Leslie Hammer

Leslie Hammer is a professor of industrial organizational psychology in the department of Psychology at Portland State University. Dr. Hammer is the director of the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety and Health, funded by grants from National Institute for Child and Health and Human Development and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. This center is one of six centers that makes up the National Work, Family and Health Network (WFHN). Dr. Hammer is also the director of the Occupational Health Psychology Graduate Training Program at Portland State University that is funded through a training program grant from the National Institute Occupation, mental safety and health (NIOSH). She is the associated Director of the NIOSH-funded Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, OHWC, one of four Centers of excellence in the Total Worker Health. Most recently, Dr. Hammer was awarded a grant from the Department of Defense to study ways to increase supervision support and enhance employment for veterans reintegrating into the workforce. 

Her research focuses on ways in which organizations can help reduce work and family stress and improve positive spillover among employees by facilitating both formal and informal workplace supports such as Family Supportive Supervision Behavior (FSSB) training. She has worked with such employees. Population as grocery workers, health care workers, specifically nursing aid workers, construction workers, information technology workers, and is currently working on employment support and retention for our nation’s military veterans. She is a past founding president of the Psychology for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP) and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Doctor Hammer is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (pass Associate Editor), and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. She has published numerous articles on work and family in such publications as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of occupational health psychology, Journal of vocational behavior, Journal of family issues, Human Resources planning, and the Journal of marriage and the Family and Co-wrote a book with Dr. Margaret Neal entitled Working Couples Caring for Children and Aging Couples: Effects of work and well-being.