Mary Allen has been the department office support specialist since 2004. A native of New York, she has lived in northern Illinois since 1991. She has held numerous positions in financial and manufacturing companies before coming to the College of Business. She is currently President of the Staff Council.
Tina Alvarado has extensive experience in career services and academic counseling, and she currently serves as the Academic Advisor for the department. Prior to joining Northern Illinois University, she has held positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and has also held the position of corporate trainer.
Curtiss K. Behrens holds an LL.M. and is a graduate of DePaul University (1982). His expertise and interests are focused on the legal aspects of human resource management. His primary teaching responsibilities are courses in employment law and compensation and benefits. Mr. Behrens' expertise and interests are in the legal aspects of human resource management.
Terrence R. Bishop earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (1987). Dr. Bishop's expertise and interest are in human resource management. He coordinates the HR program in the department and teaches courses in human resource planning and staffing, training and development course in the undergraduate program and corporate social responsibility and management in the evening and Executive MBA programs. As faculty advisor for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), he has led the NIU SHRM chapter to numerous awards over the last decade. In 2000, Dr. Bishop was recognized as the SHRM National Advisor of the Year. He also was awarded the Ideal Industries Award in the Spring of 1995. This award honors teachers whom students feel effectively blend teaching theory with "real-world" business experience. His research has been published in journals, such as Public Personnel Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Labor Law Journal, among others.
Jon P. Briscoe earned his Ph.D. from Boston University (1998). Jon's expertise and interests lie in leadership, career development and management in cross-cultural settings, and executive development and learning. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of leadership and organizational behavior in the undergraduate, evening, Professional, and Executive M.B.A programs. He has published his research in journals including the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organization Dynamics, among others. He has played a leadership role in the Academy of Management's Career Division.
Paula E. Brown earned her Ed.D. from Northern Illinois University (1990) and received a national award for her dissertation. Dr. Brown's primary teaching responsibility is in the area of business communications and principles of management. She also presents workshops and seminars to business audiences. Dr. Brown serves on a national committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC).
James P. Burton earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington (2002). Dr. Burton's research interests are centered around the interaction of personality and perceptions of fairness in a person's decision to engage in a variety of workplace behaviors. He also conducts research on the topics of abusive supervision, negotiation effectiveness, absenteeism and turnover. His research has been published in a variety of outlets, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Business and Psychology, and the Journal of Managerial Issues. Dr. Burton has been recognized on several occasions for excellence in teaching and research. He has also served as a consultant or seminar leader to a variety of organizations including Boeing and Verizon. Dr. Burton is affiliated with the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.
Kenneth Elliott graduated with an Ed.D. in Business Education from Northern Illinois University (1997). Prior to joining the Department of Management in 1993, he served a twenty year career as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army. During that career, he served two tours of duty as an ROTC Instructor, one at Morehead State University (three years) and one at Northern Illinois University (five years), where he taught Juniors and Seniors to become officers in the Army. Since joining the College of Business, he has taught Principles of Management, Strategic Management; and Business Core Applications Seminars.
Angie Euhus has served as Assistant to the Chair in the Management Department since 1989, and has served in other administrative roles in the university. Prior to joining NIU, she attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Biology. She has served on the college’s Strategic Planning Council, Staff Council, Dean Search Committee, and multiple new building committees. She is currently a member of the college’s Facilities and Technology Committee.
Luis G. Flores earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University (1976). Dr. Flores' expertise and interests are in the area of organizational learning and strategic planning. His teaching responsibilities are in the areas of strategic management in the undergraduate and M.B.A. programs. As a consultant for several Fortune 500 companies and other companies, he has led Household International, Honeywell, General Signal, and others in strategic planning processes.
Charles R. Gowen III earned his Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1981). Dr. Gowen's expertise and research interests are in health care management. Dr. Gowen is the coordinator for the undergraduate cross-functional principles course. He also has teaching responsibilities in the strategic management area in the M.B.A. program. His research has been published in Journal of Operations Management, Journal of High Technology Management Research, and Journal of Business Ethics, among others.
Stephanie Henagan earned her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (2006). Her research interests are in the area of organizational behavior, particularly as it relates to the impact of interpersonal interactions within the workplace. She is actively involved in the Management History Division and Membership Committee of the Academy of Management. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in organizational behavior. She has published her research in Academy of Management Journal.
Sarah J. Marsh earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997). Dr. Marsh's expertise and interests are in strategic management, new product development, and knowledge management. She currently serves as Chair of the department and has teaching responsibilities in the area of strategic management and entrepreneurship in the undergraduate and Executive M.B.A. programs. Prior to joining NIU, Dr. Marsh worked in the software and financial services industries. Her research has been published in multiple outlets, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Organization, among others.
