JOSEPH F. MICHLITSCH

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D.               University of Minnesota, 1980.  Strategic Management; Related Fields – Human Resources Management, Psychology, Sociology

 

MBA               University of South Dakota, 1970

 

B.S.                 South Dakota State University, 1969.  Economics, Political Science

 

AREAS OF INTEREST

 

Strategic Management and Planning (formulation and implementation), General Management, Management Education, Analytical Thinking and Writing, Organization Development, Training.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Strategic management and planning, general management, related business courses.

 

1979-present    Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Management

 

1976-79           University of Minnesota, Department of Management, Teaching Assistant

 

1972-76           Black Hills State College - SD, Business Division

 

1971-72           Dakota State College - SD, Business and Social Science Division

 

TEACHING RELATED

 

Faculty advisor to International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition Team.  Over 11 years, team placed fist, second, or third 6 times.

 

Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant-SIUE, author and project director: Funding to enter undergraduate team in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition.

·        1999-00, $2000 

·        1998-99, $2000 

·        1997-98, $5300

·        1996-97, $4240

·        1995-96, $5502

 

Program-Initiated Learning Assessment Fund Grant-SIUE ($1500), 1997-1998, author and project director:  Funding to support undergraduate team in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition. 

 

Senior Assignment Fund Grant‑SIUE, author and project director: Funding to support an undergraduate team in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition.

·        2005-06, $5,000

·        2003-04, $6,968

·        2002-03, $6,818

·        2001-02, $6, 308

·        1999-00, $5,048 

·        1998-99, $3,126 

·        1995-96, $1,336

·        1994-95, $5,502

     

Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant‑SIUE

·        1992‑1993, author and project director: Workshops to educate new faculty and selected graduate assistants in the School of Business in Writing Across the Curriculum. (with D. Ault & I. Smithson), ($2500).

·        1990‑1991, author and project director: Seminars to teach faculty in the School of Business in Writing Across the Curriculum (with D. Ault & I. Smithson), ($ 19000).

·        1989‑1990, project director: Research project to evaluate written communication in the School of Business classes (with D. Ault), ($36000).

·        1989‑1990. Develop core courses (GBA 300, GBA 400, MGMT 441) in the School of Business (with J. Danley, D. Elliott, et al.), ($40027).

 

Excellence in Graduate Education Grant-SIUE ($2500), 2003, for Mgmt. 595, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the World of Enron, Andersen & WorldCom.  (with M. Segal and J. Wilkerson)    

 

REFEREED ARTICLES

 

Assessing student learning outcomes:  A comparative study of techniques used in business school disciplines.  (with M. Siddle) Journal of Education for Business, January/February, 2002.

 

High-performing, loyal employees:  The real way to implement strategy.  Strategy & Leadership, November/December, 2000.

 

Diversity, performance, and satisfaction in student group projects: An empirical study. (with T. Schoenecker & K. Martell)  Research in Higher Education, October, 1997.

 

Guidelines related to disparate impact, burden of proof, and the 1991 Civil Rights Act: Analysis of federal court cases up to Wards Cove. Labor Law Journal, September, 1995.

 

Writing across the business curriculum: An alternative means of developing and assessing written communication skills. (with D. Ault) Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 24, 4, 1994.

 

Helping: The basis of managerial supervision. Industrial Management, September/October, 1992.

 

Competitor analysis: A crucial part of strategic planning. Business Insights, X, 1991.

 

Helping orientations: Four dimensions. (with S. Frankel) Perceptual and Motor Skills, December, 1989.

 

Alternate work schedules, productivity, leave usage and employee attitudes: A field study. (with E.J. Harrick & G.R. Vanek) Public Personnel Management, Summer, 1986.

 

Managing the span of control. (with D.L. Gipson) Supervisory Management, June, 1984.

 

REFEREED PROCEEDINGS

 

Helping orientations: Revised scale development to detect stylistic approaches. (with S. Frankel & C. Miller) Proceedings. Southern Management Association, New Orleans, LA, November, 1984. This was also presented.

 

Perceived environmental uncertainty: An instrument with improved reliability. Proceedings. Midwest Academy of Management, Kalamazoo, MI, April, 1983. This was also presented.

