Introduction
Mick Sheppeck, PhD, teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in management and organizational behavior, human resource management, organization change, and storytelling.
Sheppeck's research focuses on the alignment of human resource management practices with business strategy and how people learn to think and act with a systems perspective. More specifically, he investigates how organizations with different customer strategies shape their organization cultures, hire employees with the requisite skills and values, develop their internal processes, and structure how the organization is operated on a daily basis. In addition, he studies how people in organizations learn to think and act with a systems perspective when solving organizational problems and making decisions.
His research is published in Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Development & Management, Human Resource Planning Journal, Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences, and the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration. He was the recipient of the Ulrich-Lake Award in 2001, for best human resources paper. He has received numerous “best paper” awards at academic conferences.
Sheppeck is passionate about combining his subject-matter expertise and prior industry experience in human resource management and organization development to train undergraduate students, mid-career and senior-level executives. He encourages thinking deeply about how the most important asset in an organization - its people - should be hired and motivated to achieve the organization's goals, their career and personal goals, and satisfaction.