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Department of Management - News and Events -
_______________________________________ Tjai Nielsen, assistant professor of management, becomes only the third GWSB professor in the past ten years to be awarded the university-wide Bender Teaching Award Dr. Nielsen has been recognized by George Washington University for his outstanding efforts in the classroom and his positive impact on students. A former student from one of his change management classes wrote, "Dr. Nielsen has the unique ability to mesh the theories and practices of change management with real-life consulting engagements. This ability is essential to effective business education. I have discovered over the last two years that my favorite and most rewarding courses came from the professors who demanded the most. Dr. Nielsen gives a lot and demands the same in return." An Executive MBA student from his organizational behavior class commented, "The George Washington University is fortunate to have Dr. Nielsen on staff. His experience, ability to impart knowledge in a condensed course model, commitment to academic excellence, and his rapport with students is a rare combination. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from him. . The Bender Teaching Awards recognize undergraduate, graduate and professional teaching at GW and are presented annually at the start of the academic year. Endowed by Morton Bender and The George Washington University, each award provides a $500 prize to be used by the recipient for faculty development activities, such as travel to professional meetings or the purchase of equipment or materials to be used for teaching. Award recipients are selected by a committee of faculty each spring semester, and the awards are presented at the beginning of the subsequent fall semester.
Tjai Nielsen, assistant professor of management was recognized for his excellence in the classroom recently by being awarded the GWSB Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Nielsen teaches a broad range of classes ranging from research methods in the doctoral program to organizational behavior in the EMBA program. He has been consistently recognized by his students by earning an average student evaluation score of 4.6/5.0 across all categories. This includes a 4.4/5.0 rating regarding the degree to which students find his courses challenging. The GWSB Teaching Excellence Award was created several years ago to recognize outstanding teaching and is open to any full-time active-status faculty member. Faculty members must have an overall average score of at least 4.0 on the GWSB standard student feedback instrument and have taught at least 100 students during the relevant calendar year. A committee comprised of all department chairs led by the senior associate dean then determine the winner(s). Dr. Nielsen was also awarded $2500 as part of this recognition. James Bailey, Ave Tucker Professorial Fellow of Leadership and professor of management, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “Law Firms Embrace Business School 101.” The article examined how some law firms are pushing their top attorneys to step up their business skills and training.
James Bailey, Ave Tucker Professorial Fellow of Leadership and professor of management, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “Law Firms Embrace Business School 101.” The article examined how some law firms are pushing their top attorneys to step up their business skills and training. The article said: “ ‘Law firms are still run the way they were in the 17th century,’ says James Bailey, a leadership professor at the George Washington School of Business who studies law firms and helps run a program for managing partners. ‘They never really had to worry about [management skills] because every law firm in the country made money every year.’ ” (5/20) George Solomon, associate professor of management is honored as one of eleven distinguished educators at the 32nd Annual Leavey Awards.
Established in 1977 by the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, the Leavey Awards honor outstanding elementary, junior high school, high school and college teachers who inspire students to gain a better understanding and appreciation of the free enterprise system. Since the inception of the award, five hundred distinguished educators have been selected. The 2009 class included: Dr. George T. Solomon, Department of Management fir his efforts in developing the Entrepreneurial Challenge. The Entrepreneurial Challenge was created in response to a request from the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA), College Division -Delta Epsilon Chi- to create an interactive event that would stimulate students to grasp the basic concepts of entrepreneurship as part of the DECA annual International Career Development Conference. The Challenge engages college level students in a two day program where teams or individuals must develop a new business concept and present the final plan in a competitive setting. The purpose of the Challenge is to educate and inform students and their collegiate advisors about basic principles underlying the concepts and theories of entrepreneurship and small business management education. The Entrepreneurial Challenge combines the best elements of 'the elevator pitch concept," with the high energy concept of “speed dating.” Students are initially exposed to a select number of informative sessions over two days delivered by educators and entrepreneurs
George Solomon, associate professor of Management, is awarded Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.
Emerald invites each journal's Editorial Team to nominate what they believe has been that title's Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers from the previous 12 months. George Solomon, Associate professor of Management, is awarded Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009. The article entitled Entrepreneurial selection and success: Does education matter? published in Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development has been chosen as an Outstanding paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009. American Librarian Association named Dr. James Bailey's book International encyclopedia of organization studies, Volumes 1-4 (co-edited with Stewart Clegg) one of the Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008.
