Area of Expertise: Organizational Studies
Barbuto, John E.
Professor of Management
Director, Center for Leadership
Areas of Knowledge
- Servant Leadership
- Work Motivation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Transformational Leadership
- Power and Influence
- Influence Processes
- Leadership Development
- Antecedents of Leadership
- Personality
- Intergenerational Differences
- Leader Member Exchange
- Organizational Behavior
- Cross Cultural Leadership
- Cultural Intelligence
- Dramaturgical Teaching
Beenen, Gerard
Professor of Management
Associate Dean, Chair of the Department of Management
Areas of Knowledge
- Workplace motivation, learning and performance
- Workplace interpersonal skills
- Leading and managing organizational change
- Learning and performance in short-term work assignments
- Executive Leadership
- Human capital strategy
- Organizational change
- Creativity and innovation
- Team dynamics and effectiveness
- Organizational design
- Negotiation dynamics and processes
Blackman, Melinda
Professor of Psychology
Chair of the Department of Psychology
Areas of Knowledge
- Industrial/organizational psychology
- employee work-related behavior (i.e., theft)
- employment interviews (selecting candidates)
- accuracy of personality judgments
- self-esteem issues
Chandler, Jennifer D.
Associate Professor of Management
Chair of the Department of Management
Areas of Knowledge
- Strategic Management
- Entertainment and multi-sided markets
- High Technology
Cherin, David A.
Professor of Social Work
Chair of the Department of Social Work
Areas of Knowledge
- Death and dying and use of hospice and palliative care
- Aging issues in the community
- California Foster Care system
- Leadership and supervision in the human services/non-profit sector
- HIV-AIDs and end of life care
Emry, Robert A.
Professor of Human Communications, Emeritus
Areas of Knowledge
- Planning and organizational change
- Intercultural, interpersonal and public communication
- Community building
- Conflict management
- Teaming
- Leadership
Gottfredson, Ryan K.
Assistant Professor of Management
Assistant Director, Center for Leadership
Areas of Knowledge
- Leadership
- Employee Perceptions
- Trust
- Employee Fairness
- Performance Management
- Employee Engagement
Hodge, Meriem
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Knowledge
- Feedback
- Performance Evaluation
Hogan, Mikel
Professor of Human Services
Areas of Knowledge
- Health, medicine and culture
- Organization culture change
- Cultural competence (training and assesment)
- Education and culture
- Family and culture
Kamrath, Jessica K.
Assistant Professor of Human Communication Studies
Areas of Knowledge
- Organizational Communication - Organizational resilience & Well-Being
- Sport Communication
- Leadership Communication
- Communication Pedagogy
Lane, Carrie M.
Professor of American Studies
Areas of Knowledge
- work
- unemployment
- job loss
- insecure/precarious work
- gig work
- gender
- feminism
- self-employment
- professional organizing
- clutter
- disorganization
- simple living
- minimalism
- masculinity
- office work
- white-collar work
- overwhelm/burnout
- disability
- ableism
- community
- study abroad
- Denmark
- Bali
- ethnography
- hoarding
- internships
- service-learning
Matz, S. Irene
Associate Professor of Human Communication Studies
Areas of Knowledge
- Organizational and business communication
- 21st century leadership
- Women in leadership
Ruud, Gary
Associate Professor of Human Communications Studies
Areas of Knowledge
- Communication
- Speech Communication
- Organizational Studies
- Communication in organizational contexts
- Organization/communication training
- Organization/communication ethics
Sadri, Goli
Professor of Management
Areas of Knowledge
- Cross-cultural issues
- Organization culture
Salvador, Rommel
Associate Professor of Management
Areas of Knowledge
- Human Resource Management
- Business Ethics
Srikant, Chethan D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Areas of Knowledge
- Strategic management
- Business and society interactions
- Sustainable business practices
- Social Issues in management
- Energy sector
- Corporate responses to community opposition
- Regulations, institutions and non-market strategies
- Corporate social responsibility
- Rhetorical analysis
- Longitudinal statistical methods
- Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA
Teckchandani, Atul
Associate Professor of Management
Areas of Knowledge
- Entrepreneurship
- Experiential learning
- Organizational behavior
- Leadership
- Lean startup
- Design thinking
