Steven L. McShane is Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He is also an Honourary Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia. Steve previously taught in the business faculties at Simon Fraser University and Queen’s University in Canada. He is a past president of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

Steve earned his PhD from Michigan State University, a Master of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto, and an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Kingston. He receives high teaching ratings from MBA and doctoral students in Perth, Australia, Singapore, and other cities where UWA offers its programs. Steve is also a popular visiting speaker, having given more than 40 talks over the past two years to faculty and students at universities around the world.

Along with writing Canadian Organizational Behaviour, Steve and Professor Mary Anne Von Glinow co-author Organizational Behavior: Emerging Realities for the Workplace Revolution, Third Edition (2005), McGraw-Hill’s highly successful American adaptation of this text, as well as their brief edition, Organizational Behavior: Essentials (2006). Steve is also a co-author with Professor Tony Travaglione of Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim, Enhanced Edition (2005), which, in its first three years, matched the popularity of the incumbent best-selling OB book in Australia and New Zealand. Steve has published several dozen articles and conference papers on the socialization of new employees, gender bias in job evaluation, wrongful dismissal, media bias in business magazines, and other diverse issues.

Along with teaching and writing, Steve enjoys spending his leisure time swimming, body board surfing, canoeing, skiing, and travelling with his wife and two daughters.