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Dr. Richard H.G. Field     

Professor of Strategic Management and Organization

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toronto (1981); majored in Organizational Behaviour, with Personnel and Statistics as supporting fields. Thesis "A Test of the Vroom-Yetton Contingency Model of Leadership Behavior".

Master of Business Administration, McMaster University (1976); majored in Quantitative Methods. 

Bachelor of Mathematics from the Co-op program of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo (1973); specialized in statistics and computer science. 

High School at West Hill Collegiate Institute in Scarborough (Toronto) Ontario (1969).

Organizational Experience

• September 2001 to August 2002 Visiting Professor, Claremont Graduate University School of Information Science
• Associate Dean (Administration) of the Faculty of Business, July 1997-November 2000
• 1992  Full Professor, Faculty of Business, University of Alberta
• 1985-1992  Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, University of Alberta
• 1984 TravelSpace Inc., Toronto, Canada. Retail travel sales in a small family business.
• 1980-1983 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business, Simon Fraser University
• October to December 1982 Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia
• 1979 Lecturer, Faculty of Business, McMaster University
• 1973/74 Computer Programmer in COBOL, Canada Permanent Trust Company
• 1970/73 Computer operator, COBOL programmer, and customer support in five co-op work terms of four months each (Ontario Department of Education, Electrohome Ltd.)

Refereed Article Publications

1. (2006) “Discontinuous Change in University Web Sites: The Relative Importance of Reasons for Change”. Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations, Volume 1, pp. 43-57. With Terry Ryan and Lorne Olfman. 
2. (2003) "The Evolution of U.S. Government State Home Pages From 1997 To 2002". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 59, pp. 403-430. With Terry Ryan and Lorne Olfman. [Selected Figures and Tables]
3. (2001) "The Behavioral Tourist: Reflections on a Journey to the Land of IS", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 7 Article 21. [See article]
4. (1999) "Culture specific and cross culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed?" Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 10, pp. 219-256. With  Den Hartog, D.N., House, R. J., Hanges, P.J., Ruiz-Quintanilla, S. A., Dorfman, P.W.,. et al. (all co-authors of the GLOBE research project from 61 countries). [See article] [See tables]
5. (1998) "Testing the incremental validity of the Vroom-Jago versus Vroom-Yetton models of participation in decision making." With Julian P. Andrews. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol 11., pp. 251-261. [See article]
6. (1998) "Regrounding the concept of leadership." With Julian P. Andrews. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Vol. 19, pp. 128-136. [See article page 128; further pages]
7. (1993) "The case of the purloined journal article, or on being at the receiving end of academic dishonesty." Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 2(4), Dec. 1993, pp. 317-324. [See plagiarism article]
8. (1992) "The environmental crisis in the office: Why aren't managers managing the office environment?" With N. Phillips, Journal of General Management, 18(1), pp. 35-50. [See article]
9. (1990) "A test of the Vroom-Yetton model using manager and subordinate reports." With R.J. House, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 75, pp. 362-366.
10. (1990) "The effect of situation attributes on decision method choice in the Vroom-Jago model of participation in decision making." With P.C. Read and J.J. Louviere, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 1, pp. 165-176.
11. (1990) "Expert systems for management decision making: Two tests and prescriptions for future systems." With W.C. Wedley, Journal of Management Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 61-76.
12. (1990) "The evolution of leadership theory." With D.A. Van Seters, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 3, pp. 29-45. [See article]
13. (1989) "The self-fulfilling prophecy leader: Achieving the Metharme effect." Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 26, pp. 151-175.
14. (1989) "The MBA program: Views from a student and a professor." With D.A. Van Seters, Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, Vol. 13, pp. 59-71.
15. (1989) "Criteria used in selecting Vroom-Yetton decision styles." With W.C. Wedley and M.W.J. Hayward, Canadian Journal of Administrative Studies, Vol. 6, pp. 18-24.
16. (1988) "Management by Expectations (MBE): The power of positive prophecy." With D.A. Van Seters, Journal of General Management, Vol. 14(2), pp. 19-33. [See article]
17. (1988) "Informational social influence and vicarious learning in group decision making." International Journal of Small Group Research, Vol. 4, pp. 84-93.
18. (1986) "Constructive controversy, the Vroom-Yetton model, and managerial decision making." With D. Tjosvold and W.C. Wedley, Journal of Occupational Behavior, Vol. 7, pp. 125-138.
19. (1986) "Effect of concurrence, controversy, and consensus on group decision making." With D. Tjosvold, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 125, pp. 355-363.
20. (1984) "A predecision support system." With W.C. Wedley, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 9, pp. 696-703. [See article]
21. (1984) "Managers' structuring cooperative and competitive controversy in group decision making." With D. Tjosvold, International Journal of Management, Vol. 1, pp. 26-32. [See article]
22. (1983) "Effects of social context on consensus and majority vote decision making." With D. Tjosvold, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 26, pp. 500-506. [See article]
23. (1982) "Climate: A reconceptualization and proposed model." With M.A. Abelson, Human Relations, Vol. 35, pp. 181-201.
24. (1982) "A test of the Vroom-Yetton normative model of leadership." Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 67, pp. 523-532.
25. (1979) "A critique of the Vroom-Yetton contingency model of leadership behavior." Academy of Management Review, Vol. 4, pp. 249-257. [See article]
26. (1979) "Employee selection as a bargaining process: An exercise." Exchange: The Organizational Behavior Teaching Journal, Vol. 4(1), pp. 41-42.

