the Foundation’s Chateau de la Bretesche in Brittany, France.

She has authored three books: Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (Sage, 2005), Social Services in the Workplace (Haworth, 2000) and Social Networks and Health (Garland, 1991). Her most recent book has received critical acclaim and won the 2006 CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles by the Association of University and Research Libraries and the 2007 George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management for the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge.

Professor Mor Barak has received numerous awards of distinction, including a Fulbright Award, Lady Davis Award for international exchange scholars, University of California Regents Award, Distinguished Faculty Award from Los Amigos de la Humanidad, Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentorship and the Sterling C. Franklin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship.

Mor Barak, M.E., and Travis D. 2007. Management: Human Resources Enyclopedia of Social Work, Twentieth Edition (Terry Mizrahi and Larry Davis editors in chief), Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Academic Press (In Press).

Mor Barak, M.E., and Travis D. 2007. Employee Assistance and Counseling. Enyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (George Fink Editor in Chief), Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Academic Press (In Press).

Cho, S. and Mor Barak, M.E. 2007. Diversity, Incusion and Job Performance for Korean Employees, Administration in Social Work (In Press).

Findler, L. Wind, L. and Mor Barak, M.E. 2007. The Challenge of Workforce Management in a Global Society: Modeling the Relationship between Diversity, Organizational Culture, and Employee Well-being, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment. Administration in Social Work, 31(3): 63-94.

Mor Barak, M.E., Levin, A., & Nissly, J.A., Lane, C.J. 2006. Why do they leave? Modeling turnover intentions from child welfare workers’ perceptions of their organizational climate, Children and Youth Services Review, 28(5), 548-577.

Mor Barak, M.E., Schwartz-Nuttman, O., and Findler, L. 2005. “Workforce Diversity and the Inclusive Workplace Model: Implications for Israel.” Work Society and Law (Hebrew), 306-321.

Nissly, J.A., Mor Barak, M.E., & Levin, A. 2005. Stress, social support, and workers’ intentions to leave their jobs in public child welfare. Administration in Social Work, 29(1), 79-100.

Mjelde-Mossey, L.A., Mor Barak, M.E., Knight, B. G. 2004. Coping behaviors as predictors of drinking practices among primary in-hom demential caregivers. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 23(3), 295-308.

Mor Barak, M.E., Travis, D., and Bess, G. 2004. How Well Does Fieldwork Experience Prepare Social Work Students to Become Competent Managers? Administration in Social Work, 28(1), 21-44.

Mor Barak, Findler, and Wind, 2003. Cross-cultural aspects of diversity and well-being in the workplace: An International perspective. Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation, 4(2), 49-73.

Mor Barak, M.E., Nissly, J., and Levin, A. 2001. Antecedents to Retention and Turnover among Child Welfare, Social Work, and other Human Services Employees: What can we learn from past research? A review and Meta-analysis”. Social Service Review (December), 625-661.

Mor Barak, M.E. and Levin A. 2001. Outside of the corporate mainstream and excluded from the work community: A study of diversity, job satisfaction and well-being. Journal of Community, Work and Family, 5(2), 133-157.

Mor Barak, M.E., Findler, L. and Wind, L.H. 2001. Diversity, inclusion, and commitment in organizations: International explorations. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, 2(2), 72-91.

Mor Barak, M.E. 2000. The Inclusive Work Place: An eco-systems approach to organizational diversity. Social Work, 45(4), 339--353.

Mor Barak, M.E. and Bargal, D. 2000. Human services in the context of work: Evolving and innovative roles for occupational social work, Administration in Social Work, 23(3/4), 1-12.
Reprinted as a chapter in M.E. Mor Barak, D. and Bargal, (Eds.) 2000. Social Services in the
Workplace. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press.

Mor Barak, M.E. 2000. Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the Twenty First Century, Administration in Social Work, 23(3/4), 201-210. Reprinted as a chapter in M.E. Mor Barak, D. and Bargal, (Eds.) 2000. Social Services in the Workplace. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press.

Mor Barak, M.E. 2000. Beyond affirmative action: Toward a model of organizational inclusion, Administration in Social Work, 23(3/4), 47-68. Reprinted as a chapter in M.E. Mor Barak, D. and Bargal, (Eds.) 2000. Social Services in the Workplace. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press

Mjelde-Mossey, L. and Mor Barak, M., 1999. The conceptual and empirical link between health behaviors, self reported health and the use of home health care in later life. Quarterly Home Care Journal, 17(3), 71-89.

Mor Barak, M.E., Cherin, D.A., and Berkman, S.. 1998. Organizational and personal dimensions in Diversity Climate: Ethnic and gender differences in employee diversity perceptions. Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences, 34(1), 82-104.

