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Phyllis Moen

Protrait: Phyllis Moen

Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology
Ph.D. 1978 University of Minnesota
Room 1123 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-625-5483
Email: phylmoen@umn.edu
Website: www.soc.umn.edu/~moen/

Curriculum Vitae

Flexible Work and Well-Being Study

Interest Areas

Work, Family, Health, Policy, Age and the Gendered Life Course.

Current Research

Prof. Moen investigates organizational work-time policies and practices, employee time strains, psychological and physical health outcomes; and the work-family interface to make it more compatible with the rest of life. She co-directs (with Prof. Erin Kelly) the Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, part of a larger NIH-funded research network initiative studying ways to promote individual and family health and life quality by increasing the degree of flexibility around the clockworks of paid work.  Prof. Moen also engages in research on gender, couples, and time use, as well as work, retirement and volunteering in the life course.

Selected Publications

“Dual Earners Preparing for Job Loss: Agency, Linked Lives, and Resilience” with Stephen Sweet. 2012. Work & Occupations 39(1): 35-70.

“Changing Work, Changing Health: Can Real Work-Time Flexibility Promote Health Behaviors and Well-Being?” with Erin Kelly, Eric Tranby, and Qinlei Huang. 2011. Journal of Health and Social Behavior  52: 404-429.

“Does Enhancing Work-Time Control and Flexibility Reduce Turnover? A Naturally-Occurring Experiment” with Erin L. Kelly and Rachelle Hill. 2011. Social Problems 58(1): 69-98.

“Changing Workplaces to Reduce Work-Family Conflict: Schedule Control in a White-Collar Organization” with Erin Kelly and Eric Tranby. 2011.  American Sociological Review 76(2):1-26.

From ‘Work-Family’ to ‘Life Course Fit’:  Five Challenges to the Field.”  2011. Community, Work and Family 14(1): 1-16.Book Cover: Career Mystique

“Gendered Challenge, Gendered Response: Confronting the Ideal Worker Norm in a White-Collar Organization,” with Erin L. Kelly, Samantha K. Ammons, and Kelly Chermack. 2010. Gender and Society 24(3):281-303.

The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream with Patricia Roehling. 2005. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield.