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Teaching Philosophy
Success in teaching means building students' critical reasoning faculty along
with imparting subject matter. Students are expected to have a desire to learn,
respect for their peers, academic and personal integrity, and a positive
attitude. My responsibility back to them includes the use of a variety of
teaching methods: cases, multi-media lecture presentations based on the latest
research findings, experiential exercises & role-plays, group
discussions and applied projects. I attempt
to connect theoretical concepts and tools to real-world scenarios,
through my own experiences and those of working managers.
If I do my job well, students realize that their experience in the classroom
is just a step toward a lifetime of learning and application. They will inform
their own management practices with the wisdom of others, yet their strategy
will be to push the envelope of possibility. While also improving their
knowledge base and technical skill, they will have created a foundation for
their own productive contribution to organizations and to society.
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Teaching Team Initiatives to MBA students
Tonto National Forest, AZ
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Courses Taught
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Below are courses that I have taught at Kogod (AU) and Arizona
State University. Additionally, I've conducted numerous management training courses in
organizational behavior areas such as leadership, managing diversity,
personality styles, and team-building.
 | MGT 609: Organizational Behavior & Human
Resource Management
A core MBA course taught through an intensive mix of short cases and
scenarios.
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| MGT 353: Principles of Management,
Organizational Theory, & Behavior
An introduction to management for all business majors, this course
primarily focuses on OB.
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| MGT
480: Team Management Skills
I drew the content for this senior seminar from my prior training
experience, combined with the latest research findings on how to manage
(rather than merely understand) organizational workgroups. The curriculum
pairs experiential exercises with management techniques.
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| MGT 311:
Human Resource Management
Based on the class composition, I emphasize the relevance of the subject for
either HR administrators, everyday managers (a more strategic view), or a
combination of both.
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| COB 300: Strategic Business
Foundations
As the introductory course for all incoming business students (700
students per term!), this
class afforded opportunity to teach cross-functional issues and
basic business strategy. I was one member of a small team of faculty
instructors.
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| MGT 352: Human Behavior in
Organizations
The basics of the "people" side of management, including both
individual-level and meso (multilevel) perspectives.
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| MGT 597: Diversity in Human Resource Management
This MBA course focused on the guidelines for and challenges of
managing human diversity in an organizational context.
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