Wisconsin School of Business

Randall (Randy) Dunham

Department Chair for Management & Human Resources, Faculty Director of CIBER

Professor - Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), International Business, Management & Human Resources
Keenan A. Bennett Chair of Industrial Management

Dr. Randall B. Dunham holds the Keenan A. Bennett Chair of Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. He is the Faculty Director of the UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). He was previously the Proctor and Gamble Professor of Quality and a Cargill Faculty Fellow.
Professor Dunham has over 30 years of experience in international business consulting to organizations in the U.S. and throughout the world, including Johnson Controls International, Sears, Canadian Pacific, IBM, Blue-Cross, Coca-Cola, General Electric, the State of Wisconsin, the U.S. government, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, and a variety of professional societies and small businesses. He has consulted to over 50 schools of business from 20 countries on the effective use of instructional technology and has received the National Educational Media Network Silver Apple Award.
Dunham has been actively involved in the academic, professional, and business communities. He has taught international management, organizational behavior, change management, data analysis, compensation, research methods, HR staffing, and doctoral seminars. He has taught at all levels within the School, as well as in the M.S. in Biotech program, the Executive MBA program, and other executive programs. His teaching has included seminars on and study trips to China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as classes for universities in China, Vietnam, England, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. He has organized and delivered faculty development programs for U.S. business professors in Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Dunham has received multiple teaching and service awards, including the Nasgovitz Curriculum Innovation Award. He developed one of the first computerized management simulations (The Manager's Workshop) and one of the first business classes to be taught on the Internet (the course has now been taught 35 consecutive semesters).
At the UW-Madison, Dunham has served as associate dean of graduate programs for the Business School, Director of its Executive MBA program and as senior associate dean. In the Academy of Management, he has chaired both the organizational behavior and research methods divisions, has served on its board of governors and is an installed member of the Academy’s Journals Hall of Fame. He is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. The Society of Human Resource Management has twice selected his research as the best Human Resources research of the year.
 

