Research Network 

 

Gary Burns   Assistant Professor, Wright State University Dr. Burns is the lead author on a SIOP grant with Drs. Kotrba and Smerek for their proposal to investigate how leader - culture fit relates to managerial effectiveness.  His research also examines the impact of individual differences in behavior and job performance and on methods of measuring and predicting such differences. Other projects examine personality measurement, social-cognitive determinants of behavior, applicant distortion, refinement and development of performance management systems, and the fairness of selection systems. more>> 

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Jessie Casida   Assistant Professor, Wayne State University  Dr. Casida has completed research on linking culture and leadership in the health care sector using the Denison Organizational Culture Survey (Casida & Pinto-Zipp, 2008), and published a validation paper of the DOCS as a measurement tool (Casida, 2008).  His program of research aims to explore and understand the interplay of patient responses to technological devices, family caregivers roles/issues, healthcare system (e.g., nursing staff, leadership, organizational culture) variables, and outcomes in cardiac surgery and mechanical circulatory support programs. more>>

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Mike Gillespie  Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University  Mike is a faculty member in the College of Education and Human Development and a Faculty Affiliate of the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program. Some of his research areas are: (1) organizational culture and effectiveness, drawing from his prior experience working at Denison Consulting (Gillespie, et al., 2007), (2) measuring college student learning and performance, with recent emphasis on critical thinking and values, and (3) the measurement of job attitudes.  more>>

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Sandy Lim   Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore  Dr. Lim received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and has worked with Denison Consulting to examine gender, age, and leadership issues (Kotrba, Lim, & Denison, 2007). Her other research interest includes prosocial and antisocial behaviors at work (e.g., incivility, social support).  She has been published in leading management/psychology journals (e.g., Journal of Applied Psychology) and presented at major conferences such as the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management and SIOP.

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Kevin Love Professor, Central Michigan University  Dr. Love’s applied research has demonstrated the utility of using the Denison Organizational Culture Survey as the basis for large scale change programming, strategic plan development, and organization restructuring. Much of his work has involved fast-paced organizational settings such as law enforcement (Love, 2008), Division I intercollegiate athletics, and health care. For over thirty years Dr. Love has specialized in the innovative HR systems for high risk occupations such as undercover policing and fire fighting. more>>

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Aaron Schmidt Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota  Dr. Schmidt has worked with Denison Consulting to examine how culture traits combine to predict organizational performance (Schmidt, Gillespie, Kotrba, Ritchie & Denison, 2009). His other research interests are employee motivation and self-regulation, including goal prioritization and time allocation, responses to actual and anticipated success, and applications of self-regulatory theory to individual and team training.  He has published widely, including in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. more>>

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Cengiz Yilmaz Professor of Marketing, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul  Dr. Yilmaz obtained his Ph.D. in marketing from Texas Tech University in 1999 and his research interests focus on distribution channels and relationship marketing, emerging technologies and their impacts on marketing applications, and strategic issues concerning intra- and inter-firm aspects in marketing systems and their links with business performance. His most recent works focus on organizational culture and marketing effectiveness along with the balanced culture hypothesis (Yilmaz & Ergun, 2008).

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Amy Young Research Faculty, The University of Michigan Amy is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Michigan’s psychology department in 1998, and since then has conducted longitudinal research on women’s psychological development across the lifespan. Her current research interests include leadership development among women, stereotypes of female and male leaders, and the implications of generational differences in the workplace. She collaborates with Denison researchers to examine gender and leadership issues in the workplace. more>>

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