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Craig L. Pearce
Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA  91711
office:909.607.9248 fax: 909.621.8543
email:craig.pearce@cgu.edu web: http://www.cgu.edu/faculty/pearcec/

A C A D E M I C  P O S I T I O N S

Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management

Claremont Graduate University
Assistant Professor of Management: July 2000 to present

Instituto de Empresa

Madrid, Spain
Visiting Professor of Management: May 2001 to June 2001

Belk College of Business Administration

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Assistant Professor of Management: August 1996 to June 2000

E D U C A T I O N

University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD

PhD May 1997

Major: Organizational Behavior

Committee: Henry Sims; Ramon Aldag; Richard Guzzo; Susan Komives; Thomas Tuttle

Dissertation: “The Determinants of Change Management Team Effectiveness: A Longitudinal Investigation”

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

MBA May 1988

Major: Management

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

BS (Honors and Distinction) May 1987

Major: Management

Honors Thesis: “Leading Others to Lead Themselves: The Epitome of Management”

   A W A R D S

Received the 2004 Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management—an award given to those who have “distinguished themselves by their research and teaching accomplishments and their professional service.”

Received Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews for manuscript entitled “Shared Cognition in Top Management Teams: Implications for New Venture Performance” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2001, 22:145-160.

Received 2000 Barclays American Research Award for work on shared leadership.

Nominee 2000 Belk College of Business Administration Teacher of the Year Award.

Nominee 2000 Belk College of Business Administration Researcher of the Year Award.

Received Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews for manuscript entitled “From workplace attitudes and values to a global pattern of nations: An application of LCM” Journal of Management, 1999, 25(5): 759-778.

Received award from the Center for Creative Leadership in the Walter F. Ulmer Applied Research Award competition in 1997 for work on shared leadership.

Received Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews for manuscript entitled “Metaphors for change: The ALPs model of change management” Organizational Dynamics, 1996, Winter: 23-35.

Received Best Paper award for dissertation research at the University of Maryland Graduate Research Interaction Day Conference, 1995.

Member of Sigma Iota Epsilon Honorary Fraternity, 1986-present.

R E S E A R C H

Refereed Publications:

Pearce, Craig L., Jay A. Conger & Edwin A. Locke (forthcoming).  The role of shared leadership in leadership theory and practice. Leadership Quarterly.

Pearce, Craig L. & Pamela A. Herbik (forthcoming).  Citizenship Behavior at the Team Level of Analysis: The Role of Team Leader Behavior, Team Dynamics, the Team’s Environment, and Team Demography. Journal of Social Psychology.

Ensley, Michael D., Craig L. Pearce & Keith M. Hmieleski (forthcoming).  The moderating effect of Environmental Dynamism on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and new venture performance.  Journal of Business Venturing

Pearce, Craig L.  (2004).  The future of leadership: Combining vertical and shared leadership to transform knowledge work.  Academy of Management Executive, 18(1): 47-57.

Pearce, Craig L. & Ensley, M. D. (2004).  A Reciprocal and Longitudinal Investigation of the Innovation Process: The Central Role of Shared Vision in Product and Process Innovation Teams (PPITs). Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Ensley, Michael D., Allison Pearson & Craig L. Pearce (2003). Top Management Team Process, Shared Leadership and New Venture Performance: A Theoretical Model and Research Agenda. Human Resource Management Review, 13(6): 1-18.

Pearce, Craig L., Henry P. Sims, Jr., Jonathan F. Cox, Gail Ball, Eugene Schnell, Ken A. Smith, Linda Trevino (2003).  Transactors, Transformers and Beyond: A Multi-method Development of a Theoretical Typology of Leadership.  Journal of Management Development, 22(4): 273-307.

Pearce, Craig L. & Robert A. Giacalone (2003).  Teams Behaving Badly: Counterproductive Behavior at the Team Level of Analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33(1): 58-75.

Pearce, Craig L. (2002).   Mas allá del liderazgo heroico: como el buen vino, el liderazgo es algo para ser compartido.  Revista de Empresa, 1(2): 53-64.