Selected Published Journal Articles

Lee, D., Rhee, Y., & Dunham, R. (2009). The role of organizational and individual characteristics in technology acceptance. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (25), 623.
Gardner, D., Cummings, L., Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1998). Single item versus multiple item measurement scales: An empirical comparison. Educational and Psychological Measurement (58), 898-915.
Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1998). Flexible workplace/telecoming. The concise Blackwell encyclopedic of management, 228.
Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1997). Flexible workplace/telecommuting. The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of human resource management, 119-120.
Pierce, J., & Dunham, R. (1997). Flexible working hours. The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of human resource management, 117-118.
Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1997). Compressed work schedules. The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of human resource management, 54-55.
Dunham, R., Grube, J., & Castaneda, M. (1994). Organizational commitment: The utility of an integrative definition. Journal of Applied Psychology (79), 370-380.
Castaneda, M., Levin, J., & Dunham, R. (1993). Using planned comparisons in management research: A case for the Bonferroni procedure. Journal of Management (19), 707-724.
Pierce, J., Gardner, D., Dunham, R., & Cummings, L. (1993). Moderation by organization-based self-esteem of role condition-employee response relationships. Academy of Management Journal (36), 271-288.
Barber, A., Dunham, R., & Formisano, R. (1992). The impact of flexible benefits on employee satisfaction: A field study. Personnel Psychology (45), 55-57.
Pierce, J., & Dunham, R. (1992). The 12-Hour Work Day: A 48-Hour, Eight-Day Week. Academy of Management Journal (36), 1086-1098.
Greenberger, D., Strasser, S., Cummings, L., & Dunham, R. (1989). The impact of personal control on performance and satisfaction. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (43), 29-51.
Pierce, J., Gardner, D., Cummings, L., & Dunham, R. (1989). Organization-based self-esteem: Construct definition, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal (32), 622-648.
Gardner, D., Dunham, R., Cummings, L., & Pierce, J. (1989). Focus of attention at work: Construct definition and empirical validation. Journal of Occupational Psychology (62), 61-77.
Gardner, D., Cummings, L., Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1987). Focus of attention at work and reactions to organizational change. Journal of Occupational Behavior (8), 277-294.
Pierce, J., & Dunham, R. (1987). Organizational commitment: Pre-employment propensity and initial work experiences. Journal of Management (13), 163-178.
Dunham, R., Pierce, J., & Castaneda, M. (1987). Alternative work schedules: Two field quasi-experiments. Personnel Psychology (40), 215-242.
Gardner, D., Dunham, R., Cummings, L., & Pierce, J. (1987). Focus of attention at work and reactions to organizational change. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (8), 277-294.
Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1986). Attitudes toward work schedules: Construct definition, instrument development, and validation. Academy of Management Journal (29), 170-182.
Pierce, J., Dunham, R., & Cummings, L. (1984). Sources of environmental structuring and participant responses. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance (33), 214-242.
Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1983). The design and evaluation of alternative work schedules. Personnel Administrator, 67-75.
Dunham, R., Pierce, J., & Newstrom, J. (1983). Job context and job content. Journal of Management (9), 187-202.
Dunham, R., & Formisano, R. (1982). Designing and evaluating employee benefit systems. Personnel Administrator, 29-35.
Ferratt, T., Dunham, R., & Pierce, J. (1981). Self-report measures of job characteristics and affective responses: An examination of discriminatory validity. Academy of Management Journal (24), 780-794.
Taylor, M., & Dunham, R. (1980). A program for planned student and personnel practitioner interactions. Personnel Administration, 71-73.
Pierce, J., Dunham, R., & Blackburn, R. (1979). Social systems structure, job design, and growth need strength: A test of a congruency model. Academy of Management Journal (22), 223-240.
Dunham, R., Newman, J., & Blackburn, R. (1979). If you don't like it, change it. National Society of Performance and Instruction Journal (18), 11-13.
Pierce, J., & Dunham, R. (1978). The measurement of perceived job characteristics: The Job Diagnostic Survey versus the Job Characteristics Inventory. Academy of Management Journal (21), 123-128.
Pierce, J., & Dunham, R. (1978). An empirical demonstration of the convergence of common macro- and micro- organization measures. Academy of Management Journal (21), 410-418.
Dunham, R., & Hawk, D. (1977). The four-day/ forty-hour week: Who wants it?. Academy of Management Journal (20), 644-655.
Dunham, R., Smith, F., & Blackburn, R. (1977). Validation of the Index of Organizational Reactions with the JDI, The MSQ, and Faces Scales. Academy of Management Journal (20), 420-432.
Dunham, R., Aldag, R., & Brief, A. (1977). Dimensionality of task design as measured by the Job Diagnostic Survey. Academy of Management Journal (20), 209-223.
Dunham, R. (1977). Reactions to job characteristics: Moderating effects of the organization. Academy of Management Journal (20), 42-65.
Dunham, R. (1977). Relationships of perceived job design characteristics to job ability requirements and job value. Journal of Applied Psychology (62), 760-763.
Dunham, R. (1977). Shift work: A review and theoretical analysis. Academy of Management Review (2), 624-634.
Hawk, D., & Dunham, R. (1977). The four-day/ forty-hour week: A selected bibliography. Exchange Bibliography, #1248.
Dunham, R. (1976). The measurement and dimensionality of job characteristics. Journal of Applied Psychology (61), 404-409.
Pierce, J., & Dunham, R. (1976). Task design: A literature review. Academy of Management Review (1), 83-97.
Wooley, O., Wooley, S., & Dunham, R. (1976). Deprivation, expectation, and threat: Effects on salivation in the obese and nonobese. Physiology and Behavior (17), 187-193.
Herman, J., Dunham, R., & Hulin, C. (1975). Organizational structure, demographic characteristics and employee responses. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance (13), 206-232.
Dunham, R., & Herman, J. (1975). Development of a female faces scale for measuring job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology (60), 629-631.
Dunham, R., & Kravetz, D. (1975). Canonical correlation analysis in a predictive system. Journal of Experimental Education (43), 35-42.
Dunham, R. (1974). Ability-skill relationships: An empirical explanation of change over time. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance (12), 372-382.
Dunham, R. (1973). Achievement motivation as predictive of academic performance: A multivariate analysis. Journal of Educational Research (67), 70-72.
Dunham, R. (1972). Prediction of academic performance by the sentence completion method. Journal of Educational Research (65), 203.
Wooley, O., Wooley, S., & Dunham, R. (1972). Can calories be percieved and do they affect hunger in obese and nonobese humans?. Journal of Comparative and Physiological and Physiological Psychology (80), 250-258.
Wooley, O., Wooley, S., & Dunham, R. (1972). Calories and sweet taste: Effects on sucrose preference in the obese and nonobese. Physiology and Behavior (9), 765-768.