Mor Barak, M.E., and Cherin, D.A.. 1998. A tool to expand Organizational understanding of workforce diversity: Developing a measure of Inclusion-Exclusion. Administration in Social Work, 22(1), 47-64.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1997. Major determinants of social networks in frail elderly community residents. Quarterly Home Care Journal, 16(1,2), 121-137.

Mor-Barak, M.E., Durby D., and Altschuler, J. 1996. Is it really ‘who you know’ that determines getting a job? A study on the role of social networks in a successful job search process for older adults. Journal of Applied Social Sciences, 20(2), 147-157.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1995. The meaning of work for older adults. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 41(4), 325-344.

Mor-Barak, M. E., Scharlach, A. E., Birba, L., Garcia, G., and Sokolov, J. 1995. Employment, Social Networks and Health in the Retirement Years. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 35(2), 143-157.Reprinted as a chapter in J. Hendricks (Ed.) Health and Health Care Utilization, New York: Baywood.

Mor-Barak, M.E., Scharlach, A.E., and Mjelde-Mossey, L. 1995. A model of managed preventive care for retirees: Policy implications for health care reform. Southwest Journal on Aging, 11(2), 17-25.

Mor-Barak, M. E. & Tynan, M. 1993. Older workers and the workplace: A new challenge for occupational social work. Social Work, 38(1), 45-55.

Mor-Barak, M. E., Poverny, L. M., Finch, W. A., McCroskey, J., Seck, E. T., and Sullivan, R. 1993. A model curriculum for occupational social work. Journal of Social Work Education, 29(1), 63-77.

Seck, E.T., Finch, W. A., Mor-Barak, M. E., and Poverny, L. M., 1993. Managing a diverse workforce. Administration in Social Work, 17(2), 67-79.

Scharlach, A.E., Mor-Barak, M.E., Birba, L. and Sokolov, J. 1993. Evaluation of a corporate-sponsored retiree health care program. Journal of Health and Social Work, 19(3), 192-197.

Sharlin, S.A. and Mor-Barak, M.E. 1992. Runaway girls in distress: motivation, background, and personality characteristics. Adolescence, 27 (106), 387-405.

Scharlach, A. E., Mor-Barak, M. E., Katz, A., Birba, L., Garcia, G., and Sokolov, J. 1992. Generation: A corporate-sponsored retiree health care program. The Gerontologist, 32 (2), 265- 269.

Mor-Barak, M.E. & Miller, L. S. 1991 A longitudinal study of the causal relationship between social networks and health of the poor frail elderly. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 10 (3) 293-310.

Mor-Barak, M. E., Miller, L. S., & Syme, L. S. 1991. Social networks, life events and health of the poor frail elderly: a longitudinal study of the buffering versus the direct effect. Family and Community Health, 14 (2), 1-13.

Mor-Barak, M. E., Scharlach, A. E., Tynan, M., Birba, L., Garcia, G., and Sokolov, J. 1991. Striking a balance in retiree health care. Business and Health, April, 56-60.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1988. Support Systems Intervention in Crisis Situations: Theory, Strategies and A Case Illustration. International Journal of Social Work, 7 (2), 285-303.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1988. Social Support and Coping with Stress: Implications for the Work Place. Occupational Medicine, 31 (4), 663-676.

Sharlin, S. and Mor-Barak, M.E. 1983. Bereavement and mourning after a shipping disaster: The case for intervention. Disasters, 7 (2), 142-147.

Mor-Barak, M.E. and Sharlin, S. 1983. Runaway Girls in Distress. Society and Welfare, (Hebrew), 1 (1), 47-62.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1979. Supervisor - Supervisee Relationship According to the Transactional Analysis Approach. Society and Welfare (Hebrew), 1 (2), 25-34.

Mor Barak, M.E. and Wilson, S. 2005. “Labor force participation of older adults: Implications for the social work profession”. In L. Kay (Ed.) Perspectives on Productive Aging: Social Work with the New Aged, New York: NASW.

Mor-Barak, M.E., 1990. Social Support Intervention in Crisis Situations: Theory, Strategies and Implications for a Case of Maritime Disaster. In H.J. Parad and L.G. Parad, Crisis Intervention, New York: FSAA.
* Several articles were also reprinted as book chapters (see above).

Mor Barak, M.E. 2006. Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice, by Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman’s, New York: Columbia University Press. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

Reports to the California State Legislature
Mor-Barak, M.E. 1988. Quality Control for Non-Medical Services, MSSP Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley.

Mor-Barak, M.E. and Walter L. 1988. Medi-Cal Services for MSSP Clients SFY 1986-87, MSSP Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1988. Non-Medical Services for MSSP Clients SFY 1986-87, MSSP Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley.

Miller, M.G. and Mor-Barak, M.E. 1987. Non-Medical Services for MSSP Clients SFY 1985-86, MSSP Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley.

Mor-Barak, M.E. 1986. The Multipurpose Senior Services Program: A Portrait of the Caseload 1984-1985, MSSP Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley.