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manager at OnLine Financial. Additionally, she has been a consultant for
many organizations, such as AT&T and LOMA, Inc. Her current research
concerns the effect of human resource management practices on group
and organizational performance, the management of diversity, and corpo­
rate image. She frequently presents the results of her research at national
and regional meetings and serves as an editorial reviewer for several major
scholarly journals. Her research findings have appeared in journals such as
Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Business
and Psychology. She is active in several professional associations including
the Academy of Management Association, American Psychological As­
sociation, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the
Southern Management Association. She is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Management.
Bryan S. Schaffer is an assistant professor in the Department of Man­
agement & Accountancy at the University of North Carolina—Asheville.
He earned a BS from the University of Florida, an MBA from Georgia
State University, and a PhD in Organizational Behavior & Human Re­
source Management from the University of Georgia. At UNC—Asheville,
he teaches courses in Foundations of Management, Organizational Be­
havior, and Human Resource Management. His research interests include
relational demography, workplace discrimination, and group & team dy­
namics. Schaffer has published his work in peer reviewed journals and
proceedings, including Organizational Research Methods, and has presented
his work at various national academic conferences. He is a member of the
Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and
the Southern Management Association.
Benjamin Schneider is senior research fellow at Personnel Research As­
sociates, Inc. and professor of psychology at the University of Maryland.
He taught for many years at Maryland and also at Yale, MSU, Dartmouth,
Peking University (China), IAE (France), and Bar-Ilan University (Israel).
Dr. Schneider has two major streams of research, each of which has several
subcategories. One research stream concerns the role of manager personal­
ity in understanding the structure, strategy, and climate /culture of organi­
zations. His second stream of research concerns research directed at under­
standing organizational designs for service quality. He has consulted with
numerous companies on issues of service quality and personnel selection.
He won the SIOP year 2000 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award.
His academic accomplishments include more than 90 journal articles and
book chapters, eight books, and appointment to the editorial review boards
at various times of the Journal of Applied Psychology and other major jour­
nals. Professional recognition for his accomplishments include: election