Contact me at: mel.fugate@outlook.com

Check out my latest book: Managing Business Ethics and Your Career | SAGE

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Prof. Mel Fugate's professional life is comprised of four dimensions: research, teaching, consulting, and textbook writing. His major research streams are:

• Employee reactions to organizational change

• Employee cognitions and emotions

• Leadership and organizational culture

• Leading change

• Leadership and emotions

• Employability and careers

 

Many of the same phenomena he studies are also the focus of his consulting, and his clients often participate in his research. Among his specialties:

• Leading and managing change

• Ethical leadership and organizational cultures

• Culture change

• Leading strategically using purpose, vision, and values

• Performance management

• High performance and agile cultures

• Organizational strategy

• Exceptional client/patient service (building trust, loyalty, and share of wallet)

 

Most generally his research and consulting aim to improve individual and organizational performance by utilizing practical, research-based tools to understand, measure, and motivate change.

 

Prof. Fugate is also an award-winning teacher whose interests span many topics: organizational behavior, leadership, business ethics, ethical leadership, management, strategic human capital, organizational culture, leading and managing change, and performance management.

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His teaching experience includes online, face-to-face, and hybrid formats and crosses all levels—PhDs, executives, MBAs, masters, and undergraduates. He has taught in the United States, France, and Australia:

• Mississippi State University College of Business (Starkville, MS)

• Kogod School of Business at American University (Washington, DC)

• Center for Workplace Excellence at the University of South Australia (Adelaide, South Australia)

• Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, USA)

• EM Lyon Business School (Lyon, France)

• A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA)

• W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (Tempe, USA)

 

He completed his PhD in management with an emphasis in organizational behavior at Arizona State University. Before pursuing a PhD, Dr. Fugate received a BS in Engineering and Business Administration from Michigan State University, and his previous professional lives included work as a consultant and positions in health care and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Subset of Recent Awards and Leadership Positions

• Stanford University Rankings 2022: World’s Top 2% of Scientists List

• Academy of Management Journal Impact Paper Award (2020). Most impactful article published in the journal.

• Outstanding Reviewer Award (2018) for Journal of Management.

• Program Developer Director for Executive Committee, Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management (2023-2026).

• Executive Committee, Representative at Large, Careers Division of the Academy of Management (2020-2023).

• Co-director of Management PhD program (2020-2023).

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