Organizational Behavior, 13th Edition

JOHN SCHERMERHORN

John Schermerhorn is the Charles G. O’Bleness Professor of Management in the College of Business at Ohio University. A specialist in organizational change, human resource productivity and inter-organizational cooperation, Dr. Schermerhorn has conducted management training and organization development programs for Corning Glass Works, Pepsico, Inc., American Bankers Association and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, among other organizations. He earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Northwestern University, after receiving an M.B.A. (with distinction) from New York University, and a B.S. in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Wiley is proud to publish John Schermerhorn’s innovative and applied books for the introductory management courses. Dr. Schermerhorn’s philosophy is anchored in bridging the gap between the theory and practice of management. His series of academic publications—Management, 12e, Exploring Management, 4e and Organizational Behavior, 13e—are an important part of the Wiley mission to provide the most current and comprehensive solutions to meet the changing needs of faculty and students.

DR. MARY UHL-BIEN

We are pleased to feature in the 13th Edition of Organizational Behavior the ideas, insights, and scholarly expertise of Dr. Mary Uhl-Bien. Mary brings extensive knowledge of leadership and relational processes in OB. She has received awards for her research, and is currently serving in the OB Division Chair track in the Academy of Management. She places deep value on rigor and relevance in OB, which she accomplishes by engaging in cutting edge research conducted through strong partnerships between scholars and practitioners.

Dr. Uhl-Bien is Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. She earned her Ph.D. and M.B.A. in organizational behavior at the University of Cincinnati after completing an undergraduate degree with a focus in International Business and Spanish. She teaches organizational behavior, leadership, and ethics courses at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA and doctoral) levels, and has been heavily involved in executive education around the world, teaching to business executives and physicians in the United States, China, Europe, and Saudi Arabia and to the senior executive service of the U.S. government for The Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. She has been a visiting professor/scholar at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, Lund University in Sweden, Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal, and University Lund in Sweden.

Dr. Uhl-Bien’s research interests are in leadership, followership, and ethics. In addition to her conceptual work on complexity and relational leadership, some of the empirical projects she is currently involved in include investigations of “Leadership and Adaptability in the Healthcare Industry” (a $300,000 grant from Booz Allen Hamilton), “Adaptive Leadership and Innovation: A Focus on Idea Generation and Flow” (at a major financial institution in the U.S.), and “Social Constructions of Followership and Leading Up.” She has published in such journals as The Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Management, and Human Relations. She won the Best Paper Award in The Leadership Quarterly in 2001 for her co-authored article on Complex Leadership. She has been on the editorial boards of The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, The Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, and The International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management, and is senior editor of the Leadership Horizons series (Information Age Publishers). Dr. Uhl-Bien has consulted with Disney, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, British Petroleum, and the General Accounting Office, and served as the executive consultant for State Farm Insurance Co. from 1998-2004. She has been a Visiting Scholar in Spain, Portugal, and Sweden. Dr. Uhl-Bien has trained Russian businesspeople for the American Russian Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage from 1993–1996, worked on a USAID grant at the Magadan Pedagogical Institute in Magadan, Russia from 1995–1996, and participated in a Fulbright-Hays grant to Mexico during the summer of 2003.