International encyclopedia of organization studies, Volumes 1-4 (co-edited with Stewart Clegg) one of the Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008. ALA announced this is Choice magazine, and had considered over 7000 new books.
Dr. George Solomon is awarded National Innovator Teaching Pedagogy Award at the United States Association for Small Business (USASBE) Conference.
At the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) annual conference the 2009 National Innovator Teaching Pedagogy Award was awarded to Dr. George T. Solomon, for the development of the multi-level small business role playing pedagogy. When asked by the judges the motivation for developing the pedagogy, Dr. Solomon said, “I wanted to create an active committed learning environment where students assumed the role and behavior of a small business manager rather than a detached external consultant advising a small business.”
Each year freshman compete in a case competition as a part of their required course in Organizational Behavior (BADM 66). The case competition offers young students the opportunity to create and analyze their own business case, and also to present their case analysis to their fellow classmates in a skit. The winning team from each of the six lab sections competes in a final competition that is judged by faculty and guest judges. The Fall 2008 Case Competition winners were the “Blue Barracudas” for their inventive skit entitled “Pasadena Paul’s Perfect Professional Practical Portable Pliable Paperclip People.” Their skit traced the adventures of several colorful employees working for a company in the highly competitive paper-clip market, and in so doing illustrated several core concepts of the course. The winners receive a certificate of recognition and distinction from the GW Business School. Congratulations to all the finalists! Picture: Blue Barracudas in character from their winning presentation. Caroline Cauley, Jared Hay, Timothy Papa, Laura Scuderi, Lea Thierman. Academy of Management Learning and Management (AMLE) ranks 7th among all Management journals. Dr. James Bailey, Editor.
After the mandatory three year waiting period and the mandatory three year study period, SSCI/ISI has issued the formal Impact Factor and discipline ranking of AMLE. AMLE's Impact Factor is 2.796, ranking it 7th among all Management journals--just .116 behind 5th place ASQ and .033 behind 6th place SMJ--and 2nd among all Education journals (see attached for full lists).
This extraordinary accomplishment speaks not only the quality and relevance of AMLE, but also to the dedication of the Editorial Board, the astute leadership of the founding editor Roy Lewicki, the support of the Academy of Management, and the efforts of many others. To one and all, thank you and congratulations! This is a collective achievement for which we can all be proud.
G.W. Board of Advisors recognizes Dr. Patrick McHugh and Ph.D. candidate George Hrivnak for their outstanding commitment to the school.
Each year the GWSB Board of Advisors recognizes members of the School of Business for their outstanding commitment to the school. A faculty member, a staff member, doctoral student, MBA candidate, and undergraduate student are nominated by students, faculty, and colleagues as recipients of the award. This year two of those recipients are members of the Department of Management. Patrick P McHugh is an associate professor of employment and labor relations in the Management Department. He received a B. S. in Business Administration at Bowling Green State University and an M. A. in Economics from Washington State University. He has served as a consultant to private sector firms, government agencies, non profits, and several labor organizations. His research has appeared in Industrial Relations, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Human Relations, Journal of Labor Research, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Personnel Review, Journal of Organizational Change Management, and the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association. George Hrivnak is currently an instructor and doctoral fellow at The GWSB in the field of Organizational Behavior and Development and is a former Associate Director of the Executive Development Program at GWSB. He is currently exploring potential applications of social network theory to some these areas as potential dissertation topics. George also recently joined a multi-phase CIBER research project led by Dr. Liesl Riddle and Dr. Tjai Nielsen to examine diaspora investment phenomena where he hopes to explore the role of incubators in entrepreneurial development. Dr. James Bailey passes leadership of Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) Journal to Dr. J. Ben Arbaugh
After serving on the founding editorial team, as Associate Editor for three years, and as Editor-in-Chief for four years, James R. Bailey is passing on the leadership of the Academy of Management Learning & Education. AMLE is one of the flagship journals of the Academy of Management with around 20,000 subscriptions. In its short history, AMLE has become an important scholarly outlet, having published several of the most cited papers in all of management and business. Bailey will remain Editor-in-Chief through 31 December 2008, but new submissions will be reviewed by the incoming editor beginning 1 July 2008. Pictured from left to right are J. Ben Arbaugh, the incoming Editor-in-Chief, Lee McKinster, the current Managing Editor, and James Bailey Congratulations! Dr. Jonathan D. Raelin will be leaving George Washington University to become an Assistant Professor of Management at Loyola College in Maryland.
