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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 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 has published numerous scholarly articles and fourteen books on human resource, industrial relations, and labor economics topics. His two most recent books are The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations (2004) and Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship (2004). His next book, Managing the Human Factor: The Birth and Development of Personnel and Industrial Relations Programs in American Industry, is in progress and will appear in 2007. 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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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 publications 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 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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Ellwood F. Oakley, III has been promoted to Associate Professor of Legal Studies in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Professor Oakley was educated at Auburn University (B.S.), Emory University (M.A.) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), where he was a staff editor of The Tax Lawyer. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma.

He served in the U.S. Navy as the legal and personnel officer of a cruiser during a Vietnam tour. He was a partner in the Allanta law firm of Dodd, Connell & Hughes from 1974 to 1988, where his practice centered on business and health care litigation.

Professor Oakley has taught in the MBA program at Georgia State University since 1988, including courses in business law, health law, negotiations, insurance law, and the legal and ethical environment of business. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business in 1993.

Professor Oakley's research interests are currently focused on increased use of alternative dispute resolution in business and applied business ethics. His works have been published in the Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Ethics, South Carolina Law Review, and the Journal of Insurance Regulations.

As an adjunct to his faculty position, Mr. Oakley currently serves as a Senior Arbitrator on panels of the National Association of Securities Dealers and as an Administrative Hearing Officer for the State Health Planning Agency (Certificate of Need).

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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 W.  Whiting, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
 Email: whiting@gsu.edu
 Phone: 404-413-7573
 Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
 M.I.B., Pepperdine University
 B.A., Brigham Young University 

Specializations: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Performance Appraisals; Training Evaluation.