Angelo Kinicki

Angelo Kinicki is a Professor and Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University. He joined the faculty in 1982, the year he received his doctorate in business administration from Kent State University. His specialty is Organizational Behaviour.

Angelo is recognized for both his research and his teaching. He has published over 75 articles in a variety of leading academic and professional journals, and has co-authored three textbooks. Angelo’s success as a researcher also resulted in his selection to serve on the editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the Journal of Management. He received the All Time Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Journal for the period 1996–99. Angelo’s outstanding teaching performance resulted in his selection as the Graduate Teacher of the Year and the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year in the W P Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He also was acknowledged as the Instructor of the Year for Executive Education from the Center for Executive Development at Arizona State University.

One of Angelo’s strengths is his ability to teach students at all levels within a university. He uses an interactive environment to enhance undergraduates’ understanding of management and organizational behaviour. He focuses MBAs on applying management concepts to solve complex problems; PhD students learn the art and science of conducting scholarly research.

Angelo also is a busy consultant and speaker with companies around the world. His clients are many of the Fortune 500 companies as well as a variety of entrepreneurial firms. Much of his consulting work focuses on creating organizational change aimed at increasing organizational effectiveness and profitability. One of Angelo’s most important and enjoyable pursuits is the practical application of his knowledge of management and organizational behaviour. Angelo and his wife Joyce have enjoyed living in the beautiful Arizona desert for 22 years, but are natives of Cleveland, OH. They enjoy travelling, golfing, and hiking.

Robert Kreitner

Robert Kreitner, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Management at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU in 1975, Bob taught at Western Illinois University. He also has taught organizational behaviour at the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). Bob is a popular speaker who has addressed a diverse array of audiences worldwide on management topics. He is a member of ASU’s W P Carey School of Business Faculty Hall of Fame.

Bob has authored articles for journals such as Organizational Dynamics, Business Horizons, and Journal of Business Ethics. He also is the co-author (with Fred Luthans) of the award-winning book Organizational Behavior Modification and Beyond: An Operant and Social Learning Approach, and the author of Management, 9th edition, a bestselling introductory management text. Among his consulting and executive development clients have been American Express, SABRE Computer Services, Honeywell, Motorola, Amdahl, the Hopi Indian Tribe, State Farm Insurance, Goodyear Aerospace, Doubletree Hotels, Bank One-Arizona, Nazarene School of Large Church Management, US Steel, Ford, Caterpillar, and Allied Signal. In 1981–82 he served as Chairman of the Academy of Management’s Management Education and Development Division.

On the personal side, Bob was born in Buffalo, NY. After a four-year enlistment in the US Coast Guard, including service on the icebreaker Eastwind in Antarctica, Bob attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha on a football scholarship. Bob also holds an MBA from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While working on his PhD in Business at Nebraska, he spent six months teaching management courses for the University in Micronesia. In 1996, Bob taught two courses in Albania’s first-ever MBA program (funded by the US Agency for International Development and administered by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln). He taught a summer leadership program in Switzerland from 1995 to 1998. Bob and his wife, Margaret, live in Phoenix with their two cats and a pet Starling, and they enjoy travel, hiking, woodcarving, and fishing.

Nina Cole

Nina Cole is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management at Ryerson University in Toronto. Prior to her academic career, she spent 12 years in the business world—eight years as a human resources management consultant and four years as a human resources manager. The last 17 years have been spent as an academic, teaching and conducting research in human resources management and organizational behaviour.

Nina has published articles in both academic journals and industry publications, and has led seminars to assist managers in these challenging areas. She has spoken and written on these topics on numerous occasions and has also co-authored textbooks on human resources management and compensation. Nina served as President of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada for 2005–2006.