Pearce, Craig L. & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (2002).  Vertical Versus Shared Leadership as Predictors of the Effectiveness of Change Management Teams: An Examination of Aversive, Directive, Transactional, Transformational, and Empowering Leader Behaviors. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6(2), 172–197.

Research synopsis appeared in: Leadership Review, Fall, 2003.

Pearce, Craig L., Cynthia A. Gallagher & Michael D. Ensley (2002).  Confidence at the Group Level of Analysis: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Relationship Between Potency and Team Effectiveness. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 75: 115-119.

Ensley, Michael D. & Craig L. Pearce (2001).  Shared Cognition as a Process and an Outcome in Top Management Teams: Implications for New Venture Performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22: 145-160.  Received Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews.

Perry, Monica L., Craig L. Pearce & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (1999). Empowered Selling Teams: How Shared Leadership can Contribute to Selling Team Outcomes. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 19(3): 35-52.

Pearce, Craig L., & Charles P. Osmond. (1999).  From Workplace Attitudes and Values to a Global Pattern of Nations: An Application of Latent Class Modeling.  Journal of Management, 25(5): 759-778.  Received Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews.

Knight, Don, Craig L. Pearce, Ken G. Smith, Henry P. Sims, Jr., Judy Olian, Ken A. Smith & Patrick Flood. (1999). Top Management Team Diversity, Group Dynamics and Strategic Consensus: An Empirical Investigation.  Strategic Management Journal, 20(5): 445-466.

O’Bannon, Douglas P. & Craig L. Pearce. (1999).  A Quasi-Experiment of Gainsharing in Service Organizations: Implications for Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Pay Satisfaction. Journal of Managerial Issues. 11(3): 363-378.

Giacalone, Robert A, Stephen B. Knouse, & Craig L. Pearce. (1998). The Education of Leaders: Impression Management as a Functional Competence.  Journal of Management Systems, 10(2): 67-80.

Pearce, Craig L., & Charles P. Osmond. (1996).  Metaphors for Change: The ALPs Model of Change Management. Organizational Dynamics, 24(3): 23-35. Received Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews.

Reprinted in: Martin J. Gannon (Ed.) (2001).  Cultural Metaphors: Readings, Research Translations, and Commentary, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Book Chapters:

Pearce, Craig L. (forthcoming). Shared leadership: A new model of leadership for the age of teamwork.  J. M. Burns, G. E. Goethals & G. Sorenson (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Leadership.  Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire.

Pearce, Craig L., Youngjin Yoo & Maryam Alavi (2004). Leadership, social work and virtual teams: The relative influence of vertical vs. shared leadership in the nonprofit sector.  In R. E. Riggio & S. Smith-Orr (Eds.) Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations. (pp. 180-203).  San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Pearce, Craig L. & Jay A. Conger (2003).  All those years ago: The historical underpinnings of shared leadership.  In C. L. Pearce & J. A. Conger (Eds.) Shared leadership: Reframing the hows and whys of leadership. (pp. 1-18).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jay A. Conger & Craig L. Pearce (2003).  A Landscape of Opportunities: Future Research on Shared Leadership.  In C. L. Pearce & J. A. Conger (Eds.) Shared leadership: Reframing the hows and whys of leadership. (pp. 285-303).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jonathan F. Cox, Craig L. Pearce & Monica L. Perry. (2003).  Toward a Model of Shared Leadership and Distributed Influence in the Innovation Process: How Shared Leadership can Enhance New Product Development Team Dynamics and Effectiveness.  In C. L. Pearce & J. A. Conger (Eds.) Shared leadership: Reframing the hows and whys of leadership. (pp. 48-76).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jonathan F. Cox, Craig L. Pearce & Henry P. Sims, Jr.  (2003).  Toward a Broader Agenda for Leadership Development: Extending the traditional transactional-transformational duality by developing directive, empowering and shared leadership skills.  In S. E. Murphy & R. E. Riggio (Eds.) The Future of Leadership Development. (pp. 161-180).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.