 

The influence of the number of, and uncertainty of, factors in decision making. Proceedings. Midwest Academy of Management, Columbus, OH, March, 1982. This was also presented.

 

PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

 

Session chair; International Conference of the Strategic Leadership Forum.  Topic:  Transforming the bottom line:  Managing performance with real numbers, 1997.

 

Presentation; Diversity, performance, and satisfaction in student group projects: An empirical study (with T. Schoenecker & K. Martell). Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division, 1996.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: The new AACSB accreditation standards: A prospect of tiering, 1995.

 

Discussant; Midwest Division of the Academy of Management Convention. Session topic: Strategic choice and decision making, 1995.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: Assessing the application and impact of management education and training instruments on strategies, 1994.

 

Presentation; Overall organizational communication and trust: A preliminary investigation. Convention of The Institute for Behavioral and Applied Management, 1993.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: Experience with transferring west European and American business theories and teaching methods to Europe's post Socialist economies, 1993.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: Success factors in action learning programs, 1992.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: Enhancing strategic vision in the Strategic Management Course, 1990.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: The generalist and the teaching of problem solving abilities, 1989.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: Creative approaches to enhancing management education, 1987.

 

Invited Presentation; Helping orientations and helping behavior (with C. Miller), symposium titled Pro-social and organizational citizenship behavior. Academy of Management Convention, Organization Behavior Division, 1986.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Management Education and Development Division. Session topic: Developing new skills in management education and development, 1986.

 

Presentation; Measuring helping orientations: Attitudes, which underlay supervisor-subordinate interactions (with C. Miller). Convention of Central Missouri Chapter of American Society for Training and Development, 1985.

 

Presentation; Helping orientations: Development of a new scale and its validity (with S. Frankel & C. Miller). Academy of Management, Organization Behavior Division, 1985.

 

Session chair and discussant; Midwest American Institute for Decision Sciences Convention. Session topic: Organizational reward systems, 1984.

 

Presentation; Applying major aspects of Japanese management to U.S. organizations (with L. Bishop). Midwest Division of the Academy of Management, 1984.

 

Presentation; Helping orientations: Scale development to detect stylistic approaches (with S. Frankel). Midwest Division of the Academy of Management, 1984.

 

Session chair and discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Organization Theory Division. Session topic: Organization adaptation and effectiveness, 1983.

 

Discussant; Academy of Management Convention, Organization Theory Division. Session topic: New perspectives on organizational effectiveness, 1982.

 

Discussant; Southern Management Association Convention. Session topic: Organization structure and unit performance, 1982.

 

Presentation; Regulatory influences on internal organizational control responses (with M. Lippitt). Academy of Management Convention, Social Issues Division, 1981.

 

Presentation; A reappraisal of span of control (with M. Lippitt). Midwest Business Administration Association Convention, 1980.

 

BOOKS, CHAPTERS, CASES

 

P. Lewis, S. Goodman, P. Fandt and J. Michlitsch, Management:  Challenges for Tomorrow’s Leaders, 5th. ed, Thomson South-western, 2007.

 

Revised chapters ten through fifteen of Management:  Challenges for tomorrow’s leaders, 4th. ed, by Pamela Lewis, Stephen Goodman, and Patricia Fandt.  Thomson South-western, 2004. 

 

Instructor’s manual for Management:  Challenges for tomorrow’s leaders, 4th. ed, by Pamela Lewis, Stephen Goodman, and Patricia Fandt.  Thomson South-western, 2004.

     

Test bank for Management:  Challenges for tomorrow’s leaders, 4th. ed, by Pamela Lewis, Stephen Goodman, and Patricia Fandt.  Thomson South-western, 2004. 

 

Test bank for Entrepreneurship:  A process approach, by Robert Baron and Scott Shane.  Thomson South-western, 2004.

 

Internet test bank for Entrepreneurship:  A process approach, by Robert Baron and Scott Shane.  Thomson South-western, 2004. 

 

Teaching notes published with Strategic Management:  Concepts and Cases, Jeffrey S. Harrison, New York: John Wiley & Sonc, Inc., 2003.

·        AOL Time Warner Merger

·        CNET Networks, Inc.

·        Competition in the Global Wine Industry:  A U.S. Perspective

·        The Department of Justice Versus Microsoft

·        Drkoop.com

·        Gannett Company, Inc.