Presentations and Other Publications

• (2012) "Time is not invariant" to be presented at the Western Academy of Management meeting, San Diego, March 2012.
• (2011) "Ethical Leadership in the 21st Century West" With Charles Keim. Presented at the 10th International Studying Leadership Conference, Bristol UK, December 2011.
• (2009) Book Chapter “Leadership” in “The Handbook of Technology Management”, Volume 1, pp. 178-188. Hossein Bidgoli, Editor-in-Chief, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. With Stephanie Buddle.
• (2005) Organizational Disasters paper presented at the Western Academy of Management meeting, Las Vegas, March 2005.
• (2004) Contributed data to: Culture, Leadership, and Organizations : The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
  by Robert J. House, Paul J Hanges, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfman, Vipin Gupta (Eds). Sage Publications.
• (2004) "High Speed Internet and Rural Business in Alberta Canada". Presented at the Western Academy of Management meeting in Alaska, March 2004. [See article]
• (2003) "Why Do Universities Make Discontinuous Changes to Their Web Sites?
  Examining the Relative Importance of Four Reasons for Change" Presented August 2003 at AMCIS 2003. With Terry Ryan and Lorne Olfman.
• (2002) "Homepage Genre Dimensionality". Presented at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Dallas, August 9-11 2002. With Terry Ryan and Lorne Olfman.
• (2002) "Implicit Conceptions of Leadership and Management". Presented at Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Winnipeg, May 25-28 2002. Leadership Images    Management Images
• (1999) "Cultural Influences on Leadership and Organizations: Project GLOBE", In Advances in Global Leadership (W. H. Mobley, M.J. Gessner, & V. Arnold, Eds.), pp. 171-233, Stamford, CN: JAI Press. With R. J. House, P.J. Hanges, S.A. Ruiz-Quintanilla, P.W. Dorfman, M. Javidan, M.W. Dickson, V. Gupta et al. (all co-authors of the GLOBE research project from 61 countries). [See article] [See tables]
• (1998) "Human Behaviour in Organizations: A Canadian Perspective." Second Edition. Published by Prentice Hall Canada.
• (1997) "Decontextualized mental models of leadership." With Julian P. Andrews. Paper presented at the 1997 meeting of the Western Academy of Management, Lake Tahoe California, April 1997.
• (1996) "The stories leaders tell." With Julian P. Andrews. Presented at the July 1996 meeting of Narrative and Metaphor Across the Disciplines conference, Auckland New Zealand.
• (1995) "Self-fulfilling prophecy in leadership process." In A. Kieser, G. Reber, and R. Wunderer (Eds.), Handworterbuch der Fuhrung (Encyclopaedia of Leadership) (Second edition, pp. 1918-1927). Stuttgart: Schaffer-Poeschel Verlag. [See article in German]
• (1995) "Human Behaviour in Organizations: A Canadian Perspective." With R.J. House. Published by Prentice Hall Canada. First Edition.
• (1995) . Instructor's Manual, Test Bank and Video Guide for "Human Behaviour in Organizations: A Canadian Perspective". Toronto: Prentice Hall Canada Inc.
• (1994) "The interplay of technology, gender, and structure." With N. Phillips, Peer commentary, Technology Studies, Vol. 1/2, pp. 192-196. [See article]
