Management
shift from org charts to strategy

Management Professor Emeritus Dick Gonzalez started teaching at Michigan State University's College of Business and Public Service in 1956. "At that time, the university was doing very well," he says. "There was an explosion of wealth, and the car industry was booming."

When Gonzalez came on board, his area of expertise was a part of one of three main departments in the college — the catch-all department — called General Business, which included Management, Marketing, Finance and Business Letter Writing, among others. Shortly thereafter, management became a separate department in 1960 after Dean Alfred Seelye came onboard. The Production and Personnel Administration department included many management specialties in addition to purchasing, which was later grouped with Supply Chain Management.

Leading researchers, teachers join Broad School

The college recently hired three new faculty members, two of whom were brought to the Broad School specifically to strengthen the college's offerings in strategy. Kent Miller (PhD University of Minnesota) and Gerry McNamara (PhD University of Minnesota) will start in fall 2005, bringing the total number of strategy faculty to seven. "They're young, bright people... productive researchers and really good teachers," says Management Chair John Wagner. "With seven faculty total in this concentration, we now have one of the strongest strategy areas in the country." Lois Kurowski (PhD University of Illinois) will be filling a teaching specialist role in Human Resources Management.

They will join the other Management faculty who have published in the field's major journals during 2004-05, including Professor Donald Conlon, whose research focuses on perceptions of justice in organizational settings. He recently published, "The Fairness of Decision Rules," in the Journal of Management. Assistant Professor Remus Ilies investigates the influence of dispositions and affect on broad organizational outcomes such as leadership, motivation and job attitudes. His work, "Individual Differences in Leadership Emergence: Integrating Meta-Analytic Findings and Behavioral Genetics Estimates," was published in the International Journal of Selection and Assessment.

Professors who use the Broad School's Team Effectiveness Teaching Lab have been steadily producing two to four research papers for major publications every year. Eli Broad Professor of Management John Hollenbeck, one of the lab's leading researchers, recently published, "Asymmetrical Adaptability: Dynamic Structures as One-Way Streets," in the Academy of Management Journal.

• Ingrid Fulmer