Gregorio Billikopf
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Gregorio Billikopf is a mediator
, author
, and since 1981, a farm advisor specializing in labor management for the University of California, Davis
. In May, 2005, Billikopf accepted a visiting faculty appointment as a professor of agricultural labor management at the University of Chile in Santiago. Billikopf is a frequent national and international speaker (including United States, as well as in Russia, México, Canada, Uganda, Colombia, and his native Chile) in his field.
His agricultural extension research and teaching efforts have focused on such topics as employee selection, compensation, performance appraisal, discipline and termination, supervision, interpersonal relations, conflict resolution, and interpersonal negotiation skills. Billikopf is the recipient of the 1989 National Association for County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) Achievement Award and the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. He has received a number of other awards from NACAA, including two National Winner communication awards: Webpage in 1999 (Agricultural Labor Management); and Publication in 2006 (for his book Labor Management in Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity, 2nd Edition, 2003).
Billikopf's maternal family have been grape growers in Chile for generations. It is at the labor intensive family vineyard, where Gregorio spent much of his youth, that he first developed an interest in labor issues, horses and agriculture. While doing a search in the internet, Billikopf found that this interest in conflict management also runs in the family. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Billikopf, is listed as a "notable arbitrator" whose writings are included in the Cornell University School of Industrial Relations' Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archive and elsewhere. On his Chilean side, he is related to historian Francisco Antonio Encina, author of Historia de Chile.
Billikopf has authored numerous articles published in academic journals, seveal books including Labor Management in Agriculture (1994, 2003) and Party Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences (2nd Edition, 2009), and portrays practical examples of this emerging specialty within the field of alternative dispute resolution
. He presented his two mediation models, Party-Directed Mediation (PDM) and Negotiated Performance Appraisal (NPA), for dealing with peer to peer conflict and supervisor-subordinate conflict, respectively, at the International Association for Conflict Management annual meetings in 2005 (Seville, Spain) and 2009 (Kyoto, Japan).
Raised in Chile
's Central Valley, Billikopf obtained his bachelor of science in plant science from UC Davis, and his master of arts in labor management from California State University, Stanislaus
. Billikopf and his wife reside in Modesto, California
, and are the parents of four children. Special interests include activities as a dressage
(equestrian sports) instructor, amateur radio operator, a soccer referee and a student of the Holy Scriptures, especially Isaiah and the latter prophets (NEVI'M).
Mediation
Mediation, as used in law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution , a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties. A third party, the mediator, assists the parties to negotiate their own settlement...
, author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, and since 1981, a farm advisor specializing in labor management for the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
. In May, 2005, Billikopf accepted a visiting faculty appointment as a professor of agricultural labor management at the University of Chile in Santiago. Billikopf is a frequent national and international speaker (including United States, as well as in Russia, México, Canada, Uganda, Colombia, and his native Chile) in his field.
His agricultural extension research and teaching efforts have focused on such topics as employee selection, compensation, performance appraisal, discipline and termination, supervision, interpersonal relations, conflict resolution, and interpersonal negotiation skills. Billikopf is the recipient of the 1989 National Association for County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) Achievement Award and the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. He has received a number of other awards from NACAA, including two National Winner communication awards: Webpage in 1999 (Agricultural Labor Management); and Publication in 2006 (for his book Labor Management in Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity, 2nd Edition, 2003).
Billikopf's maternal family have been grape growers in Chile for generations. It is at the labor intensive family vineyard, where Gregorio spent much of his youth, that he first developed an interest in labor issues, horses and agriculture. While doing a search in the internet, Billikopf found that this interest in conflict management also runs in the family. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Billikopf, is listed as a "notable arbitrator" whose writings are included in the Cornell University School of Industrial Relations' Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archive and elsewhere. On his Chilean side, he is related to historian Francisco Antonio Encina, author of Historia de Chile.
Billikopf has authored numerous articles published in academic journals, seveal books including Labor Management in Agriculture (1994, 2003) and Party Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences (2nd Edition, 2009), and portrays practical examples of this emerging specialty within the field of alternative dispute resolution
Alternative dispute resolution
Alternative Dispute Resolution includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. ADR basically is an alternative to a formal court hearing or litigation...
. He presented his two mediation models, Party-Directed Mediation (PDM) and Negotiated Performance Appraisal (NPA), for dealing with peer to peer conflict and supervisor-subordinate conflict, respectively, at the International Association for Conflict Management annual meetings in 2005 (Seville, Spain) and 2009 (Kyoto, Japan).
Raised in Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
's Central Valley, Billikopf obtained his bachelor of science in plant science from UC Davis, and his master of arts in labor management from California State University, Stanislaus
California State University, Stanislaus
California State University, Stanislaus, also known as Cal State Stanislaus or simply Stan State is a campus in the California State University system which was established in 1957 in Turlock, California. It is also the only campus in the CSU system to offer a bachelor's degree in cognitive studies...
. Billikopf and his wife reside in Modesto, California
Modesto, California
Modesto is a city in, and is the county seat of, Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, Modesto ranks as the 18th largest city in the state of California....
, and are the parents of four children. Special interests include activities as a dressage
Dressage
Dressage is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as "the highest expression of horse training." Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games...
(equestrian sports) instructor, amateur radio operator, a soccer referee and a student of the Holy Scriptures, especially Isaiah and the latter prophets (NEVI'M).
External links
- Listening Skills - Gregorio Billikopf
- UCANR.org - 'UC labor management advisor's strategy improves conflict resolution' (October 4, 2002)
- UCOP.edu - '"Pre-caucusing" improves labor mediation', Janet Byron (January, 2004)
- UC Berkeley.edu - Gregorio "Uncle Moo" Billikopf