Charles C. Manz

Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Business Leadership Management

Office: Isenberg 229A

Tel: 413.545.5584

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Academic Background

Education

PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 1981

MBA, Michigan State University, 1975

BA, Michigan State University, 1974

Academic Appointments

Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Business Leadership, Department of Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1997-Present

Professor, Department of Management, College of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1995-1997

Associate Professor, Department of Management, College of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1988-1989

Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988-1989

Assistant Professor, Department of Strategic Management and Organization, School of Management, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesotao, 1982-1988

Research Interests

Leadership (Self-Leadership, Empowering Leadership, Virtuous Leadership, Shared Leadership, International Leadership)
Organizational Values and Virtues (Ethical and Virtuous Organizational Behavior, Workplace Spirituality, Positive Organizational Scholarship)
Work Teams (Empowered Teams, Leading Teams, Virtual Teams, Groupthink & Teamthink, Team Member Self-Management)
Emotion at Work (Emotional Self-Leadership, Emotion Regulation and Discipline, Succeeding Through Failure, Emotional Intelligence)
Health, Fitness and Wellness at Work (Fitness & Leadership, Stress Management, Wellness Practices & Personal Effectiveness)
Organizational Knowledge and Learning (Knowledge Management, Vicarious Learning & Modeling Based Training, Andragogy/Adult Learning, Management Education)

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate

Leadership

Masters

Teams and Collaboration
Leadership
Organizational Behavior

PhD

Teams and Collaboration
Leadership
Organizational Behavior

Recent Honors & Awards

Ranked 13th for impact outside/beyond academia in a worldwide study of Management Scholars published in the journal Academy of Management Perspectives, 2012

Selected for keynote presentations at several universities (e.g., Harvard, University of Chicago, Moscow School of Management), 2012-2013

Selected Publications

Pearce, C. L., Manz, C. C. and Sims, H. P. Jr. (Forthcoming),Don't Take the Lead, Share the Lead, Information Age Publishing. (Note: this book was just the subject of a new article in a Financial Times related publication based on an interview with my co-author Craig Pearce).

Shipper, F., Adams, S. B., Brown, M. O., Calo, T. J., Decker, W. H., Hoffman, R. C., Manz, C.C., Manz, K. P. Roche, O. P., Street, M. D., Street, V. L. & Weer, C. H. (forthcoming 2014). Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (note: this book that addresses employee ownership including coops purposely has a co-author cooperative team consisting of all the book's contributors … I am also a full co-author on four primary chapters in the book)

Neck, C.P. and Manz, C.C. Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence, (6th Edition), Prentice-Hall, 2013.

Neck, C., Mitchell, T., Manz, C.C., Thompson, T. and Tornelli-Mitchell, J. Fit to Lead: The Proven Solution For Shaping Up Your Body, Mind, and Career, Carpenter's Son Publishing, 2012.