The IWSP is funded by a consortium of sponsor organizations from both the private and public sectors. Current sponsors are from the United States, Canada, and Japan. Sponsorship is on an annual basis, in support of the current IWSP Research Theme. The current theme is: The Value of a Campus: Costs and Benefits of Collocation.

Sponsor Involvement

• IWSP site visits that enable our research partners and the Cornell research team to immediately discuss and debate, in the context of an on-site visit and in an informal but structured way, what is observed and heard from site visits; and the implications of the team's findings for the research partners' own organization. A key element of these discussions will be the opportunity for the IWSP leaders to interact with sponsor representatives in a lively forum with senior members of the organizations visited, thus creating the opportunity to better understand the mindset and thought processes of management in shaping the organizations of the new millennium.
• 1-2 day workshops at the IWSP team space at Cornell which provide the opportunity for sponsors to interact with each other and the IWSP team in a highly focused way at different points throughout the research process. The objective is to generate input and feedback about the research as it unfolds, both to help shape how data is interpreted and the kinds of issues that might be explored further. These workshops also provide the opportunity to discuss at length how emerging findings might be applied to the sponsor's own firm to help it inform its own decision processes.
• Insight Workshops held at least once a year where Sponsors and IWSP research team can share the latest information collected from study sites, examine the implications for member's own organizations, and visit as a group leading-edge corporations to learn first-hand about their workplace strategies and the thought processes underlying them.

Sponsor Benefits

Sponsor benefits include the opportunity to:

• Develop insights and explore the implications for corporate practice that go considerably beyond what might be gleaned from simply reading a published research report or hearing a conference presentation. In effect, the IWSP program offers a sponsor-shaped research activity integrated with a highly personalized corporate learning activity and best practice benchmarking.
• Participate in site visits with leading-edge firms, led by world-class workplace experts.
• Review early pre-publication research findings that can affect the kind of workplace policies, plans, designs, and practices that one's organization is considering.
• Access leaders responsible for implementing new workplace strategies within other large companies.
• Significantly leverage research and training dollars. For a small individual contribution (see Membership Terms, below), which by itself would not be sufficient to support either a significant training or research program, each member organization can participate in a research and action learning program widely recognized as being on the cutting-edge of thinking about new workplace concepts.

Cornell Research Team

As leaders of the Workscape 21 project, Professors Franklin Becker and William Sims are among the worlds most experienced academic researchers in this field. They have written, lectured, and consulted widely on new workplace practices in the United States and abroad.

Time Frame

Organizations can become an IWSP sponsor at any time. Membership runs one year from date when the organization joins the consortium.

The first wave of data collection will occur February--June 2002. The initial report will be completed by September 2002. Based on the outcome of the first data collection phase, the IWSP and its sponsors will chart the research course for the following 8-12 months.

Membership Terms

The fee for joining the research program for the 2002-2003 period is $15,000 (USA) per year. Sponsoring organizations will be responsible for all expenses of their members traveling to and participating in research site and consortium meetings.

All data is owned and copyrighted by the International Workplace Studies Program. The IWSP and its Directors can use it without restriction in any media or venue, including in academic and professional presentations, reports, articles, books, multimedia, CD-ROM, Web sites, and videos. Members of the research consortium can use the same information, honoring standard copyright law and academic conventions for citing published work.

Sole Source Research

In addition to the IWSP Consortium, the IWSP also conducts sole-source research, on topics of mutual interest to the sponsor and the IWSP. Please contact Franklin Becker at fdb2@cornell.edu to discuss.

 

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