Division of Business and Management 2000-01

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT

Kimbrough Ferrell

Attended:

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Karen Desotelle

• SHC technology workshops:  Excel, Eudora, File Management, PowerPoint, Macros in Word, FrontPage

Reviewed two textbooks for South-Western Thomson Learning:

• Organizational Behavior, Nelson and Quick

• Management, Chuck Williams

Nanette Hagood

Member:

• Institute of Management Accountants, Mobile Chapter

Attended:

• SHC technology workshops

Initiated efforts with Kent State University to get academically reinstated and form a new dissertation committee in order to proceed with degree completion

Preparing for Certified Management Accountant exam (to be taken in summer 2001)

Incorporated more computer-based instruction and assignments in lectures

Andre Honoree

Publications:

• Teacher’s supplement test bank of essay, multiple choice, true/false, and matching questions and answers for Management:  Challenges in the 21^st Century by Lewis, Goodman, and Fandt;  Southwestern College Publishing

• Video series supplement for Management, 9^th Edition by Hellriegel, Jackson, and Slocum, Jr.; Southwestern College Publishing

• Student study guide for Management, 9^th Edition by Hellriegel, Jackson, and Slocum, Jr.; Southwestern College Publishing

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Faculty Friday presentation (with three other faculty members) on implementation of a merit pay system in a school like Spring Hill

Member: 

• National Academy of Management

• Southern Management Association

• Southwestern Academy of Management

• Mobile Botanical Gardens Board of Directors

• SHC Board of Trustees Student Life Committee

Attended:

• Jesuit Conference on Social Justice, University of Santa Clara

• Southwestern Federation of Administrative Disciplines conference meetings and seminars, New Orleans, Louisiana

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Karen Desotelle

• SHC technology workshop:  DocuLib/ERes presentation on “The Library Web-Publishing Solution”

• Multi-media presentation seminars by Daniel Communications and Atlantic Video Corporation

Received Graduate Summer Research Award:  will study pay-for-performance in the higher education environment

Assisted Mobile Botanical Gardens by having MBA Marketing Management class research the organization and provide an in-depth strategic marketing plan in both oral and written form to the Gardens’ board of directors

Subscribe to four national academic journal publications in related disciplines

Works in progress:

• Series of works regarding pay-for-performance and its impact in higher education

• Empirical paper concerning the relationship between specific domains and facets of the “Big Five” personality typology and the five impression management behaviors advanced by Jones and Pittman (1985)

• Results from above paper are being employed in another article that helps validate an instrument developed in conjunction with another author;  article is currently in the “revise and resubmit” stage

• Empirical paper employing the interactionist perspective regarding the relationship between the “Big Five” personality domains and facets and the five impression management behaviors in situations where the status and size of audience variables are manipulated

Michael Johnson

Attended:

• Heartland-Delta Conference on Jesuit Education, Creighton University

• SACS Accreditation Project meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

• SACS annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (including three workshops dealing with Institutional Effectiveness and Benchmarking)

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

• SHC sexual harassment seminar

Publications/reports:

• SHC Alumni Survey Report

• SHC CIRP Admissions Report

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Guest lecturer, BUS 530 Business Ethics

• SHC Opening Day, August 2000:  What Jesuit education means to me

Conducted SHC faculty salary study and SHC retention analysis

Worked with Chamber of Commerce to organize tour of Alabama State Docks

Expanded SHC Institutional Research homepage, including developing Strategic Performance Indicators and placing much of the Factbook on the web

Incorporated ERes in spring semester classes, especially Honors Economics

SACS visiting team, Colombia College:  chair of compliance team

Stewart Langdon [Division Chair]

Member:

• Industrial Relations Research Association

• Society of Human Resource Management

Publications:

• Paper on justice issues covered in Business and Management courses, emphasizing the social responsibility of business as well as the importance of ethical, fair, and just managerial behavior;  submitted to Dr. Larry Hall as a component of the current initiative on emphasizing justice in Jesuit education

• Article in SHC’s President’s Report and Honor Roll of Donors, 1999-2000”:  “Why I Teach,” emphasizing the importance of Business and Management programs in a Jesuit, liberal arts college or university

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Faculty Friday presentation (with three other faculty members) regarding implementation of a pay-for-performance system for faculty at colleges and universities

Attended:

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Karen Desotelle, “Context for Teaching and Learning in Jesuit Colleges and Universities”

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

• SHC technology workshops:  Computer Systems and Information Technology, ERes

• Multi-media presentation seminars by Daniel Communications and Atlantic Video Corporation

• Father Spitzer’s Suarez Lecture, his presentation to an accounting class, and his Faculty Forum

Submitted a list of corrections for the forthcoming ninth edition of the Production and Operations Management text by Norman Gaither and Greg Frazier

