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About the Author| FRED LUTHANS is the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He received his B.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and did some postdoctoral work at Columbia University. While serving
in the armed forces, he taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has been at the University of Nebraska since 1967, his entire academic career, and won the distinguished teaching award in 1986 and the excellence in graduate education award in
2000. A prolific writer, he has published a number of major books and about 150 articles in applied and academic journals. His book, Organizational Behavior Modification, coauthored with Robert Kreitner, won the American Society of Personnel Administration award for the outstanding contribution to human resource management, and a more recent book titled Real Managers is the result of a four-year research study that observed managers in their natural settings. International Management, coauthored with Richard Hodgetts and also published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill, is now in its fifth edition. His articles are widely reprinted and have brought him the American Society of Hospital Administration award. The co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Business, Professor Luthans is also the editor for Organizational Dynamics and is on the editorial board of several other journals. He has been very active in the Academy of Management over the years and was elected a Fellow in 1981. He is a former president of the Midwest Region. He was vice president, program chair of the National Academy meet-ing in Boston in 1984, and in 1986 was elected president. In 1997, Professor Luthans received the Academy of Management Distinguished Educator Award. In 2000 he became an inaugural member of the Academy’s Hall of Fame for being one of the “Top
Five” all-time published authors in the prestigious Academy Journals. Also active in the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), he was elected a Fellow in 1987. Professor Luthans has a very extensive research program at the University of Nebraska. Most recently, his studies with Alex Stajkovic on behavioral management (published in the October 1997 and June 2001 issues of the Academy of Management Journal) and self-efficacy (published in Vol. 124, 1998 of Psychological Bulletin) utilized meta-analysis techniques for theory building and application for performance improvement. He has been a visiting
scholar at a number of universities in the United States and has lectured at universities and conducted workshops for managers in many countries around the world. Most recently, he has been actively involved in the former East Germany and Russia and in a
U.S. A.I.D. program conducted in Albania and Macedonia. In addition, he has been on the Executive Committee of the annual Pan Pacific Conference since its beginning in 1984 and in 1995 was elected a Fellow. This international research and experience is
reflected in his approach to the field of organizational behavior. He served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of Administrative Research and currently on Senior Technologies, Inc. In addition, he is an active consultant and trainer to both private-(
such as Wal-Mart and Ameritas Life Insurance, Inc.) and public-sector (such as the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association) organizations. Since 1998 he has been a Senior Research Scientist with the Gallup Organization. He is an avid golfer and University of Nebraska sports fan. He and his wife Kay, of 38 years, have four grown children and so far four granddaughters. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education