• (1993) "Pygmalion at work: Manager and corporation expectation effects on travel agency outcomes." With M.G. Evans, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada - Organizational Behaviour Division, N.S. Bruning (Ed.), Vol. 14(5), pp. 102-111.
• (1993) "Review of 'Leading Business Teams' by R. Johansen, D. Sibbet, S. Benson, A. Martin, R. Mittman, & P. Saffo." Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 14, pp. 291-292.
• (1993) "A test of the descriptive component of the Vroom-Jago model of managerial decision making." With Conor Vibert. Paper presented at the 1993 National Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, August.
• (1992) "Review of 'Participatory Action Research' by William Foote Whyte (Ed.).' Journal of Management, Vol. 18, p. 173.
• (1992) "New and improved? The Vroom-Jago group model of managing participation in organizations versus the Vroom-Yetton model." Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Management, Las Vegas, August.
• (1991) "Review of 'Pygmalion in Management: Productivity as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy' by D. Eden." Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 2(3), pp. 232-234.
• (1991). "Review of 'Managing Participation in Organizations' software". Journal of Management Systems, 3(2), 73-75.
• (1990) "Book review of 'Crucial Decisions' by I.S. Janis." Academy of Management Review, Vol. 15, pp. 542-545.
• (1989) "Leaders as stars, pulsars, quasars, and black holes." Business Horizons, Vol. 32(3), pp. 60-64.
• (1987) Informational social influence, vicarious learning, and the non-participant observer in group decision making. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada - Organizational Behaviour Division. Toronto, Ontario, June 1987. V. Baba (Ed.), 8(5), 66-75
• (1986). "Criteria used in selecting a decision process." With William C. Wedley, and Mark W.J. Hayward. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada - Organizational Behaviour Division. Whistler, British Columbia, June 1986. A. Templer (Ed.), 7(5), 58-67.
• (1984). "The Predecision model -- First tests". With William C. Wedley. Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management. Montreal, Quebec, May 1984. 13, 132-135.
• (1982) "Some findings with respect to the measurement of variables in the Vroom-Yetton model of decision making." With R.J. House & J.I. Steinman. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Management, New York, August.
• (1982) "Managerial decision making: The effects of structuring controversy and consensus. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C., August.
• (1982). "The Vroom-Yetton Model: Are feasible set choices due to chance?" With William C. Wedley.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, New York, August 1982. 42, 146-150.
• (1980) "Climate: An individual, group, and organizational perspective." With M.A. Abelson. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences, Las Vegas.
• (1980) "Business as an academic subject." Ninth Annual Meeting of the Northeast Regional Conference of the American Institute for Decision Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• (1979). "The rated benefits of various educational techniques". With Moses N. Kiggundu. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Division of the Academy of Management. Cleveland, Ohio, April 1979, 79-86.

