Debra L. Nelson is the College of Business Administration Associates' Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University (OSU). She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington, where she was the recipient of the R. D. Irwin Dissertation Fellowship Award.
Dr. Nelson has authored more than 70 journal articles focusing on organizational stress management, newcomer socialization, and management of technology. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Executive, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Dynamics, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and other journals. In addition, she has coauthored and coedited several books, including Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges; Advancing Women in Management; and Preventive Stress Management in Organizations (APA, 1997).
Dr. Nelson has also served as a consultant to several organizations, including AT&T, American Fidelity Assurance, Sonic, State Farm Insurance Companies, and Southwestern Bell. She has presented leadership and preventive stress management seminars to a host of organizations, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Conoco, Oklahoma Gas and Electric, Oklahoma Natural Gas, and Preview Network Systems.
She was honored with the Greiner Graduate Teaching Award in 2001, the Chandler-Frates and Reitz Graduate Teaching Award in 1997, the Regents' Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994, and the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award at OSU in 1991.
Dr. Nelson also serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Executive.
Ronald J. Burke is one of Canada's most prolific researchers. His work has focused on the relationship between the work environment and the individual's overall well-being, and over the past 30 years he has written articles for numerous academic and professional journals.
In addition to his research 259 and teaching activities, Dr. Burke was the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. He has served on the editorial board of a dozen journals and has reviewed manuscripts for a dozen more journals. He has served as a member of two grant committees for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as director of the PhD program in administrative studies at York University, and as associate dean of research with the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University. He has participated in research conferences in North and South America and in Europe.
Dr. Burke previously held the Imperial Life Professorship in Organizational Behavior and was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Management Research and Development, School of Business Administration, University of Western Ontario. As holder of this professorship, he started the Women in Management Research Program.
Dr. Burke earned a BA from the University of Manitoba and an MA and a PhD from the University of Michigan. After completing his PhD, Dr. Burke taught for 2 years at the University of Minnesota and then joined the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University.
Dr. Burke has participated in more than 300 management development programs and has served as a consultant on organizational effectiveness issues for private and public sector organizations. His views on management have also appeared in various media.
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