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Dear OB Listserv Members:

Please see below for an Assistant Professor opportunity at Wright State University beginning August 2016.  This is a new position being added to our department in HR or OB/OD.  Please apply if you are interested – or pass it along to students or colleagues who might want to apply.  We will be interviewing at the AOM meeting in Vancouver, B.C.

If you have any questions regarding the position or about Wright State University, please email me or call me (contact information below) or email mib.wright.state@gmail.com.  Thanks in advance for spreading the word!

Take care,

Melissa

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Melissa L. Gruys, Ph.D., SPHR
Professor and Chair
Department of Management and International Business

Wright State University

Rike Hall 250

3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435-0001
937-775-2375
fax  937-775-3546
melissa.gruys@wright.edu
www.wright.edu/~melissa.gruys

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make

a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can

make which over time add up to the big differences."

                                                                ~ Marian Wright Edelman
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The Department of Management and International Business in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, seeks to hire an Assistant Professor of Management to begin in August 2016.  Salary and benefits for this tenure-track position are highly competitive.

Responsibilities include scholarly activity resulting in refereed journal publications, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in Management and International Business, and University service. The main area of emphasis will be in Human Resource Management or Organizational Behavior/Organizational Development. Expertise/training and ability to teach in other related areas within the department, such as leadership, ethics, organizational change, and international management, will be considered an asset. This position carries a five (3 hour) course teaching load (3 classes in Fall semester and 2 classes in Spring semester or vice versa).

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates will have an earned Ph.D. in management from an AACSB accredited institution received by hire date of August 1, 2016. Candidates must have the potential for excellence in teaching at the graduate and/or undergraduate levels.

Preferred Qualifications

The preferred candidate will have prior college-level teaching experience with strong teaching evaluations – particularly in HR-related or OB/OD-related courses and must have strong oral communication skills, a record of HR or OB/OD related research and scholarly publication in refereed academic journals, the potential for high quality department, university and/or community service, and a commitment to collegial academic interaction with a focus on student learning.

Wright State University (www.wright.edu)

Wright State University is one of 13 state universities in Ohio and serves approximately 18,000 students, offering more than 100 undergraduate and 118 Ph.D., graduate, and professional degree programs (see fact sheet at http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/for-the-media/factsheets/).  On many different fronts, Wright State University has gained national and international recognition (https://www.wright.edu/about/foundational-principles/national-recognition). New faculty will find opportunities to collaborate with colleagues from many departments across the university. The Dayton, Ohio, region is also home to many successful business organizations, especially in areas of defense, healthcare, and science. The region has been known for an entrepreneurial spirit and is the birthplace of many significant inventions and innovations (e.g. birthplace of aviation).

The Raj Soin College of Business (https://business.wright.edu) is one of eight colleges within the University. It is AACSB accredited and enrolls approximately 1,200 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students, offering a comprehensive business program to a diverse student body.

The Department of Management and International Business (http://business.wright.edu/academics/undergraduate/management-and-international-business/program-overview) offers majors in Management, Human Resource Management, and International Business, as well as minors in Management, International Business, and International Trade.

The campus is located in a beautiful 557-acre wooded setting. Dayton is a very livable, affordable cost of living city with numerous arts and cultural opportunities (e.g., http://www.dayton.com and www.cultureworks.org).

Application Procedure:

In order to be considered for an interview at the AOM meeting, please submit a letter of interest and C.V. via email to mib.wright.state@gmail.com by Friday, July 24. Formal application materials should be submitted electronically via Wright State University's online website at https://jobs.wright.edu/postings/9254

(from this page, click on "Apply for this job" at the top of the page).  Required materials are:

1) Cover letter

2) Curriculum vitae

3) Contact information at least three references who are willing to provide letters of recommendation later in the search process

4) Teaching portfolio or other evidence of teaching effectiveness (including a summary of student teaching evaluations)

5) An example of published writing

PLEASE NOTE: Letters of recommendation are not required at this time. The search committee will solicit letters at a later stage in the search process.

Direct any questions you may have to mib.wright.state@gmail.com.