Presentations

71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
East Meets West (and Everyone Else): Developing Effective Foreign Study Tours

71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology to Enlighten, Balance, and Transcend

70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology: Bring High Tech and High Touch Passion to Teaching and Learning

69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology: Less Paper, More Green, More Learning

69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Challenges and opportunities in teaching online and from remote locations

68th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Prototypical Interactions Between Leaders and Followers:An Exploratory Study of Latin America

68th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with technology: Asking the right questions with and about technology

68th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The questions we ask & don't ask: Where should we go from here?

67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching Well With Technology: Helping Students Do Good As Managers

67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Technology-Enhanced Learning: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

2006 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
Leader and follower prototypes an exploratory study of Asia and South America

66th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology: Providing Students with Tools to Put Course Knowledge into Action

66th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Technology-Enhanced Learning: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Internationalizing Doctoral Education in Business (IDEB)
The Globalization of Business.

Joint PACIBER/CIBER initiative
The Pedagogy of Online Course Instruction: Examples from Organizational Behavior in an Asian Context.

Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference
Have You Used the Potential of Your Digital Camera Yet?

65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Moving Images: Cinema in the Classroom

65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology: Hands-On Seismic Examples and Human Insights for the 21st Century

65th Meeting of the Academy of Management
Academy Arts Opening and Reception

Human-Computer Interaction Conference
Expanding the technology acceptance model: The role of organizational and individual characteristics, HCI Internationa 2005

64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Cinema Update: New Film Scenes for Teaching

64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology: Practitioner-Friendly Delivery of Actionable Knowledge


Internet Teaching: Pedagogy and Development

30th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference
The Manager's Workshop: A Multimedia Interactive Simulation for Developing Skills in Effectively Motivating Employees

63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching with Technology: Enhancing Democratic Course Participation

62nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Teaching Management with Technology: You need a network to teach without a net

61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Instructional Technology: Facilitating its acceptance and use

61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Transcending Boundaries in Teaching O.B.: How Technology Changes Student and Professor Resource Usage

60th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Transcending temporal boundaries in teaching OB: Employing technology to change the ways students and professor use and experience technology

Sessions on instructional technology

59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Take the Plunge! Developing Skills Using Electronic Technology in the Teaching of Management.

59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The Importance of Teaching.

59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Using Distance Learning Technologies to Teach Management.

58th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Information Technology: Teaching Challenges and Research Opportunities.

58th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Technology and Teaching: Implications for the Future of the Management Classroom.

57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Instructional technology

57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Technology Enhanced Learning in Management Education: An Electronic Fair.

37th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Academy of Management
Teaching with a CD/ROM Multimedia Simulation.

55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The Manager's Workshop CD-ROM

54th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

54th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Distributive justice and the allocation of compensation: An investigation of performance-based benefits.

53rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Exploring the Boundaries Between Research and Teaching.

Society for Organizational Behavior Annual Meeting
Instructional Technology in Action.

52nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Single item versus multi-item measurement scales: An empirical comparison.

34th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Division of the Academy of Management
Organization-based self-esteem and managerial behaviors.

51st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Determinants of focus of attention at work: A causal analysis of individual differences.

51st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The moderating effects of organization-based self-esteem on the role condition-performance/satisfaction relationship: A test of behavioral plasticity.

50th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management
Multimedia Technologies: Their Use in Instruction and Research

50th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Motivation: The Manager's Workshop.

50th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Organization commitment: The construct and its measurement.

