School of Management — Organizations Leadership and Communication

Richard Stackman

Associate Dean / Associate Professor

Richard W. Stackman (Ph.D.) is the associate dean of undergraduate programs and is an associate professor in the Department of Organization, Leadership & Communication. He also serves as the director of the Organization Development master's program. Dr. Stackman earned his doctorate in business administration from the University of British Columbia. His undergraduate degree (cum laude) in business administration is from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma.


His courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels have focused on such topics as organizational behavior, organization development, organizational change, leadership and management, consulting practices, human resources management, research methods, complexity science, and human capital investments.


His primary scholarly interests include organizational change, organizational sages, complexity science, and personal values. Dr. Stackman is the co-author of Managing Organizational Change (3rd Edition) and has published articles or chapters in theJournal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Project Management Journal, Emergence: Community & Organization,World Futures, the Journal of Higher Education, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the Journal of Management Education, and the Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture.

Dr. Stackman is the faculty advisor to the MBA student consulting firm, The Malloy Group. He is the former president of the Western Academy of Management (WAM) is the section editor-Six Degrees-for the Journal of Management Inquiry. Prior to coming to the University of San Francisco in 2003, Dr. Stackman was on the faculty at the University of Washington-Tacoma and a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University. Professionally, he worked for a daily newspaper-writing and editing copy.



Education

Ph.D., Business Administration, University of British Columbia, 1995

Teaching
  • Leading Organization Change & Development
  • Leadership & Teams
  • Complexity and Leadership Realities
  • Consulting Practicum
  • Human Capital Investments
  • Topics in Organizational Behavior
Publications

STACKMAN, R.W., & Devine, K. (2011). Leadership and "emotional-rational" coherence: A start?-Editor's Introduction. Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(1), 42-44.

Henderson, L.S., & STACKMAN, R.W. (2010). An exploratory study of gender in project management: Interrelationships with role, location, technology, and project cost. Project Management Journal, 41(5), 37-55.

STACKMAN, R.W., Connor, P.E., & Becker, B.W. (2006). Sectoral ethos: An investigation of the personal value systems of female and male managers in the public and private sectors. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 16(4), 577-597.

STACKMAN, R.W., Henderson, L.S., & Bloch, D.P. (2006). Emergence and community: The story of three complex adaptive entities. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 8(3), 78-91.

Louie, B., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J.M., & STACKMAN, R.W. (2003). Advancing the scholarship of teaching through collaborative self-study. Journal of Higher Education, 74(2), 150-171.

Connor, P.E., Lake, L.K., & STACKMAN, R.W. (2003). Managing organizational change (3 Edition). Westport, CT: Praeger. [Chinese edition published in 2005 with 2003 copyright.]

STACKMAN, R.W., Pinder, C.C., & Connor, P.E. (2000). Values lost: Redirecting research on values in the workplace. In N. Ashkanasy, C.P.M. Wilderom, & M.F. Peterson (Eds.), Handbook of organizational culture & climate (pp. 37-54). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

STACKMAN, R.W., & Pinder, C.C. (1999). Context and sex effects on personal work networks. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16(1), 39-64.