Thomas S. Bateman is Bank of America Professor and management area coordinator in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He teaches leadership courses and is director of a new leadership minor open to undergraduate students of all majors. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he taught organizational behavior at the Kenan-Flager Business School of the University of North Carolina to undergraduates, M.B.A. students, Ph.D. students, and practicing managers. He also taught for two years in Europe as a visiting professor at the Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the world's leaders in the design and delivery of executive education. Professor Bateman completed his doctoral program in business administration in 1980 at Indiana University. Prior to receiving his doctorate, Dr. Bateman received his B.A. from Miami University. In addition to Virginia, UNC-Chapel Hill, and IMD, Dr. Bateman has taught at Texas A&M, Tulane, and Indiana universities.

Professor Bateman is an active management researcher, writer, and consultant. He has served on the editorial boards of major academic journals and has presented numerous papers at professional meetings on topics including managerial decision making, job stress, negotiation, employee commitment and motivation, group decision making, and job satisfaction. His articles have appeared in professional journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Business Horizons, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Decision Sciences.

Dr. Bateman's current consulting and research centers on practical wisdom in business executives, leadership in the form of problem solving at all organizational levels, various types of proactive behavior by employees at all levels, and the successful pursuit of long-term work goals. He works with organizations including Nokia, Singapore Airlines, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Nature Conservancy, and LexisNexis.

Scott Snell is the E. Thayer Bigelow Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business. He teaches in the Leadership and Organization area and specializes in strategic human resource management. He has worked with a number of Future 500 companies to address the alignment of investments in talent and strategic capability.

Professor Snell is the author of more than 50 publications in professional journals and edited texts, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Managerial Issues, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Dynamics, Organization Studies, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal. He has coauthored four books: Managing Human Resources, Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World, M: Management, and Managing People and Knowledge in Professional Service Firms, and has coedited the Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management. He has served on the boards of the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, the Academy of Management's Human Resource Division, the Human Resource Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 2007, Scott was Professor and Director of Executive Education at Cornell University's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies and Professor of Management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. He received a B.A. in psychology from Miami University, as well as M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in business administration from Michigan State University. Originally from Lodi, Ohio, Scott now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife and three children.