James R. Bailey, Ph.D.Professor of Organizational Behavior and Development
School of Business
Research Faculty, Center for the Study of Learning
Graduate School of Education and Human Development
The George Washington University
Ph.D., Washington University, 1992 (Psychology)
AM, Washington University, 1988 (Organizational Behavior)
BA, Eastern Illinois University, 1985 (Psychology)
James Bailey joined GWU in 1999 after spending seven years at Rutgers University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Management-responsible for all planning and operations related to undergraduate students and programs-Associate Director of the Teaching Excellence Center-which focused on facilitating change in academic departments and programs-and co-founder and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Conflict Management-an interdisciplinary program that involved the business school, psychology department and law school. He has been a visiting professor, or holds appointments, at the London Business School, New York University, the Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan Business School, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland), the American College of Greece, and Adelaide University (Australia).
As a teacher, Dr. Bailey was named Undergraduate Educator of the Year at GWU in 2003 and Professor of the Year for three consecutive years (1993-1995) at Rutgers. In 1995 he received the David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award, a national distinction bestowed by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. As faculty in the Psychology Department at Washington University he was given the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Bailey's scholarship examines how developmental dynamics are manifested in crucial tensions between opposing values. At the individual level, he has explored how practitioners understand and adapt their competencies in response to environmental demands and the performance implications of emotional intelligence. At the disciplinary level, he has studied theory development in organization science, as well as pedagogy, curriculum design, and faculty development. His work has appeared in such outlets as Organization Science, Human Performance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Management Education, Educational and Psychological Measurements and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations. He has published over 50 papers and book chapters, 15 book reviews and case studies, and presented over 40 papers at academic conferences. He serves in an editorial capacity for several major scholarly journals, and is Editor of the Academy of Management Learning & Education.
Professor Bailey has worked extensively as an executive educator, consultant or coach on issues relating to leadership, conflict management, skill development, and organizational change. Firms that he has been involved with include Morgan Stanley and Nestle. He co-authored successful grants from Lucent Technologies to examine the efficacy of their Learning and Performance Center, and General Electric to establish a Learning Excellence Project at Rutgers. He has appeared as a management authority on national television programs and has been cited in many newspaper and magazine articles, including Fortune and Forbes.
