W. T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations

Faculty & Staff

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Todd J. Maurer is the Director of the Beebe Institute

Todd J. Maurer

Todd J. Maurer received his B.S. from University of Pittsburg, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Akron.

Professor Maurer has conducted applied research or consulted on issues including employee and leader development, performance appraisal and feedback, aging workers, human resource testing and selection, job analysis, and legal concerns. Research that he has conducted has been supported by private organizations, NSF, and NIH. In 2002 he won the Sidney Fine Award for Research on Analytic Strategies to Study Jobs from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and in 2003 he was elected to Fellow of SIOP and of the American Psychological Association.

According to a survey published in 2000, Maurer is among the most productive researchers published in premier journals of that field in the 1990s. His work has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Development, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, Journal of Business and Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has served on the editorial boards of leading applied psychology and management journals. 

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Kay A. Bunch

Kay J. Bunch earned a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development from Georgia State University. She also earned a BA and MA in History and a MS in Management from Georgia State.

Her areas of interest include employee selection, training and development, leadership perceptions, empowerment and gender differences in management.

 

 

 

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Bruce E. Kaufman

Bruce E. Kaufman
Professor of Economics
Senior Associate, Beebe Institute
Kaufman has published numerous scholarly articles and fourteen books on human resource, industrial relations, and labor economics topics. His two most recent books are Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry (nominated for "Best Book in Labor Studies" prize) and Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Practices and Programs in Early American Industry. Professor Kaufman is past-director of the Beebe Institute and past-president of the University Council of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Programs.

 

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Lisa Lambert

Lisa Schurer Lambert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

 Email: lisalambert@gsu.edu
 Phone: 404-413-7536
 Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina
 M.M., Northwestern University
 B.S., Northwestern University 

Specializations: Psychological Contracts and
 Employment Relationships at the Individual, Group
 and Population Level; Social Comparison Processes;
 Social Exchange; Organizational Justice; Research
 Methods

 

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Lucy McClurg

Lucy McClurg received her Ph.D in Industrial Relations (1989) from Georgia State University. She is a member of the Academy of Management, Southern Mangement Association, IRRA and SHRM Atlanta.

She has published numerous research articles in HR field, including Journal of Applied Psychology and Academy of Management Review. She teaches graduate and undergraduate HR courses. Dr. McClurg serves as Academic Advisor for the Beebe Institute MS/MBA program and Faculty Advisor for the GSU SHRM student chapter.

 

 

 

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Edward W. Miles

Edward W. Miles has authored or co-authored 20 refereed articles in scholarly management journals. These include publications in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. He was co-author of a research paper that received the Outstanding Overall Paper Award for the 1999 Southern Management Association Conference.

His fields of specialization include organizational behavior and negotiation. He regularly teaches MBA courses in both topics at Georgia State University and lectures on these topics at German colleges in Mannheim, Mosbach, and Stuttgart. His training and consulting work is in the area of negotiation. He has done work for Andersen Consulting, Bell South, and the United States Centers for Disease Control.

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Hyeon Jeong Park

Hyeon Jeong Park received her B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Her areas of interest include strategic human resource management and international human resource management.

 

 

 

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Steven Whiting

Bennett J. Tepper, Ph.D.
Professor
Email:mgtbjt@langate.gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7550
Education: Ph.D., University of Miami
M.S., University of Miami
B.S., Ohio State University

Specializations: Leadership; Ethics; Health and well-being

 

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