Teaching - Courses and Committees

a. Courses taught at Purdue University

1. Human Resource Systems: This course provides an extensive analysis of the components of human resource management, including systems for making decisions about people assets of the organization (e.g., selection, promotion, compensation), developing those assets (e.g., training, performance evaluation), and supervising the relationships between those assets and the organization (e.g., labor relations, job design, morale). The course is oriented to the professional human resource manager and is taught at the graduate level.

2. Human Resource Management: The focus of this course is the same as the above, except it is oriented to line management's human resource responsibilities and the interface between line management and the human resource staff. This course it taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

3. Research Methods for Human Resource Management: This course focuses on the logic and techniques of the research process, especially as it relates to human resource decisions and activities in business organizations. The course is analytical and includes conducting research projects. It is oriented to the professional human resource manager and is taught at the graduate level.

4. Staffing Systems: This as a two-part course. The first part focuses on staffing methods and tools and includes topics such as job analysis, reliability and validity, equal employment laws, selection techniques, and hiring decisions. This second part focuses on staffing processes and issues such as planning, recruiting, promotion and transfer, interviewing, staffing teams, and turnover. This course is oriented to the professional human resource manager and it taught at the graduate level.

5. Managing Your Workforce for High Performance: The course focuses on the high performance workforce management practices that are used by today's best organizations. These state-of-the-art practices include such topics as advanced staffing techniques, the latest training approaches, how to recruit to get the best employees, how to develop the careers of top talent, how to use compensation and benefits to motivate high performance, how to create an organizational culture that reinforces high performance, and other topics. The course is intended to address the needs of the general management audience.

6. Organizational Development: OD refers to the application of behavioral sciences knowledge and techniques to improve organizational effectiveness (e.g., productivity, quality, service, employee satisfaction). The focus is on how to diagnose an organization and then create an intervention to improve it. The course will describe the many theories of organizational development, techniques for diagnosing organizations, and interventions for improving organizations. Specific interventions will be examined in detail including structural interventions (e.g., organizational design, job design), interpersonal process interventions (e.g., process consultation, team building), and human resource interventions (e.g., performance management, career development). The course attempts to both build knowledge and provide practice in the various techniques.

7. Research Seminar in Human Resource Management: This is a Ph.D. seminar focusing on research methods, theories, and issues in human resources. It is designed for individuals aspiring to a research and teaching career in human resources or organizational behavior.

b. Ph.D. Committees:

Dr. Chi-Sum Wong (1989) -- chair

Dr. Laurence S. Fink (1990) -- committee member

Dr. John R. Cook (1991) -- committee member (School of Industrial Engineering)

Dr. Barbara K. Brown (1992) -- chair

Dr. Stephan K. Markham (1992) -- committee member

Dr. Michael J. Stevens (1993) -- chair

Dr. Gina J. Medsker (1993) -- committee member

Dr. Talya N. Bauer (1994) -- committee member

Dr. Christi A. Douglas (1994) -- committee member

Dr. Stanley B. Malos (1995) -- chair

Dr. Vincent Duffy (1996) -- committee member (School of Industrial Engineering)

Dr. Byungcho Kim (1996) -- committee member

Dr. Lynda Aiman-Smith (1996) -- committee member

Dr. Susan Kichuk (1997) –- external examiner (McMaster University, School of Business, Ontario, Canada)

Dr. David K. Palmer (1997) -– committee member

Dr. Frederick P. Morgeson (1998) -– co-chair

Dr. Carl P. Maertz (1998) – chair

Dr. Richard A. Posthuma (1999) – committee member

Dr. Laura L. Paglis (1999) – committee member

Dr. Sheryl L. Shivers (1999) – committee member

Dr. Shoshana Magazine (2001) – committee member

Dr. Troy V. Mumford (2002) – chair

Dr. Julia Levashina (2005) – chair

Dr. Rebecca Bull (2008) – committee member

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