Michael Burke
- Professor
- Charles Atwood Professorship
- Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- Lawrence Martin Chair of Business
| Office Address | 636 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 504.862.3328 |
| mburke1@tulane.edu | |
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Biography
Professor Michael Burke is the Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.
Professor Burke’s research focuses on learning and the efficacy of workplace safety interventions and the role of individual and situational factors in predicting individual, group, and organizational outcomes. In addition, he contributes to the literature on statistical procedures for meta-analysis and the estimation of inter-rater agreement.
He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters on these and other topics in applied psychology, occupational safety, management, and statistics. Recently, he authored the book A Workplace Safety Approach to Good Health: Interdisciplinary Insights for Sustainable Development to be jointly published by Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature.
During his early career at Tulane, he participated in the HAMMER (Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response) project, a joint effort between Tulane University and the U.S. Department of Energy. In doing so, he led a multi-disciplinary team in evaluating worker safety training for the tens of thousands of workers involved in nuclear waste cleanup after the Cold War. Professor Burke appreciates that Tulane continues to support his multidisciplinary research programs. He is the recipient of the 2023 Tulane University Convergence Award for research "that surpasses traditional academic disciplines and furthers the research mission of the university."
Courses
Research
- Burke, M.J., Sarpy, S.A., & Valenzuela, L. (in press). Workplace safety and health. In J. Olsen-Buchanan, J. Scott, & L. Foster (Eds.), Sustainable Development through the World of Work: Translating Insights from Organizational Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Burke, M.J., Smith-Crowe, K., Burke, M.I., Cohen, A., Doveh, E., & Sun, S. (2022). The relative importance and interaction of contextual and methodological predictors of mean rWG for work climate. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37, 923-951.
- Sarpy, S.A., & Burke, M.J. (2021). An evaluation of safety training for a diverse disaster response workforce: The case of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education (EJIHPE), 11, 1635–1652.
- Valenzuela, L.S., & Burke, M.J. (2020). Toward a greater understanding of Colombian professional truck drivers’ safety performance. Transportation Research Part F, 73, 188-204.
- Burke, M.J., Cohen, A., Doveh, E., & Smith-Crowe, K. (2018). Central tendency and matched-difference approaches for assessing interrater agreement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103, 1198–1229.
- Hofmann, D.A., Burke, M.J., & Zohar, D. (2017). 100 years of occupational safety research: From basic protections and work analysis to a multilevel view of workplace safety and risk. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 375-388.