Pearce, Craig L., Perry, Monica L. & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (2001). Shared Leadership: Relationship Management to Improve NPO Effectiveness.  In: The Nonprofit Handbook: Management.  T. D. Connors (Ed.), pp. 624-641.  New York: Wiley.

Pearce, Craig L., & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (2000). Shared Leadership: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Leadership.  Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams, 7: 115-139.

Books:

Pearce, Craig L., & Jay A. Conger (Eds.) (2003).  Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

            Reviewed in: Illumine: Research in Leadership and Organizational Psychology, Fall 2003.

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Yun, S., Pearce, C. L., Sims, H. P., Jr., & Cox, J. (2003). How team leadership influences individual follower affective responses and self-efficacy: A Multilevel Analysis.  Proceedings of the Northeast Business and Economics Association, 133-138. Parsippany, NJ.

Cox, Jonathan F. & Craig L. Pearce (2001). Beyond the Transactor-Transformer Duality: A Broader Agenda for Leadership Development.  Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management.

Pearce, Craig L. & Rich Their (1999).  Shared Leadership. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Work Teams.

Pearce, Craig L., & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (1999). Shared Leadership: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Leadership in Teams.  1999 Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium—Individual, Team, and Organizational Effectiveness.

Pearce, Craig L. & Robert Jessup (1998).  Empowerment With an Edge: Implementing Shared Leadership in the new American Workforce.  1998 Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Work Teams.

Pearce, Craig L. & Douglas P. O’Bannon. (1994).  Benefits of Gainsharing in Service Organizations: Implications for Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Pay Satisfaction.  1994 Proceedings of the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management.

Pearce, Craig L. (1993).  The Obliteration of Traditional Management: The Transition to Total Quality and Team Based Management. 1993 Proceedings of the Association of Management.

Other Publications:

Pearce, Craig L. & C. C. Manz (forthcoming).  Self and shared leadership.  Executive Excellence.

Pearce, Craig L. (2003).  Beyond Self-leadership: Its Time to Start Sharing, In C. C. Manz and C. P. Neck, Mastering Self-leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence (3rd Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Pearce, Craig L. (1996).  We’re not Just Talking Small Potatoes: Leadership in the Biotechnology Industry, In C. C. Manz and H. P. Sims, Company of Heroes: Unleashing the Power of Self-Leadership, (pp. 44-46), New York: Wiley.

Osmond, Charles P. & Craig L. Pearce. (1995).  Latent Class Modeling and a Global Pattern of Nations. (Tech. Rep. No. 63).  College Park: University of Maryland, Center for International Business Education and Research.

Pearce, Craig L. (1989-1990). Profiles in Superleadership: Rene McPherson, 153-159, In C. C. Manz, and H. P. Sims, SuperLeadership, Wiley, 1989; Berkley, 1990.

Manuscripts at Advanced Stage of Review:

Pearce, Craig L., Jonathan Cox, John Garger, Bruce Avolio & Paul Hanges.  Confirmatory Aggregation Protocol Analysis (CAPA): An Empirical Demonstration. Organizational Research Methods

Pearce, Craig L., Gregory Rode, Gary F. Kohut & Michael D. Ensley. Enhancing Team Development: The Role of Managerial Enablement. Journal of Managerial Issues

Pearce, Craig L., Monica L. Perry, Charles Bodkin & Jonathan Cox. A Demonstration of Latent Class Modeling (LCM): A Powerful Technique for Modeling Nominal, Ordinal, Continuous and Count Data  Organizational Research Methods

Ensley, Michael D., Alison Pearson, Alan Amason & Craig L. Pearce.  Top Management Team Heterogeneity and Environmental Dynamism.  Academy of Management Journal

Yun, Seokwha, Craig L. Pearce, & Henry P. Sims, Jr. How Team Leadership Influences Individual Follower Affective Responses and Self-efficacy: A Multi-level, Multi-sample Analysis.  Leadership Quarterly

Manuscripts Under Review:

Invited Presentations, Television Appearances and Popular Media Quotations:

Featured panel Co-chair with R. E. Riggio, entitled Cutting Edge Issues in Leadership Theory and Practice.  Includes presentations from Bruce Barkus, Michelle Bligh, Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims, Jr.  To be presented at the Decisions Sciences Institute conference, Boston, November, 2004.

