Dayle Smith previously held appointments at Georgetown
University and USC. Currently at USF, she directs the Business
Honors Cohort Program in addition to teaching Organizational
Behavior, Global Management, Strategy and other management
electives in the MBA for Executives, MBA and undergraduate
programs.
Through the university she has worked with a number of executive
programs including the Kaist Korean Executive Program, the Helsinki
Managers Group, Northern Ireland Small Business Institute, Nippon
Telephone & Telegraph, and the China Resources Executive MBA.
She has taught internationally in Hong Kong, Mainland China and
Tbilisi, Georgia. Additionally, Professor Smith has been active in
the role of service learning in an academic environment, receiving
a national Top 10 finalist Ehrlich Award Spring of 2004,
recognizing her work in research, teaching and curriculum
development at both the school and university level.
In 2008, Professor Smith was awarded the University Service
Learning Award and again nominated for the National Ehrlich Award.
Her work in this area continues through the new Summer Public
Service Internship Program (PSIP) where she places her students in
paid internship opportunities with Bay Area non-profits agencies
that address a full range of social issues including homelessness,
healthcare, at-risk youth, children with disabilities, social
entrepreneurship and community redevelopment (see
www.psipatusf.wordpress.com).
Her research interests include leadership, teambuilding and group
effectiveness, corporate culture, e-business, service learning and
a number of human resource-related topic areas. Recent books
include: Learning Team Skills (2008); Management Communication 3nd
edition w/ Art Bell (Wiley, 2008) and Difficult People at work: How
to cope, How to win (MJF Books/Fine Communication, 2006); The
E-Business Book (Bloomberg Press), Women at Work: Leadership for
the Next Century (Prentice Hall); Management Communication (Wiley);
Leadership (NTC); Teambuilding and Innovation (NTC); Motivating
People (Barron's); Winning with Difficult People
(Barron's); and Kincare and the American Organization:
Managing the Work/Family Dilemma (Irwin). Her articles have
appeared in such journals as Human Resource Management Journal,
Journal of Business Communication, Human Resources Planning,
Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Staffing and
Recruitment, and others.
Smith actively consults for a number of organizations in areas of:
strategy; leadership and team training and development; executive
coaching in addition to providing research and development work on
related issues. A partial client list includes: Wells Fargo, Inc.,
MD Beauty, Inc (Bare Escentuals), Dominic's (subsidiary
food store chain of Safeway), Cisco, Charles Schwab Inc., Quaker
Oats, Infogenics, WEBB 99, Marriott Corporation, IDG, Ferrari
Foods, United States Coast Guard, United States Army, CIA Langley
Child Care Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Renn Vara for
Congress Campaign, DuPont -Mexico, Kaiser Health Plan, Foreign
Service Institute (U.S. State Dept.), PaineWebber, Countrywide
Mortgage Banking Credit, Inland Health Plan, Private Industry
Council of Los Angeles, Santa Fe- Southern Pacific, New York
University Executive Programs, USC Executive Programs, Lucky-Sav-On
Corporation, Library of Congress, Studley Real Estate Corporation,
Fried & Sher , Young President's Organization
(Baltimore YPO) and others.