SHC representative to the Advisory Board of the Principals’ Academy which provides leadership and management training for grade school and high school principals in Mobile and Baldwin Counties as well as several other surrounding counties

Incorporated PowerPoint into lectures in several courses and posted course materials for all courses on networked common drive

Completed reviews of Annual Editions publications for Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, and Production and Operations Management

Worked with the Development Office to coordinate with Mr. Jim Turner of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on establishing the Heggemen Scholarship for Business and Management students;  proposed and received approval from the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors for the criteria and award procedures for the scholarship;  first scholarship of $1,000 will be awarded next year

Currently engaged in year-long program of Church Leadership Development at Christ United Methodist Church

Charmane May

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Presentation:  “Avoiding Wipeout on the Waves of Change,” Southeast Society for College and University Planning meeting

Attended:

• Faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

• Faculty development workshop:  Karen Desotelle

Virginia Ori

Took graduate course in Information Technology at the University of South Alabama

Attended:

• Faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

• Faculty development workshop:  Karen Desotelle

Incorporated some techniques learned in graduate course and in faculty development workshop into classes

Completed faculty web site and will link it to SHC’s web site over the summer

Glenda Partridge

Attended:

• Accounting and Auditing Update:  FASB and SAS Review

• 2000 Tax Update

• Special Topics in Small Business Engagements

• Governmental Accounting and Auditing Forum

• Mobile Chapter of Alabama Society of CPAs annual meeting

Member:

• Mobile Chapter of Alabama Society of CPAs:  Scholarship competition contact person for University of South Alabama and University of Mobile

• Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

• American Accounting Association

Incorporated PowerPoint into some lectures

Ralph Sandler

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Faculty Friday presentation (with three other faculty members) on merit pay

Attended:

• American Economic Association meeting, New Orleans

• Discussant at one session

• SHC Karen Desotelle workshop:  “The Context for Teaching and Learning in Jesuit Colleges and Universities”

• SHC two-day workshop:  “Creating Web Pages for Teaching”

Volunteered for:

• WHIL fund-raising drive

Works in progress:

• Work on “Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry” (with colleagues at Florida State)

• Possible research with Andy Sharp on Business Valuation

• Paper for the Journal of Educational Finance on forecasting exchange rates

Cort Schlichting

Member:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Attended:

• Association for Computing Machinery regional meeting, Athens, Georgia

Developed new MBA course on e-commerce

Consulted with various firms in the Mobile area

Serve on Scholarship Committee for the Greek Orthodox Church

Sang with Musica Sacra

Works in progress:

• Learning Dreamweaver

• Furthering understanding of ACCESS

• Research on instructional technology levels of current students, for paper with Dr. Charmane May

Andrew Sharp

Awarded sabbatical for Fall 2001

Publications:

• “St. Matthew from an Accounting Perspective,” accepted for publication in The Accounting Historians Notebook  (refereed)

• “The Marriage Tax:  I Do Means For Worse Sometimes,” accepted for publication in National Public Accountant (refereed)

• “Hedging Fuel Costs in the Airline Industry,” accepted for publication in Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly  (refereed)

Member:

• Board of Friends of SHC Library:  Treasurer

• Board of Mobile Botanical Gardens:  Treasurer;  Volunteer for MarketPlace plant sales

• Alabama Society of CPAs

• Mobile Chapter of Alabama Society of CPAs

• North Carolina Association of CPAs

• American Accounting Association

• Academy of Accounting Historians

• Institute of Management Accountants

• American Institute of CPAs

Nominated by the Mobile Chapter of the Alabama Society of CPAs for Lifetime Achievement in Accounting Education Award

Attended:   

• “Accounting and Auditing Update:  FASB and SAS Review,” Mobile, Alabama

•  “Small Business Engagements,” Mobile, Alabama

• “Tax Deferred Exchanges Under Section 1031,” Mobile, Alabama

• “Accountancy Weekend,” Oxford, Mississippi

• SHC technology workshop:  ERes,

• Multi-media presentation seminars by Daniel Communications and Atlantic Video Corporation

• MAS 90 Software presentation, TCL

Solo judge for Lebanese-American Club scholarship competition

Works in progress:

• “Our Crazy Accounting Language,” submitted to CSB News

• “Chads in Need of Repair,” submitted to The Accounting Historians Notebook

• “Adding a Pinch of Humor to the Accounting Recipe,” submitted to The Teaching Professor

• “The M&O Railroad,” in progress with Gary Previts

• “Bartering in Coffeeville:  The Accounts Receivable Records for an Early Twentieth Century Physician,” in progress

• “The Impact of SFAS 133 on the U.S. Passenger Airlines,” in progress

• “Piercing the Boardroom Veil,” in progress with Tricia Southall

• “Taxing Free Travel Awards: A Potential Nightmare for the Airlines,” in progress