The moderating effect of environmental dynamism on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and new venture performance.  With Michael D. Ensley and Keith M. Hmieleski.  Presented to the Lally-Darden Scholars’ Retreat, Rensselaerville, NY, November 2003.

Quoted in: “Tailored Training” by R. McGarvey, in American Way, Septemer, 15, 2002, pp. 64, 67-68.

Workshop Facilitator, Claremont University Consortium Directors’ Retreat.  Session entitled “Leadership Challenges of the 21st Century.”  16 October 2001.

Keynote Speaker, Mooresville North Carolina St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church Leadership Development Retreat.  Talk entitled “Leading in the New Millennium:  Lessons Learned from the Past and Ideas for the Future.”  24 May 2000.

Keynote Speaker, Charlotte Area Personnel Association Spring 2000 Banquet.  Talk entitled “Team Evaluation: Assessing, Diagnosing and Improving Teams” presented with Michael D. Ensley, on 10 April 2000.

Interviewed in a documentary on leadership and teamwork in politics entitled “Mr. and Madame Chairman: Stories of Mecklenburg Politics”.  Initial air date March 24, 1999, Charlotte, NC: WTVI.

Empirical Explorations of a Typology of Leadership.  With Henry P. Sims, Jr.  Presented to the Inaugural meeting of the Leaders/Scholars Association, Los Angeles, California, November, 1998.

Empowerment: Its Purviews and Pitfalls.  With Admiral Kathryn Montgomery.  Presented to the Annual International Conference on Work Teams, Dallas, Texas, 1996.

Conference  Presentations:

Hmieleski, Keith, Michael D. Ensley & Craig L. Pearce The Differential
Effectiveness of Directive and Empowering Entrepreneur Leadership Behavior.  To be presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, August, 2004.

Pearce, Craig L. & Manz, C. C.  The New Silver Bullets of Leadership: The Importance of Self and Shared Leadership in Knowledge Work.  To be presented to the Gallup Leadership Summit, Lincoln, NE, June, 2004.

Justin, Joseph E. & Pearce, C. L.  Authentic Leadership: A cure for Follower defiance and a Key to Follower Performance?  To be presented to the Gallup Leadership Summit, Lincoln, NE, June, 2004.

Lai, Charles, Pearce, C. L., Ryan, T. Olfman, L. & Riggio, R. E.  Classifying leadership behavior in face-to-face and on-line discussion groups. Presented to the Western Psychological Association, April, 2004.

Pearce, Craig L. & Ensley, M. D.  A Reciprocal and Longitudinal Investigation of Teams Charged with Innovation: The Central Role of Shared Vision.  Presented to the Western Academy of Management, Anchorage, April, 2004.

Ensley, Michael D., Craig L. Pearce & Keith M. Hmieleski.  The moderating effect of Environmental Dynamism on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and new venture performance.  Presented to the Lally-Darden Advanced Research on Entrepreneurship Retreat, November, 2003.

Soekhwa Yun, Pearce, Craig L., Sims, Henry, P., Jr. & Cox, Jonathan F. How Team Leadership Influences Individual Followers' Satisfaction, Team Commitment and Self-Efficacy: A Multilevel Analysis.  Presented to Northeast Business and Economics Association, 2003.

Craig L. Pearce, Cox, Jonathan F. & Sims, H. P., Jr. Extending Transactional-Transformational Leadership: Developing Directive, Empowering and Shared Leadership.  Presented to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Montreal, April, 2003.

Craig L. Pearce, Shared Leadership: A mechanism for unleashing the power of teams.  Presented to the Western Academy of Management, Palm Springs, April, 2003.

