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Organizational Behavior: [essentials], 2/e

Steven L. McShane, University of Western Australia
Mary Ann Von Glinow, Florida International University

ISBN: 0073381225
Copyright year: 2009

About the Authors



Steven L. McShane
Steven L. McShane is Professor of Management in the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia, where he receives high teaching ratings from students in Perth, Singapore, Manila, 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 several dozen talks to faculty and students in a dozen countries over the past three years.

Steve earned his PhD 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: [essentials] 2nd edition, Steve is co-author (with Mary Ann von Glinow) of Organizational Behavior, 4th edition (2007), co-author (with Tony Travaglione) of Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim, 2nd edition (2007), co-author (with Charles W. L. Hill) of Principles of Management, (2008), and the author of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 6th edition (2006). He has also published several dozen articles, book chapters, and conference papers on diverse topics, including values enactment, 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 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 Professor of Management and International Business at Florida International University. Previously on the Business School faculty of the University of Southern California, she has an MBA and PhD 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 11 editorial review boards and numerous international panels. She teaches in executive programs in Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean region, Asia, and the United States. She is Department Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies.

Dr. Von Glinow has authored more than 70 journal articles and 11 books. Her most recent includes 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 heads an international consortium of researchers delving into "Best International Human Resource Management Practices," and her research in this arena won an award from the American Society for Competitiveness' Board of Trustees.

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, Burger King, Pillsbury, Aetna, State of Florida, TRW, Rockwell Int'l, Motorola, N.Y. Life, Amoco, Lucent, and Joe's Stone Crabs, to name a few.

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