Ricky W. Griffin is Distinguished Professor of Management and the Blocker Chair in Business in Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. After receiving his PhD from the University of Houston in 1978, Dr. Griffin joined the faculty at the University of Missouri for three years before moving to Texas A&M in 1981. His research on task design and dysfunctional work behavior has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Management, and other outlets. He also served as Editor of the Journal of Management. Ricky has been Program Chair and Division Chair of the Organizational Behavior Division and Program… Chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy, Program Chair and President of the Southwest Academy of Management, and a member of the Board of the Southern Management Association. He is a fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association. Dr. Griffin has taught organizational behavior, human resource management, international management, and research methods at all levels and has won several teaching awards. He is a frequent speaker to executive audiences and is the author of several widely used textbooks. Dr. Griffin was Director of the Center for Human Resource Management at Texas A&M and just returned to the faculty at Mays after 11 years of full-time appointments as Management Department Head, Executive Associate Dean, and Interim Dean. His current research interests include workplace culture, managerial skills development, and decision making during times of crisis.
Jean Phillips is a professor in the Human Resource Management department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in organizational behavior and human resource management. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses in topics including organizational behavior, strategic human resource management, staffing, and teams and leadership in the United States and in Singapore at the undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D., and Executive Master's levels. Jean was among the top 5 percent of published authors in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s and received the 2004 Cummings… Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Her research interests focus on recruitment and staffing, leadership and team effectiveness, and issues related to learning organizations. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Small Group Research, Journal of Business and Psychology, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and the Journal of Business and Psychology. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Her consulting work includes the creation and evaluation of strategic recruitment and staffing programs, evaluating recruiting source effectiveness, coaching on enhancing leadership performance and work team effectiveness, and the development and evaluation of employee survey programs.
Stan Gully is a professor in the Human Resource Management department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has taught courses at the undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D., and Executive Master's level covering content such as organizational learning and innovation, recruiting and staffing, human resource management, performance management, training and development, data analysis, and leadership. He has taught using traditional and hybrid technologies in the United States, Singapore, and Indonesia. Stan has authored or presented more than 80 papers, research articles,… and book chapters on a variety of topics. His work has appeared in Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, and Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams, among other outlets. Stan has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He has won several awards for his research, teaching, and service, including Rutgers' 2010 Jim Chelius Best Teacher Award. He is a former co-editor of the Academy of Management Research Methods Division Newsletter. Stan once worked in management at UPS (brown uniform and all!). His consulting work includes evaluating predictors of pharmaceutical salesperson effectiveness, assessing the effectiveness of an employer branding initiative, and implementing a multisource feedback system. He has also designed various training programs on topics including leadership and the evaluation of recruiting source effectiveness. His research interests include employee wellness, strategic recruiting, leadership and team effectiveness, training, and organizational learning.