·        General Motors Corporation:  Tooling Up and Scaling Back to Compete Globally

·        Robin Hood

·        The Scaffold Plank Incident

·        Seven-Eleven Japan:  Managing a Networked Organization

 

Video Guide to Accompany Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization by Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson, 2nd ed.  Minneapolis: West Publishing Company, 1997.

 

Video Guide to Accompany Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization by Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson.  Minneapolis: West Publishing Company, 1995.

 

Student's Resource Manual to Accompany Managing by Dunham and Pierce. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman and Company, 1990. (with S. Safranski & M. Shaner). This book is an essentials version of the one below.

 

Student Resource Manual to Accompany Management by Dunham and Pierce. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman and Company, 1989. (with S. Safranski & M. Shaner).

 

Instructor's Manual to Accompany Management for Productivity. 2nd. ed. by J. Schermerhorn. NY: John Wiley & Son, 1986.

 

Classroom Exercises and Demonstrations in Management: A Resource Book for Instructors of Management. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. (with M. Lippitt & K. Hawley).

 

SELECTED SERVICE/ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES

 

Profession:

 

Strategic Leadership Forum (formerly The Planning Forum), St. Louis Chapter: President (1996-2000; 1989-1991), Vice President, Programs (1986‑1988), Board of Directors (1985-2000).

 

Midwest Division of the Academy of Management: Program Evaluation Committee (1984‑1985).

 

Academy of Management: Committee on Outstanding Contributions to Organization and Management Theory (1980‑1982).

 

      Referee:

 

      Academy of Management:

 

            Management Education and Development Division; 1986‑1999.

 

            Business Policy Division; 1993, 1994, 1999-2005.

 

            Organization Theory Division; 1982, 1983.

 

      Administrative Science Quarterly, invited reviewer, 1986.   

 

      Midwest American Institute for Decision Sciences; 1984.

 

      Midwest Division of the Academy of Management; 1982‑1984, 1993‑1999, 2002-present.

 

      Southern Management Association; 1984, 1994.

 

      Strategy and Leadership, ad hoc reviewer; 1999-2000.

 

      United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship; 2005.

 

University

 

Honorary Degree & Distinguished Service Awards, 2003-present.

 

Chancellor’s Scholar Advisor, 2003-present.

 

Educational Research & Policy Committee, 2002.

 

Program Review Committee to review request for new program, MS in Computer Science:  Chair, 1999-00.

 

Graduate Programs Committee:  1999-00.

 

Program Review Committee for Political Science Program:  Chair, 1997-98.

 

Committee for Higher Administrator Performance Appraisal (CHAPA): Chair (1994‑1995), member (1991‑1994 ).

 

Committee on Assessment: (1992‑1995).

 

Academic Standards and Policy Committee: (1993‑1995); re‑wrote undergraduate admission standards.

 

Education and Research Policy Committee: (1992‑1993).

 

Presidential Scholar Advisor: (1990‑1991).

 

Program Committee of the Graduate Council: reviewed graduate program in Biology (1988‑1989).

 

Graduate Course Review Committee: Chair (1985‑1986), member (1984‑1985).

 

Program Review Committee for Health Education Program: Chair (1983).

 

Various other committees: (1980‑1984).

 

School of Business

 

Internal Analysis for Strategic Plan Task Force, 2003, Chair

 

Task Force for Orientation for Part-time Faculty, 2003-present, Chair.

 

Mentor Committee, 2003-2004.

 

Committee to Coordinate Strategy Courses with Other Core:  (1996-2001).

 

MBA Off Campus Advisor: (1992‑1995).

 

MBA Implementation Committee: (1994).

 

MBA 534 Course Committee: (1994‑1996).

 

Committee on Undergraduate Excellence: (1989‑1991).

 

Research and Projects: Secretary (1988‑1990).

 

Academic Policy Committee: member (1983‑1988).

 

MBA Case Guidelines Committee: Chair (1986).

 

Various other committees: (1983‑1985).

 

Department of Management

 

Personnel Committee: (1996-2000, Chair 1989-1992, 2001-2002).

 

Coordinator of strategy courses: (1995-2005).

 

Curriculum Task Force: (1989).

 

Departmental Direction Task Force: (1989).

