Fundamentals of Management by Ricky Griffin

Ricky W. Griffin is a Distinguished Professor of Management and the Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. Dr. Griffin joined the faculty at the University of Missouri for three years after getting his PhD from the University of Houston in 1978, before coming to Texas A&M in 1981. His work on task design and dysfunctional work behavior has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Management, and others. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management. Ricky has served as Program Chair and Division Chair of the Academy's Organizational Behavior Division, as well as Program Chair and President of the Southwest Academy of Management and a member of the Southern Management Association's Board of Directors.

Both the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association have named him a fellow. Dr. Griffin has won numerous teaching prizes for his work in organizational behavior, human resource management, international management, and research methodologies. He speaks to executive groups frequently and is the author of several well used textbooks. Dr. Griffin was the Director of the Center for Human Resource Management at Texas A&M University and has recently returned to the Mays faculty after 11 years as the Management Department Head, Executive Associate Dean, and Interim Dean.

Workplace culture, managerial skill development, and crisis decision-making are some of his current research topics.