Cary Cooper CBE

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 is a Canadian psychologist

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 and Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School

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.

Prior to working at Lancaster University, Cooper was Head of the Manchester School of Management (UMIST

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) from the early 80s, In 1995 he became Pro-Vice Chancellor and then Deputy Vice Chancellor of UMIST until 2002. From 1979 to 1980 he was Chairman of the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management

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 and was elected as Founding President of the British Academy of Management. In June 2005 he was appointed head of the Sunningdale Institute

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, which, managed by the UK National School of Government

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, brings international academics and industry figures together to advise on issues facing UK public sector organisations.
Cary Cooper is also a Director of well-being specialists and business psychologists, Robertson Cooper Limited, a company which he set up in 1999 with Professor Ivan Robertson.

Cary Cooper is also a fan of Manchester City

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.

Cooper is of Romania

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n descent.

Professional recognition

Cooper has studied for a B.Sc., M.B.A., and a Ph.D.

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. Further, he has received the following awards from professional and academic organizations:

• 1994 Fellow of the British Academy of Management
• 1994 Elected a Fellow of the (British) Institute of Management
• 1997 Elected by the (American) Academy of Management as one of the first UK Fellows
• 1997 Became a Companion of the Institute of Management (now the Chartered Management Institute
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  )
• 1998 Awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the (American) Academy of Management for services to the field of management
• 1998 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Heriot-Watt University
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   (Edinburgh) for contributions to organizational psychology
• 1999 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration by Wolverhampton University
• 2002 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Aston University
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• 2003 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Middlesex University
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• 2005 Cooper was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians
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Queen’s Birthday Honours

Professor Cooper was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of June 2001, with a CBE.

Media work

He is often interviewed by the UK press (including BBC

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 and ITV

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) for both news and current affairs.

Selected bibliography

• Employee Morale: Driving Performance in Challenging Times (with David Bowles), Palgrave-Macmillan October 2009
• Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide (ed. by Jonathan Passmore), Kogan Page 2007
• Leadership and Management in the 21st Century: Business Challenges of the Future, Oxford University Press 2004
• The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management (with C Argyris and W H Starbuck), Blackwell 2004
• Stress: A Brief History (with P Dewe), Blackwell 2004
• International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Vol. 13 (with I T Robertson), John Wiley and Sons 2004
• "Stress and the changing nature of work", in Creating the Productive Workplace (ed. by C L Cooper and D Clements-Croome), Spon Press 2004
• "Stress reduction: the role of individually targeted interventions", in Handbook of Work Stress, Sage 2004
• Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace (with I T Robertson, J Silvester, B Burnes, F Patterson and J Arnold, Financial Times Prentice Hall 2004
• Managing the Safety Risk of Workplace Stress (with S Clarke), Routledge 2003
• "Executives: engines for positive stress", in Emotional and Physiological Processes and Positive Intervention Strategies, JAI 2003