Contact
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Email
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Primary Office
- C140 Pappajohn Business Building (PBB)
- (319) 335-0924
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Department
Websites
Positions
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Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship
Tippie College of Business
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Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program in Business, Undergraduate Program
Tippie College of Business
Education
- PhD in Psychology, Michigan State University, 1999
- MA in Psychology, Michigan State University, 1996
- BS in Psychology, University of Maryland, 1993
Areas of Interest
- e-Learning
- Management & leadership development
- Motivation and self-regulation
- Training design and evaluation
Selected Awards & Honors
- Fellow, American Psychological Association, 2017
- Best Paper, Human Relations, 2016
- Fellow, Association of Psychological Science, 2016
- Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2015
- Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Commission and Seoul National University, 2015
- Innovative Teaching Award, HR Division of the Academy of Management, 2014
Selected Publications
- , & (In Press). Trading Off Learning and Performance: Exploration and Exploitation at Work. Human Resource Management Review. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2018.06.001.
- , , & (2017). Balancing Flexibility and Inventory in Workforce Planning with Learning. International Journal of Production Economics 183 (Part A) 194-207. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.10.026.
- (2017). Handbook of Workplace Training and Employee Development. Brown, K. G. (Eds.) Cambridge University Press.
- & (2017). Management education in business schools. In The Oxford Handbook of Management. pp. 437-460. Oxford University Press.
- , , , & (2016). Exploring the neuropsychological antecedents of transformational leadership: The role of executive function. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 2 (4) 325-343. DOI: DOI: 10.1007/s40750-016-0051-y.
- , & (2016). Learner control and e-learning: Taking stock and moving forward. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 3 267-291.
- & (2016). The medium is the message: On the emergence of autonomous learning, MOOCs, and technology-enabled active learning. In Autonomous Learning in the Workplace. pp. 237-260).. Taylor & Francis, SIOP Frontiers Series.
- (2016). Training and Development. (Vols. Management). Oxford Bibliographies Online.
- , & (2016). Unfreezing change as three steps: Rethinking the foundation of change management. Human Relations 69 33-60.
- & (2014). Human Resource Management: Linking Strategy to Practice. (3rd) Wiley & Sons.
Selected Presentations
- (2017, August) Confessions of an award-winning teacher”. Keynote/Plenary Address presented at Academy of Management Teaching and Learning Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
- (2016, January) Influence: Mastering Life's Most Powerful Skill. Course for The Great Courses
Selected Grants & Contracts
- Thomas, Barrett W (Principal Investigator), Brown, Kenneth G (Co-Principal) Grant Research, Applied. Collaborative Research: Solving Large-Scale, High-Fidelity Workforce Planning Models That Recognize the Potential of Human Learning. Sponsored by National Science Foundation. Funded. July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2016.
Professional Service
- Iowa City Community School District Foundation, Board Membership, Nonprofit.
Editorial & Review Activities
- Academy of Management Learning & Education, Editorial Board Member.
- Journal of Applied Psychology, Advisory/Consulting Editor.