Steven L. McShane

Steven L. McShane is Winthrop Professor of Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School, where he receives high teaching ratings from students in Perth, Singapore, Manila, and other cities where UWA has offered its programs. He previously taught in the business faculties at Simon Fraser University and Queen’s University in Canada. Steve is also a popular visiting speaker, having given dozens of invited talks and seminars in recent years to faculty and students in the United States, China, Canada, Malaysia, India, and other countries.

Steve earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where he specialized in organizational behavior and labor relations. He also holds a Master’s of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Canada. Steve is a past president of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the Academy of Management) and served as Director of Graduate Programs in Simon Fraser University’s business faculty. He has conducted executive programs with Nokia, TÜV-SÜD, Wesfarmers Group, Main Roads WA, McGraw-Hill, ALCOA World Alumina Australia, and many other organizations.

Along with co-authoring Organizational Behavior, Seventh Edition, Steve is lead co-author of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, Eighth Edition (2012), Organisational Behaviour: Asia Pacific, Fourth Edition (2013), and M: Organizational Behavior, Second Edition (2014). He is also co-author of editions or translations of his organizational behavior books in China, India, Quebec, Taiwan, and Brazil. Steve has published several dozen articles and conference papers on workplace values, training transfer, organizational learning, exit-voice-loyalty, employee socialization, wrongful dismissal, media bias in business magazines, and other diverse topics.

Steve enjoys spending his leisure time hiking, swimming, body board surfing, canoeing, skiing, and travelling with his wife and two daughters.

Mary Ann Von Glinow

Dr. Von Glinow is a Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Chair in International Management, and has been Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research at Florida International University for the past 17 years. She is the 2010 to 2012 President of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and an editor of JIBS. Previously on the Marshall School faculty of the University of Southern California, she has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Management Science from The Ohio State University. Dr. Von Glinow was the 1994–95 President of the Academy of Management, the world’s largest association of academicians in management, and is a Fellow of the Academy and the Pan-Pacific Business Association. She sits on 11 editorial review boards and numerous international panels. She teaches in executive programs in Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean region, Asia, and the U.S.

Dr. Von Glinow has authored over 100 journal articles and 13 books. Her most recent books include Managing Multinational Teams (Elsevier, 2005) and Organizational Learning Capability (Oxford University Press, 1999; in Chinese and Spanish translation), which won a Gold Book Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan in 2002. She has also coauthored the popular Organizational Behavior, Sixth Edition, textbook and M: Organizational Behavior, First Edition (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2012). She heads an international consortium of researchers delving into “Best International Human Resource Management Practices,” and her research in this arena won an award from the American Society for Competitiveness’ Board of Trustees. She also received an NSF grant to study globally distributed work. Dr. Von Glinow is the 2005 Academy of Management recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, which is one of the Academy’s three highest honors bestowed.

Mary Ann is consultant to a number of domestic and multinational enterprises, and serves as a mayoral appointee to the Shanghai Institute of Human Resources in China. Since 1989, she has been a consultant in General Electric’s “Workout” and “Change Acceleration Program” including “Coaching to Management.” Her clients have included Asia Development Bank, American Express, Diageo, Knight Ridder, Burger King, Pillsbury, Westinghouse, Southern California Edison, Aetna, State of Florida, Kaiser Permanente, TRW, Rockwell Int’l, Motorola, N.Y. Life, Amoco, Lucent, and Joe’s Stone Crabs, to name a few. She is on the Board of Friends of WLRN, Fielding University, Friends of Bay Oaks, the Pan-Pacific Business Association, and Animal Alliance in Los Angeles. She is actively involved in several animal welfare organizations and received the 1996 Humanitarian Award of the Year from Miami’s Adopt-a-Pet.