Christine H. Mooney earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University (2005). Her research interests include strategic leadership, executive succession, and top executive decision-making. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in strategic management. Her research has been published in Academy of Management Learning and Education and Organization Dynamics.
Wendy Marcinkus Murphy earned her Ph.D. from Boston College (2007). Her research interests are at the intersection of careers, motivation, and relationships, particularly in terms of gender differences and the dynamics of developmental networks. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in the area of organizational behavior. Prior to joining NIU, Wendy worked as a fashion buyer in the retail sector. She has published her research in Women in Management Review.
Cathy Lynn Neeley earned her Ph.D. from University of Tennessee (1987). Her expertise is in the areas of entrepreneurship and new venture management. She has been an advocate for and provider of entrepreneurship education in the United States and abroad, and she has extensive experience in Poland. Dr. Neeley is the Past-President of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and on the Executive Committee and the AACSB Liaison Committee of the Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship Division. She has many publications of applied research in journals such as the Small Business Forum, Journal of Small Business Management, Mid-American Journal of Business, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance, and others.
Roman Nowacki earned his M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (1998) and M.S.E.E. from Warsaw Technical University (Poland, 1974). Prior to joining NIU, Mr. Nowacki held management positions at Lucent Technologies in corporate strategy, process improvement, and customer satisfaction. From 1994 until 1996, Mr. Nowacki headed AT&T Communication Services Polska, a foreign subsidiary of AT&T Corp. and served on its Board of Directors. Prior to that Mr. Nowacki was International Market Manager for AT&T broadband products and held various positions in Bell Laboratories in areas, such as exploratory R&D management, project/program management, and M&A activities. His areas of interest are Strategic Scenario Planning and Entrepreneurship Management.
Keith Nyquist earned his M.A. from Northern Illinois University (1993). Before joining the Management Department, he taught in NIU's Department of English. He also worked for two years as a technical writer. In addition to teaching MGMT 346, Business Communication, he is part of the team that teaches the GMAT test prep course at NIU.
Ronald Parrish earned an M.B.A. from Rutgers University (1969), a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University, and became a licensed Professional Engineer in 1969. He has held executive positions in five major corporations including President of John Crane Polymers, N.A. and CEO of Acushnet Rubber Co. and CEO of Specialty Elastomers Technologies, Inc. He has owned his several businesses and performs management consulting in both industry and at the state government level. He has previously taught in the M.B.A. program at Fairleigh Dickenson University, in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering department at West Virginia University - College of Engineering, and in the Management Department at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois. His primary teaching responsibilities at NIU are in strategic management courses.
Joan Petros earned her M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (1999) and B.S. in Accountancy from Northern Illinois University (1987). She successfully completed the Uniform CPA Examination in May, 1987. Prior to joining NIU she held accounting and management positions for DeKalb Genetics Corporation, Monsanto Company and held controller positions for manufacturing firms in Rockford, Illinois. Her primary teaching responsibility is the Business Core Applications Seminar. She also serves as a faculty coach for the Experiential Learning Center student projects. Primary areas of interest include strategic management and project management.
Devaki Rau earned her Ph.D. from University of Minnesota (2001). Her expertise and interests are in strategic management, particularly as related to top management team decision-making processes. Prior to joining NIU, she worked in the Indian software industry. Dr. Rau's primary teaching responsibilities are in the area of strategic management. Her research has been published in Group and Organization Management, Journal of Business Research, and Small Group Research.
Bart Sharp is currently completing the dissertation requirement for his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Purdue University, expecting completion in December 2008. Bart comes to academics by way of a background in aerospace engineering which has informed his research interests in innovation, organizational learning, and entrepreneurship. Bart has previously taught strategic management at both the undergraduate and Executive M.B.A. levels, as well as undergraduate courses in operations management and principles of management.
Stacey Short earned her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (2002). Dr. Short has been teaching business communication as in the Department of Management since 1999, and has been teaching business and technical writing in a variety of venues to engineering, business, and science students since 1995. Her research areas include Interpersonal Communications and Business Etiquette.
Chris Thomas earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (2006). His research interests include employee engagement, the effects of role stress and burnout at work, and career-related learning activities like mentoring and executive coaching. His primary teaching duties are in the undergraduate Human Resource program. His research has been published in Educational and Psychological Measurement and Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Paul Vlajcic earned his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University in 1999. Dr. Vlajcic has been teaching business communication and fundamentals of management since 2000. He has also been an active consultant to various not-for-profit organizations in the Chicago area since 1994, specializing in communications and resource development.
David Wade earned his J.D. from the University of Iowa (1987). His expertise and interests are in employment law. Prior to joining NIU, he was a visiting professor at University of Iowa College of Law. His primary teaching responsibilities are in business law. His research has been published in various journals, including the Marquette Law Review, Labor Law Journal, among others.