After serving on the founding editorial Jonathan D. Raelin will be leaving George Washington University to become an Assistant Professor of Management at Loyola College in Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from George Washington University Department of Management in organizational behavior and development in 2007. Dr. Raelin completed his degree requirements in three years - the fastest time of any School of Business graduate ever at GWU. His current research interests focus on affect and its subdivisions( i.e., emotions, mood, and feelings), resistance to change, and the interrelationship between these variables. He has been published in a number of journals, including Action Research, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management Inquiry, Business Office, and Systems Thinker. In addition, his work has been presented at conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the Eastern Academy of Management, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. he worked as an organizational behavior consultant for both the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Society for Organizational Learning in Boston, MA. We wish him the best of luck!
Professors Tjai Nielsen and Liesl Riddle to Present Research at United Nations "Diasporas [migrants living abroad] are increasingly investing in their home countries by setting up production facilities, marketing subsidiaries, or brand new companies in their homelands. Some also invest in homeland bonds, mutual funds, or other homeland portfolio investments," said Riddle. "Our research team investigates why diasporas make these investments, the obstacles diasporas face during the investment decision-making process, and the performance of diaspora investments. We also examine the roles that governments and non-governmental organizations can play to cultivate and facilitate investments from diaspora communities." The research examines the economic impact of migrants who live abroad and invest in their home countries. Nielsen and Riddle have received two research grants from the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). The professors have also designed a training CD that provides an overview of the diaspora homeland investment phenomenon and outlines the research and teaching implications of diaspora homeland investment. CIBER is distributing the CD to business faculty throughout the country. Currently, Nielsen and Riddle along with two research assistants, George Hrivnak and Valentina Marano, are pursing multiple research projects involving: a multi-country survey of diaspora community members regarding their investment intentions; an investment promotion agency census; and fieldwork with an investment incubator targeting potential diaspora investors. They are also collaborating with the World Bank on a diaspora-investment related research project.
GWSB's Department of Management Molds Young Leaders
Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom (Hardcover)
by Eric H. Kessler (Editor), James R. Bailey (Editor)
“A brilliant and comprehensive introduction to the most seminal component of leadership: wisdom. The diversity of the readings and wisdom of the authors make this a most original and valuable addition to the management canon.” —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Southern California and author of On Becoming a Leader “This wonderful compilation proves that management is as much art as science, and that deep thinking can inform and inspire practice to be more humane, ethical, and, yes, wise.” —Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End _______________________________________
Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon engaging real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can result in the breakdown of learning in teams. He questions assumptions about traditional leadership and calls for rethinking the role of the leader. This provides an unparalleled analysis of leadership and practical strategies for overcoming destructive pursuit of goals. _______________________________________
The International Office for the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and a team of GW faculty and staff members in cooperation with Dell Inc. recently completed a global research study on small business. Their joint study, which included a 12 country survey of small business owners, decision makers, and a targeted survey of international small business researchers, practitioners, and consultants, confirmed that information technology is extremely important in the growth of small businesses world-wide. "Dell's sponsorship of this sort of multi-national study is not just important for research; it also represents a significant new partnership between Dell and ICSB through the GW School of Business," said Ayman El Tarabishy, executive director of ICSB and adjunct faculty of management. The team provided details on research and data collection at the recent world conference of ICSB held in Turku, Finland. Leading the effort at the meeting were Tarabishy; Susan Duffy, visiting assistant professor of management; George Solomon, associate professor of management; Sergio D'Onofrio, department of management administrative director; David Tomczyk, Ph.D candidate of management; Sergey Ivanov, GW systems specialist; and Luigia D'Onofrio, undergraduate honors student. Founded in 1955, ICSB was the first international membership organization to promote the growth and development of small businesses worldwide. It accomplishes this through bringing together educators, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to share their knowledge and experiences in their respective fields. To learn more about ICSB, visit : http://www.icsb.org International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies (Hardcover)
by Stewart R. Clegg (Editor), James R. Bailey (Editor)
The International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies is a definitive description of the field, spanning individual, organizational, societal, and cultural perspective in a cross-disciplinary manner. Editors Stewart R. Clegg and James R. Bailey have sought to capture much of the cutting-edge thinking that characterizes the best scholarship internationally. The Encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and entries are based around a series of broad themes.
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