Steven L. McShane is Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia , where he receives high teaching ratings from students in Perth , Singapore , and other cities in Asia where UWA offers its programs . He is also an Honorary Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia and previously taught in the business faculties at Simon Fraser University and Queen's University in Canada . Steve has conducted executive seminars with Nokia Wesfarmers Group, ALCOA World Alumina Australia , and many other organizations. He is also a popular visiting speaker, having given four-dozen talks to faculty and students in almost a dozen countries over the past three years.

Steve earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in organizational behavior, human resource management, and labor relations. He also holds a Master of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto , and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University in Canada . Steve has served as President of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the Academy of Management ) and Director of Graduate Programs in the business faculty at Simon Fraser University .

Along with co-authoring Organizational Behavior , 4e, Steve is the author of Canadian Organizational Behaviour 6th ed. (2006) and co-author (with Tony Travaglione) of Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim , 2e (2007) and co-author (with Mary Ann von Glinow) of Organizational Behavior: Essentials (2007). He has also published several dozen articles, book chapters, and conference papers on diverse topics, including managerial decision making, organizational learning, socialization of new employees, gender bias in job evaluation, wrongful dismissal, media bias in business magazines, and labor union participation.

Steve enjoys spending his leisure time swimming, body board surfing, canoeing, skiing, and traveling with his wife and two daughters.

Mary Ann Von Glinow

Dr. Von Glinow is Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and is Research Professor of Management and International Business at Florida International University . She also is the 2006 Vice President of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and an editor of JIBS. Previously on the Marshall School faculty of the University of Southern California , she has an MBA and Ph. D in Management Science from The Ohio State University. Dr. Von Glinow was the 1994-95 President of the Academy of Management , the world's largest association of academicians in management and is a Fellow of the Academy, and the Pan Pacific Business Association. She sits on eleven editorial review boards and numerous international panels. She teaches in executive programs in Latin America , Central America , the Caribbean region, Asia and the U.S.

Dr. Von Glinow has authored over 100 journal articles and eleven books. Her most recent include Managing Multinational Teams , by Elsevier 2005; Organizational Learning Capability by Oxford University Press, 1999 (in Chinese and Spanish translation) which won a Gold Book Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan in 2002. She also has a popular textbook: Organizational Behavior, 2007, McGraw-Hill/Irwin and a recently published OB Essentials (2007). She heads an international consortium of researchers delving intoa “Best International Human Resource Management Practices,” and her research in this arena won an award from the American Society for Competitiveness' Board of Trustees. She also received an NSF grant to study globally-distributed work. Dr. Von Glinow is the 2005 Academy of Management recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, one of the Academy's 3 highest honors bestowed.

Mary Ann consults to a number of domestic and multinational enterprises, and serves as a mayoral appointee to the Shanghai Institute of Human Resources in China . Since 1989, she has been a consultant in General Electric's “Workout” and “Change Acceleration Program” including “Coaching to Management.” Her clients have included Asia Development Bank, American Express, Diageo, Knight-Ridder, Burger King, Pillsbury, Westinghouse, Southern California Edison, The Aetna, State of Florida, Kaiser Permanente, TRW, Rockwell Int'l, Motorola, N.Y. Life, Amoco, Lucent, and Joe's Stone Crabs, to name a few. She is on the Board of Friends of WLRN, Fielding University , Friends of Bay Oaks, Pan-Pacific Business Association and Animal Alliance in Los Angeles . She is actively involved in several animal welfare organizations and received the 1996 Humanitarian Award of the Year from Miami 's Adopt-a-Pet.