Craig L. Pearce, Symposium Chair, with presentations from Bruce J. Avolio, C. Shawn Burke, Jay A. Conger, Michael D. Ensley, Jeffrey Houghton, Craig L. Pearce, & Henry P. Sims, Jr.  Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership.  Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Denver, CO, August, 2002.

Craig L. Pearce, Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Shared Leadership. In C. L. Pearce (symposium chair) Shared Leadership: Reframing the How’s and Why’s of Leadership.  Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Denver, CO, August, 2002.

Cox, Jonathan F. & Craig L. Pearce.  Beyond the Transactor-Transformer Duality: A Broader Agenda for Leadership Development.  Presented to the Second International Conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, Ciudad Mexico, December, 2001

Pearce, Craig L., Gregory Rode & Gary Kohut. Enhancing Team Development: The Role of Managerial Enablement. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Washington, D.C., August, 2001.

Pearce Craig L., Michael D. Ensley & David Balkin.  Compensation Strategy in High Growth Entrepreneurial Firms: The Impact of External and Internal Pay Equity on Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Performance Outcomes.  Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Washington, D.C., August, 2001.

Pearce, Craig L. & Michael D. Ensley (2000).  Shared Cognition, Team Dynamics and Team Effectiveness: A Reciprocal and Longitudinal Investigation.  Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Toronto, Canada, August, 2000.

Ensley, Michael D. & Craig L. Pearce (2000).  Shared Cognition as a Process and an Outcome in Top Management Teams: Implications for New Venture Performance. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Toronto, Canada, August, 2000.

Yun, Seokhwa, Craig L. Pearce & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (2000). The Effect of Leadership, Team OCB, and Collective Efficacy on Team Performance. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Toronto, Canada, August, 2000.

Ensley, Michael D. & Craig L. Pearce (2000).  Assessing the Influence of Leadership Behaviors on New Venture TMT Processes and New Venture Performance.  Presented to the 20th Annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Babson Park, Massachusetts, June, 2000.

Pearce, Craig L. & Robert A. Giacalone (2000).  Counterproductive Behavior at the Team Level of Analysis: The Impact of Team Leadership, Team Commitment, Organizational Support, and Team Size.  Presented to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, April, 2000.

Pearce, Craig L., & Charles P. Osmond. (1999). The Competitive Advantage of Culture: Where to do Business and Why. Presented to the Conference of the IberoAmerican Academy of Management, Madrid, December, 1999.

Pearce, Craig L. (1999). The Relative Influence of Vertical vs. Shared Leadership on the Longitudinal Effectiveness of Change Management Teams. Presented to the to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1999.

Pearce, Craig L. & Cynthia A. Gallagher (1999).  Potency-Effectiveness Spirals: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Development and Impact of Potency in Teams. Presented to the to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1999.

Sims, Henry P., Jr., Charles C. Manz & Craig L. Pearce (1999). Using Short Cycle Video Clips to Teach Organizational Behavior: A Demonstration of Leadership Archetypes. Presented to the 1999 Academy of Business & Administrative Sciences (ABAS) International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July, 1999.

Bell, Ella & Craig L. Pearce (1999).  Breaking Down the Borders: Lessons Learned, But Not Known, From our Families.  Presented to the 26th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, June, 1999.

Pearce, Craig L. & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (1999). Shared Leadership: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Leadership in Teams. Presented to the 7th Annual Symposium--Individual, Team, and Organizational Effectiveness.  Denton, Texas, May, 1999.

Pearce, Craig L. & Pamela A. Herbik. (1999).  Citizenship Behavior at the Team Level of Analysis: The Role of Team Leader Behavior, Team Dynamics, the Team’s Environment, and Team Demography. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1999.

Monica L. Perry & Craig L. Pearce (1999). Who’ll Lead the Selling Team: Vertical vs. Shared Leadership in Team Selling. Presented to the annual Winter Educator’s Conference, American Marketing Association, St. Petersburg, Florida, February, 1999.

