Managing Now
Gary Dessler is a Founding Professor at Florida International University, teaching hybrid classroom/online courses in human resource management, strategic management, and management. Professor Dessler has also served associate dean, and department chair during his 12-year tenure.He has degrees from New York University (B.S.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S.), and the Baruch School of Business of the City University of New York (Ph.D.). His best selling Human Resource Management, 10/e (Prentice Hall, 2005) blends theory and practical applications and is also available in Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Malaysian, Portuguese, Indian, French, Lithuanian, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and in various international English language editions published for specific markets, including India.In addition to Human Resource Management, Dessler is the author of Management: Modern Principles and Practices for Tomorrow's Leaders (Prentice Hall 2004), Framework for Human Resource Management (Prentice Hall), and Winning Commitment: How to Build and Keep a Competitive Workforce (McGraw-Hill). Many of these texts are also available in foreign translation are in use by students and managers around the world. Dr. Dessler has published articles on employee commitment, leadership, and quality improvement in journals including the Academy of Management Executive, and Administrative Science Quarterly, and presented, most recently, a paper titled "Human Resource Management in China: Past, Present, and Future" at the Asia Academy of Management meetings in Shanghai (December 2004).Well-respected and honored in his field, Dr. Dessler was recently appointed visiting professor at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, and for the past three years he has served as a member of the Institute of International Education's national selection committee for the Fulbright student awards. His syndicated "Job Talk" column has appeared in the Miami Herald and other prominent paperJean Phillips is a professor in the Human Resource Management department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in organizational behavior and human resource management. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses in topics including organizational behavior, strategic human resource management, staffing, and teams and leadership in the United States and in Singapore at the undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D., and Executive Master's levels.  Jean was among the top 5 percent of published authors in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s and received the 2004 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Her research interests focus on recruitment and staffing, leadership and team effectiveness, and issues related to learning organizations. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Small Group Research, Journal of Business and Psychology, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and the Journal of Business and Psychology. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.  Her consulting work includes the creation and evaluation of strategic recruitment and staffing programs, evaluating recruiting source effectiveness, coaching on enhancing leadership performance and work team effectiveness, and the development and evaluation of employee survey programs.