Additionally, he recently received the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award to be visiting faculty in the MBA program at Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus), and is a visiting faculty member in other graduate business programs in the UK, France, Poland, and China. He received a Master of Public Administration degree with an emphasis on Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. As a doctoral student at the University of Utah, his research interests combined comparative international sociology and the sociology of work and organizations. His ongoing research examines issues of globalization, labor transformation, work quality characteristics, and the determinants of job satisfaction cross-nationally.