Awards and Grants

• 2010 Mackenzie Teaching Award, Alberta School of Business
• 2009 McCalla Professorship, University of Alberta School of Business
• 2005 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace conferred by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology to the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness research team for “Culture, Leadership & Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies”
• SSHRC has funded a Research Alliances "Alberta SuperNet Research Alliance" proposal to the Initiative in the New Economy (INE) program. Funding of $300,000 over three years to award holder David B. Mitchell of the University of Calgary. My part of twelve person team is “The Creation of Virtual Industry Clusters”. 
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant of $43,000 awarded in the "Innovation in the New Economy Development Grant" competition June 2002 for the study of Homepage Cybergenres and Homepage Change.
• SAS Grant December 2001 for work on Homepage Cybergenres.
• Eric Geddes Professor of Business, University of Alberta - July 1995 to June 1998.
• Human Behaviour in Organizations textbook, First edition, chosen for inclusion in the University of Alberta's "Teaching the World" exhibit, June 1996.
• Labatt Faculty Teaching Award, University of Alberta Faculty of Business, 1994.
• Nominated for University Rutherford Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1995, 2007.
• Southam Fellowship, Faculty of Business University of Alberta, 1990.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1988, "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Management", $18,000.
• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1982, "Expert System Supported Decision Making in Organizations", With W.C. Wedley and D. Tjosvold, $32,000.
• American Psychological Association Division 14 PhD Dissertation Award finalist, 1982.
• Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1978.
• McMaster University Litvak Gold Medal, MBA Graduation Award, 1976.
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1975-1977.

Courses Taught

BUS 505 Fort McMurray MBA -- June 2011 -- "Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Communications"

SMO 201 Undergraduate Business Students -- January to April 2011 -- "Introduction to Management"

SMO 652 MBA -- Spring 2011 -- "Leadership Skills"

SMO 652 MBA -- Spring One week intensive 2011 -- "Leadership Skills"

SMO 652 Fort McMurray MBA -- Fall 2010 -- "Leadership Skills"

SMO 820 Executive MBA -- September to December 2010 -- "Managing Human Resources"

SMO 875 Executive MBA -- January to April 2011 -- "Leadership"

University Service Activities

• University of Alberta Convocation Committee 2010-
• Director of the PhD teaching Program for the School of Business, 2008-
• SMORG Department Teaching Program coordinator, 2007-
• School of Business Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2008 and 2009
• School of Business Research Ethics Board, 2008-2011
• Course coordinator for SMO201 "Introduction to Management" for business students, 2007-
• Graduate Studies Policy Committee 2004-
• School of Business representative on the Faculty of Arts Council 2003-2005
• General Faculties Council 1993-1996; 1998-2001; 2004-2006
• General Faculties Council Executive Committee 1994-1995
• Faculty of Arts Dean Selection Committee, 1998-1999
• Faculty of Business Executive Committee, 1997-2000
• General Faculties Council Academic Appeals Committee Alternate 1993-1996
• Associate Dean (Administration) of the Faculty of Business, July 1997-November 2000
• Acting Chair of the Department of Organizational Analysis for short periods of several days or weeks at a time, 1995-1998; 2007-
• Chair of Undergraduate Quality Council 1997-1998
• Selection Committee for the Dean of Business 1997
• Research Awards Committee Alternate Member 1994-1996
• Undergraduate Studies Policy Committee 1987-1991; 1995-1997; 2002-2004
• PhD Policy Committee 1993-1998; 2005-2006; 2008-
• Selection Committees for the Departments of: Organizational Analysis; Accounting and Management Information Systems; Marketing, Business Economics and Law
• Chair of the Labatt Faculty Teaching Award Selection Committee 1995
• Chair of the Department of OA Full Professor's Committee 1994, 1997
• Reappointment Committee for the Thornton A. Graham Chair 1994
• Faculty of Business Restructuring Committee 1994
• University Teaching Services Peer Consultant 1994-1996
• McCalla Professor Selection Committee 1993
• Department of Organization Analysis Ethics Review Committee 1989-1993; 2007-2011
• Undergraduate Program Admissions Committee 1995
• Undergraduate Program Admissions Review Committee 1998

Thesis committee chair for Julian Andrews, graduated 1999. Served on the thesis committee for Bruno Dyck, David Legge (Phys. Ed.). External examiner for Fred Jacques, University of Calgary June 2002.