Pearce, Craig L. & Robert Jessup (1998).  Empowerment with an Edge: Implementing Shared Leadership in the new American Workforce. Presented to the Annual International Conference on Work Teams, Dallas, Texas, September, 1998.

Pearce, Craig L., Jonathan F. Cox & Paul Hanges (1996). Confirmatory Aggregation Protocol Analysis (CAPA): An Empirical Demonstration. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Cincinnati, Ohio, August, 1996.

Pearce, Craig L. (1995). The Determinants of Change Management Team Effectiveness: A Longitudinal Investigation.  Presented to the Annual University of Maryland Graduate Research Interaction Day Conference, College Park, Maryland, March, 1995.

Pearce, Craig L. (1995). Aggregation Bias in the Social Sciences: The Application of Covariance Within and Between Analysis (CWABA). Presented to the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, Florida, April, 1995.

Knight, Don, Craig L. Pearce, Ken A. Smith & Patrick Flood (1995). Top Management Team Diversity, Group Dynamics and Strategic Consensus: An Empirical Investigation. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, British Columbia, August, 1995.

Pearce, Craig L., & Henry P. Sims, Jr. (1994). A Comparison of EFA and CFA in the Explication of Leadership Archetypes. Presented to the Meeting of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, West Layfayette, Indiana, May, 1994.

Pearce, Craig L. & Douglas P. O’Bannon (1994). Benefits of Gainsharing in Service Organizations: Implications for Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Pay Satisfaction. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management, Arlington, Virginia, 1994.

Pearce, Craig L. (1993). An Empirical Evaluation of the Archetypal Dimensions of Leadership.  Presented to the Annual Leadership Week Conference, College Park, Maryland, 1993.

Pearce, Craig L. (1993). The Obliteration of Traditional Management: The Transition to Total Quality and Team Based Management. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Association of Management, Atlanta, 1993.

Working Papers:

Craig L. Pearce.  Leadership at the Top: How Shared Leadership Can Contribute to Organizational Success.

Craig L. Pearce, Kevin Clark & Michael D. Ensley.  Shared Leadership in the International Environment: The Effect of Culture on the Display and Efficacy of Shared Leadership.

Ensley, Michael D., Craig L. Pearce & David Balkin.  Compensation Strategy in High Growth Entrepreneurial Firms: The Impact of External and Internal Pay Equity on Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Performance Outcomes.

Confidence at the Group Level of Analysis: Exploring the Impact of Three Alternative Empirical Approaches.  With Admiral Kathryn Montgomery.

Research Interests:

Leadership, Teamwork and Entrepreneurship.

G R A N T S

Received Title VI-B grant from the United States Department of Education for international business education and research ($173,000).

Received 1998 Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, UNC Charlotte ($3,500).

Received grant for dissertation research - funded by Mack Trucks, Inc. ($10,000).

P R O F E S S I O N A L    E X P E R I E N C E

Graduate Assistant:

Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity, University of Maryland, August 1992 - June 1994.

Developed “Quality Leadership Action Survey (QLAS)” to measure dimensions of organizational climate and culture with the framework of Total Quality Management (TQM) to aid in the implementation of TQM efforts.

Served as Total Quality Coordinator for internal improvement efforts at the center.

Developed the “Associate and Organizational Development System” - an integrated approach for the development of organizational learning.

Designed “The Home Building-Team Building Exercise” - an educational tool for team building.

Management Consultant:

Synergetics, Great Britain, March 1989 - June 1992.

Served as Team Leader for $12 Million engineering project.

Implemented project management systems.

Designed planning and budgeting system for allocation of $0.5 Billion/year.

Implemented Business Unit/Profit Center concepts.

Implemented engineering change control systems.

Consulting Clients Have Included:

AAI, ACNielsen, American Express, British Bakeries, GEICO Insurance, Land Rover, Mack Trucks, Manor Bakeries, Panda Restaurant Group, Pickering Foods, Rayovac, The Rouse Company, Rover Cars, Small Potatoes (I have served on Board of this Bio-tech company from 1992-present) Serono and SmartScan Imaging.

