Management, 15th Edition

Dr. John R. Schermerhorn, Jr., is the Charles G. O’Bleness Professor of Management Emeritus in the College of Business at Ohio University, where he teaches graduate courses in management and organizational behavior. Dr. Schermerhorn earned a PhD in organizational behavior from Northwestern University, an MBA (with distinction) in management and international business from New York University, and a BS in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He previously taught at Tulane University, the University of Vermont, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he also served as head of the Department of Management and associate dean of the College of Business Administration.

International experience adds a unique global dimension to Dr. Schermerhorn’s teaching and writing. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Pécs in Hungary. He was a visiting professor of management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on-site coordinator of the Ohio University MBA and Executive MBA programs in Malaysia, and Kohei Miura visiting professor at Chubu University in Japan. He has served as adjunct professor at the National University of Ireland at Galway and advisor to the Lao-American College in Vientiane, Laos. He presently teaches an MBA course at Università Politecnica Delle Marche in Ancona, Italy, and PhD seminars in the Knowledge and Innovation Management doctoral program at Bangkok University, Thailand. At Ohio University he has twice been Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

A member of the Academy of Management, Dr. Schermerhorn was chairperson of the Management Education and Development Division. Management educators and students alike know him as author of Exploring Management 4e (Wiley, 2014), Management 12e (Wiley, 2013), and co-author of Organizational Behavior 13e (Wiley, 2014). Dr. Schermerhorn has also published numerous articles, including ones in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Organizational Dynamics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Development, and the Journal of Management Education.

Ohio University named Dr. Schermerhorn a University Professor, the university’s highest campus-wide honor for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He is a popular guest speaker at colleges and universities. He is available for student lectures and classroom visits, as well as for faculty workshops on scholarly manuscript development, textbook writing, high engagement teaching, and instructional and curriculum innovations.

Dr. Daniel G. Bachrach (Dan) is the Robert C. and Rosa P. Morrow Faculty Excellence Fellow and Professor of Management in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in management. Dr. Bachrach earned a PhD in organizational behavior and human resource management—with a minor emphasis in strategic management—from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, an MS in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and a BA in psychology from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

A member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dr. Bachrach serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Behavioral Operations Management: Social and Psychological Dynamics in Production and Service Settings (Oxford University Press, 2014), co-author of Transformative Selling: Becoming a Resource Manager and a Knowledge Broker (Axcess Capon, 2014), and senior co-author of 10 Don’ts on your Digital Devices: Th e Non-Techie’s Survival Guide to Digital Security and Privacy (Apress, 2014). Dr. Bachrach also has published extensively in a number of academic journals including Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.