50th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The impact of flexible benefits on employee benefit satisfaction.

49th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The development of an attitude towards change instrument.

Annual Conference of the Industrial Relations Research Association's Symposium
Workforce 2000 and job design

CORS/TIMS/ORSA Conference
Focus of attention and problem identification.

20th Annual Meeting of the Decision Science Institute.
Construct validation: An application of meta-analysis.

48th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Employee locus of control: A new conceptualization.

The Third Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the American Psychological Association)
Job Design: Expanding the contextual domain.

The Third Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the American Psychology Association)
The us of multivariate statistical techniques in applied organizational research.

30th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Division of the Academy of Management
Self-assessment and reactions to work

Symposium at the University of Wuppertal
Focus of attention at work and organizational effectiveness.

18th Annual Meeting of the Decision Science Institute
Focus of attention at work: Leader-follower relationships.

27th Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management
Focus of attention and organizational effectiveness: A longitudinal study

46th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Application of a powerful a priori multiple comparison technique to behavioral data

46th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Personal control, performance and job satisfaction

The First Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the American Psychological Association)
The dynamics and process of job redesign: A case example.

17th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
Assessing the impact of person-job fit using the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) and the Job Activity Preference Questionnaire (JAPQ).

17th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
Research Methodology Issues in the Organizational Sciences.

17th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
The direct and interactive effects of focus of attention and work-unit structure on worker effectiveness.

37th National Conference of the American Society for Personnel Administration
Financial Impact of Attitudes

45th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Focus of attention at work and reactions to work experiences.

93rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
The modeling and evaluation of flexible benefit plans.

Society for Organizational Behavior Convention
Focus of attention and work behavior.

36th National Conference of the American Society for Personnel Administration
Personnel research techniques

44th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
The systematic design and evaluation of non-cash compensation systems

Western American Institute of Decision Sciences
An evaluation and extension of the Steers turnover model

20th International Congress of the Institutional Association of Applied Psychology
Shift work

20th International Congress of the Institutional Association of Applied Psychology
The state of the art of job design and redesign in the United States

34th National Conference of the American Society for Personnel Administration.
Alternative work schedules

Southern Management Association
The roles of job content and job context.

13th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
The complementary roles of lab and field studies for task design.

33rd National Conference of the American Society for Personnel Administration
Design and evaluation of employee benefit plans

89th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Standardized job evaluation: Some critical issues.

12th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
The design and evaluation of employee benefit systems.

12th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
The measurement of attitudes towards alternate work schedules.

88th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Labor Relations

88th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Realistic job previews: Applied jobs for industrial/organizational psychologists.

88th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Standardized job evaluation: Reliability, validity, and utility.

11th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences
Task design and organizational design.

21st Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Academy of Management
Matching individuals, job design changes, and organization characteristics.

39th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Let's not forget these are people.

39th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Multiple approaches to job design measurment and affective and behavioral responses to job design.

38th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Employee responses to work unit structure and job design: A comparative examination of two construct models.

50th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association
Employee reactions to technological and organizational changes: Two quasi-experimental job redesign field studies.

86th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Job evaluation: Two instruments and sources of pay satisfaction.

37th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Convergent and discriminant validity of job satisfaction measures as a function of sex and job.

37th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Measurement problems: Job design, technology and organization structure.

36th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Dimensionality of task design as measured by the Job Diagnostic Survey

36th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Empirical evaluation of an operational paradigm of job satisfaction

48th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association
Selection systems, EEOC guidelines, and temporal changes in ability-skill relationships.

84th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Validation of a set of attitude scales

Western Academy of Management Convention
Task design: Measurement and dimensionality

45th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association
Temporal change in the prediction of performance: Inadequacy of the changing subject model

Indiana/Kentucky Psychological Association Joint Meeting
A multivariate analysis of predictor variables of need achievement and academic grade-point average of college students

Professional Organizations

Chair, Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management


Photograph of Randall Dunham

Randall (Randy) Dunham

Department Chair for Management & Human Resources, Faculty Director of CIBER
 
Professor | Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), International Business, Management & Human Resources
Keenan A. Bennett Chair of Industrial Management
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