MGNT4000, Human Resource Management
MGNT4010, Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
MGNT4060, Career Management and Development
"Relevance without rigor is meaningless." Richard Mowday, Presidential Address, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, August, 1996
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed." Michael Jordan (1963 -, American Basketball Player, Actor).
"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." Alan Greenspan
"Nobody rises to low expectations." Calvin Lloyd
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Yogi Berra
"All I know from business I've picked up along the way. I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?" Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Fortune, September 30, 2002, p. 61.
"The thing that we all had to learn is what to do when the passion starts to generate money." Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, Fortune, September 30, 2002, p. 72.
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." Norman R. Augustine
"You can see a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra
"If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was." Norman R. Augustine
"It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee." Norman R. Augustine
"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off." Norman R. Augustine
"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." Norman R. Augustine
"I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it." Harry S. Truman
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." Donald Rumsfeld
"To lead people, walk behind them." Lao Tzu
"What you think is the top, is only a step." Seneca
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs." Samuel Goldwyn
"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things." Peter F. Drucker
"The greatest power available to man is not to use it." Meister Eckart
"There are two tragedies in a man's life. One is not having reached one's goal and the other is having reached it." Friederich Nietzsche
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. " Yogi Berra
"The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra
"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em." Yogi Berra
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." Yogi Berra
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pine
“What you get by reaching your goal is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them.” Zig Ziglar
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always
interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things
we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know
there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the
ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our
country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the
difficult ones." Donald Rumsfeld, February 2002 DoD Press Briefing.
“A man’s mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz
“Winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” Anonymous
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail” Confucius
"How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? .... One....but the light bulb has to want to change." Unknown
"Example is NOT the main thing in influencing others. It is the ONLY thing." A. Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
"The past does not repeat itself...but it rhymes." Mark Twain
"It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Yogi Bera
I am a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management and Director of the MBA Programs at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. I teach primarily graduate and undergraduate organizational behavior, and undergraduate career development, labor relations, and human resource management. I'm also on the board of directors for Valdosta State University's Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) chapter. It's an excellent student organization. For more information...Society of Human Resource Management-Valdosta State University Student Chapter
My research interests are "organizational citizenship behavior," employee misbehavior, performance appraisal, career management, and employee work motivation. I was Proceedings Editor for the Southern Management Association from 1990 until 1996, and served on the Board of Directors for a three-year term beginning in 1997.
I received a Doctorate in Business Administration (D.B.A.) degree from Mississippi State University in 1982, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from Illinois State University, located in Normal, Illinois in 1978, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1975.
Email address: mschnake@valdosta.edu
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