Management 6th Asia-Pacific Edition By John R Schermerhorn, Paul Davidson, Aharon Factor, David Poole
Print ISBN: 9780730329534, 0730329534
eText ISBN: 9780730329534, 0730329534
By: John R Schermerhorn, Paul Davidson, Aharon Factor, David Poole, Peter Woods, Alan Simon, Ellen McBar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia
Print ISBN: 9780730329534, 0730329534
eText ISBN: 9780730329534, 0730329534
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2017
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
John R. Schermerhorn Jr
Dr John R. Schermerhorn Jr is the Charles G. O?Bleness professor of management emeritus in the
College of Business at Ohio University. John earned a PhD in organisational behaviour from Northwestern
University, an MBA (with distinction) in management and international business from New
York University, and a BS in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He previously taught at Tulane University, the University of Vermont, and Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, where he also served as head of the Department of Management and associate dean of the
College of Business Administration.
Management educators and students alike know John as the author of several leading international
textbooks, including Exploring Management and Management 13th edition, and as a senior co-author
of Organizational Behavior 13th edition and Core Concepts of Organizational Behavior. John has
also published numerous articles in leading management journals and is a member of the Academy of
Management.
Paul Davidson
Dr Paul Davidson is associate professor of management in the Queensland University of Technology
Business School. He has 35 years? university teaching experience and more than 100 academic publications,
including nine books, to his credit. He has studied and taught at the University of Queensland,
the University of Birmingham, the University of Geneva, the University of Otago, Stanford University
and Southern Cross University. He has degrees in science (psychology), theology and business administration.
In addition, Paul has consulted and taught nationally and internationally to many public and
private sector organisations, including the Sheraton Hotel Group in Australia and Asia, Royal Dutch
Shell in the Netherlands and the United States, and extensively to the Royal Australian Navy in Sydney.
He has been a visiting professor in management at Reims Management School and Grenoble Graduate
School of Business in France, Jyv?skyl? Polytechnic in Finland, Euromed Business School at Marseille
in France, and at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.
His doctoral research was in the area of management education and development, and his current
research interests are in the development of HR management competencies and international human
resource management, and in project management. Prior to his academic career, Paul was an officer in
the Royal Australian Air Force and a clinical psychologist. Between academic appointments, he has been
chief executive officer of a company with some 650 employees. He was a state councillor (1994?2007)
and president (2000?05) of the Australian Human Resources Institute in Queensland, and chairman of
its National Accreditation Committee (2004?10), as well as being a fellow of the Australian Human
Resources Institute. He is also a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Aharon Factor
Aharon Factor began his academic career studying at Kings College, University of London, and holds
a PhD from the Aarhus Business School, University of Aarhus, in Denmark. He has a diverse working
background and has recently opened a sustainability consulting firm, Sustainable SME, after a period
engaging in academic teaching and research. He most recently worked as a lecturer in business sustainability
at Swinburne
University of Technology, and was previously at Curtin University of Technology
and the University of New England. His field of research is focused upon the sustainability behaviours
of Australian
small- and medium-sized businesses.