Academic journal article reviews have been written for the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, The MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management Inquiry and the Academy of Management Review. I have also reviewed Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada applications, textbook proposals, and papers for the annual conferences of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, the Academy of Management, and the Western Academy of Management.

From 1988 to 1991, I was a member of the planning committee for the professional development of Administrative and Professional Officers at the University of Alberta and served as their academic coordinator for their annual conferences in those years.

University Related Conferences Attended

• AACSB "Assurance of Learning", Denver Colorado, May 2008
• AACSB "Emerging Curricula", Scottsdale Arizona, November 2006
• Canadian Federation of Business School Deans conference, Ottawa Ontario, June 1999

Community Service Activities

• Executive Education programs offered through the Alberta School of Business out of their Enterprise Square facility, on Leadership, Teams
• Talk on "Leadership" given to the Alberta meeting of Miller Thomson LLP in Calgary, October 1, 2010
• Organizational Behaviour seminars provided for Shell Canada, Fort Saskatchewan location
• Organizational Leadership: The Next Generation Symposium, February 28, 2007, put on by the School of Business Executive Education and Lifelong Learning Group, Fantasyland Hotel, Edmonton. My presentation in the morning and repeated in the afternoon, was “Leading now to build leaders of tomorrow”.
• Presentation "Management I" and "Management II" to China Association for the International Exchange of Personnel Program, December 7, 2004
• Presentation “Leadership in the Classroom” for University of Alberta Teaching Services, November 3, 2004
• Presentation on Canadian management practices to visiting students from Japan, August 2004
• Presentation on Management Ethics to Vernon Barford Junior High School students, January 2004
• Presentations on Management Principles to CIBS Chiang Foundation Advanced Manufacturing Management Program, Nov 24 and 27, 2003
• Presentation “Leadership in the Classroom” to University of Alberta Post Doctoral Fellows, Nov 26, 2003
• Presentation to Agriculture/Business Student Conference held at UofA March 2003
• Talk on Web Genres June 7, 2002 at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
• February 21, 2002 talk to the School of Behavioral and Organization Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, on Web Genres
• June 30 2000 talk to the Western Canada Campus Parking Conference titled "To see the ship from the eyes of the crew"
• President from April 1997 to April 1999 and Vice-President from 1995 to 1997 of the Ermineskin Community League, a volunteer group that works for the approximately 6,500 residents of the Ermineskin and Steinhauer areas in South Edmonton. Past-President May 1999 to April 2000.
• April 15, 1998 talk to the American Society for Quality - Edmonton Section titled "Organizational Behaviours and Challenges in Quality System Implementations".
• February to April 1995 provided a seminar on eight consecutive Saturday mornings titled "Leadership in Organizations" to 24 Edmonton and area government and industry leaders.
• June 20-23 1994 gave a 4 day seminar on management, for Educational Media Associates, to 5 managers from the Kenyan Institute of Education.
• September 21, 1993 talk to the Internal Auditors Association of Alberta titled "Fad and fashion versus the fundamentals in management thought".
• June 10, 1993 talk, "Introduction to the Canadian Work Setting", to representatives of the Indian Society for Technical Education.
• January 1991, one day seminar on "Leadership" for Fantasyland Hotel staff in Edmonton.
• March 1990, three day seminar "Supervisor Skills" for the YMCA in Edmonton.
• Presented 2 day seminar "Professional Management in Changing Times" to Edmonton Power employees in December 1988 and February 1989.
• November 1988 gave with Bruce Acton a 2-day seminar "Management By Expectations" for the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta.
• Presented a 3-day seminar "Management Communications" for the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta in May 1988 and October 1988.