 

Peer Review Committee: (1986‑1988, 1989‑1991), Chair (1993‑2002).

 

Various other committees: (1980‑1985).

 

Volunteer Organizations

 

American Parkinson's Disease Association, St. Louis Chapter: First Vice President (1995‑1996), Second Vice President (1994), Executive Committee (1993-1996), Chair Public Relations Committee (1995), Chair, Fund raising Committee, (1996).

 

Phi Kappa Phi (honor society), SIUE Chapter: President (1987‑1988), Secretary/Treasurer (1986‑1987), Executive Board (1984‑1989), Public Relations Officer (1989‑1990), chair of various committees.

 

Other Service

 

Human Resources Management Association, St. Louis, MO.  Invited to present workshop as part of November 17, 1999 monthly speaker meeting.  Topic:  Communication:  Listening Skills.

 

Licensed Facilitator of Covey's Seven Habits Training: (1995-present).  Conducted program twice for faculty/staff, twice for students during Business Hour, School of Business.  Will continue.

 

Family Business Forum: (1994), participated in two Family Business Forums at request of Richard Luma, Director, Office of Management Studies.

 

Advisor to SIUE administrators: Colby Ardis, Dean of Engineering ‑ strategic planning (1991); Mark Rossow, Chair, Civil Engineering ‑ goal setting (1992).

 

Presented Supervisor's Workshop to University administrators. Topic: Humanizing the Work Environment. (1988), requested by University Personnel Services. Essentially supervisory/management training.

 

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE - CONSULTING

 

Strategic Planning and Strategy Determination

 

Assisting William Finnie, Director of Business Consulting Group, Grace & Co., with re-writing his strategy book for the practitioner, participating with various consulting projects – while on sabbatical, Fall, 1999.

 

Electronics & Space Corporation, (Defense contractor entering commercial markets), 1995-1996.

 

Southwest Mobile Systems, (Defense contractor entering commercial markets), 1995.

 

Hilton Systems, Inc., (Defense contractor entering commercial markets), 1994.

 

Conference on Education, Missouri, comprehensive strategic planning process, 1991-1992.

 

Cope Plastics Company, strategic planning, 1989.

 

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Department of Family Practice, strategic planning, 1988.

 

Yonaka Jewelry, management, marketing strategy, 1988.

 

Monsanto Chemical Company, Planning Department; internal consultant, strategy and competitor analysis, 1987.

 

Consolidated Aluminum Company, strategic planning and productivity improvement, 1985.

 

Small Business Administration, Vice President SCORE/ACE Black Hills SD Chapter, volunteer counselor for SBA clients, consulting focused on overall business planning, 1973-1976.

 

Strategic Management Implementation, Related Consulting

 

Home Nursery, improving relationships, communication between management and employees, 1999.

 

Clark Oil & Refining Co., corporate‑wide intervention to improve overall management through involvement/team work, 1991-1994.

 

TIP of Illinois Health Services, Inc., team building for implementing strategy and goals, 1989.

 

Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, State of Illinois, developing and managing a task force, 1988.

 

Northland Financial Corporation, team focus to improve management and achieve goals, 1988.

 

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, design/interpretation of evaluation of participative management program, 1986.

 

A.O. Smith Automotive Products Company, plant-wide intervention to improve overall management through employee involvement/team work approach, 1985-1988.

 

U.S. Army Audit Agency, St. Louis Office, teamwork to improve overall management, 1985.

 

Other interventions, seminars, various companies and groups, topics of communication, motivation, basic management/supervisory training, 1978-1992.

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

 

Academy of Management                                                        

Midwest Academy of Management

United States Association Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Phi Kappa Phi (National Honor Society)                                  

Beta Gamma Sigma (National Honor Society in Business).

 

RECOGNITIONS/AWARDS

 

SIUE; Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Spring, 2001.

 

“Special long-term constancy, devotion, and interest in developing your students,” International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition, 2003.

 

Second-place award from the Mid-Continent East AACSB for Mgmt. 595- Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the World of Enron, Andersen & WorldCom.  Developed with M. Segal and J. Wilkerson, 2004. 

 

Academy of Management, Management Education and Development Division; Outstanding Reviewer Service Award, 1995.

 

Strategic Leadership Forum; appreciation award for service as president, St. Louis Chapter, 1990 and 1991.