S E R V I C E  &  P R O F E S S I O N A L   M E M B E R S H I P S

University Service:

Member, Academic Standards Committee, Claremont Graduate University, 2004-present.

Chair, Ph. D. Program Committee, Claremont Graduate University, 2003-present.

Member, MBA Steering Committee, Claremont Graduate University, 2002-2003.

Chair, Ph. D. Program Committee, Claremont Graduate University, 2000-2002. Led the reorganization of the program into mentor-protégé model.

Member, Technology in Teaching Task Force, Claremont Graduate University, 2000.

Member, Department of Management Chair Search Committee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1999-2000.

Founding Faculty Advisor, Sigma Iota Epsilon (Honorary Management Fraternity) – University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1997-1999.

Chair, College of Business Nominations Committee – University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1998-1999.

Member, College of Business Nominations Committee – University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1997-1998.

Member, Management Department Curriculum Committee – University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1997-2000.

Vice President, Association for Doctoral Students - University of Maryland-College Park, 1993-1994.

Professional Memberships:

Member, Academy of Management.

Member, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Member, American Psychological Association.

Professional Service:

Member, Editorial Board, Leadership Quarterly, 2001-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Leadership Review, 2002-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Human Resource Management Review, 2003-present.

Ad hoc Reviewer, Organizational Research Methods, 1999-present.

Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Managerial Issues, 2000-present.

Reviewer, 1998 Southern Management Association Conference.

Reviewer, 1998 Southeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference.

Reviewer, 1999 Academy of Management Conference.

Reviewer, 2000 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference.

Reviewer, 2003 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference.

Reviewer, 2004 Western Academy of Management Conference.

T E A C H I N G

Teaching Experience:

Executive Education

Have led executive education courses on: Teamwork; Leadership; Strategic Thinking; Organization Design; Change Management; Team Design; Negotiation; and Conflict Management.

Claremont Graduate University, July 2000 – present.

Responsible for teaching the core Organizational Behavior course and the Leadership Lessons from Arts and Humanities elective course in the MBA program as well as coordinating the teaching of adjunct professors in OB.  Average teaching evaluation 6.52 out of 7.00 maximum.

Responsible for teaching the core Organizational Behavior course and the Team Leadership elective course in the Executive MBA program.  Average teaching evaluation 6.40 out of 7.00 maximum.

Master of Science in Organizational Behavior Thesis committee chair.  Carlos Puertas, (in process).  Top management team diversity and organizational performance: The moderating effects of environmental dynamism in upper echelons theory predictions.

Doctor of Philosophy in Management committee chair. John Stovall, (proposal defended).  Shared leadership in for-profit and not-for-profits organizations.

Doctor of Philosophy in Management committee chair. Eugene Justin, (proposal defended).  Leadership, resistance to influence and organizational outcomes.

University of North Carolina-Charlotte, August 1996 - 2000.

Responsible for teaching Principles of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Leadership at the Undergraduate level and Organizational Behavior and Leadership at the Graduate level. 

Spear-headed efforts to transform the undergraduate introductory management course into a team-taught modular course.

Directed study chair.  Gregory Rode, (Spring, 1997).  The impact of managerial enablement on team development.

Directed study chair. Robert Jessup, (Fall, 1997).  Empowerment with an edge:  Implementing shared leadership in the new American workforce.

Directed study co-chair with Claudio Carpano.  Del S. Fetters, (Spring, 1998).  Transnational management: How teams work to affect transfer of knowledge across borders.

Master of Science in Psychology Thesis committee member.  Cynthia A. Gallager (Spring, 1998). A longitudinal investigation of potency-effectiveness cycles.

University of Maryland-College Park, January 1995 - May 1995.

Responsible for teaching Organizational Behavior and Compensation Management.

Other

Have guest lectured in numerous undergraduate, masters and doctoral level courses.

Have developed and conducted numerous executive education courses and management development workshops.

Teaching Interests:

Leadership, Teamwork, and Organizational Behavior.

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