Bio of Linda Trevino
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Linda Trevino |
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Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics, Distinguished Professor |
Introduction
Linda K. Treviño is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics, and Director of the Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics in the Smeal College of Business where she has been on the faculty since 1987. She served as Chair of the Department of Management and Organization from 1999-2004. She holds a Ph.D. in management from Texas A&M University. Her research and writing on the management of ethical conduct in organizations is widely published and is known internationally. She has published more than sixty journal articles and has co-authored a textbook with Katherine Nelson entitled Managing Business Ethics; Straight Talk About How to do it Right, published by John Wiley in 1995. The fourth edition was published in 2007. The book, which is being used to teach undergraduates, MBAs, and executives, addresses how people can manage their own ethical conduct and the conduct of their employees in today's business organizations. A more academic book, entitled Managing Ethics in Business Organizations: Social Scientific Perspectives, with Gary Weaver, was published in 2003 by Stanford University Press. Professor Treviño has taught all types of students, from undergraduates, to MBAs, to Executive MBAs, to Ph.D.s, and executives. She has also consulted with for-profit and non-profit organizations and has led research projects for Arthur Andersen’s former Ethics & Responsible Business Practices Consulting and for the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program where she is Chair of the Invited Fellows. She has made presentations to academic, practitioner, and corporate audiences including the Defense Industry Initiative, the Government Ethics Office, the Conference Board, the Conference Board of Canada, the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, The Money Management Institute, the NASD (now FINRA), the Human Resources Planning Society, and the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association. In 2007, she was elected a member of the Academy of Management Fellows, a group that recognizes and honors members of the Academy of Management who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. In 2004, Professor Treviño was invited to serve as a core faculty member in the Business Roundtable’s Institute for Business Ethics where she continues to serve. She also served on the AACSB’s task force on ethics in the curriculum and began a 4-year term as the Academy of Management Ethics Ombudsperson in January, 2006. Professor Treviño serves as the Management Area Editor for Business Ethics Quarterly, serves on the editorial review board of Journal of Management, and completed a two-year term as Associate Editor of Academy of Management Reviewin July, 2008. She is currently serving as the incoming Division Chair for the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management. Professor Treviño received the best paper award from the prestigious Academy of Management Review in 1993 and from the journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, in 2007. She has received the best paper award three times from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Current Research
Professor Trevino's research focuses on understanding ethical and unethical conduct in work organizations. Her current research includes work on ethical leadership, values-based leadership, moral awareness, moral disengagement, and impacts on speaking up in organizations. She also studies academic integrity issues including honor codes as organizational change initiatives, and the impact of honor codes on college students’ cheating behavior.
Publication List
L. Trevino and M. Brown, "Managing to be ethical: Debunking five business ethics myths", Academy of Management Executive, 2004, 18, , 69-83.
L. Trevino, M. Brown, L. Pincus-Hartman, "A qualitative investigation of perceived executive ethical leadership: Perceptions from inside and outside the executive suite", Human Relations, 1/1/2003, 56, 5-37.
L. Trevino, L. Hartman and M. Brown, "Moral person and moral manager: How executives develop a reputation for ethical leadership", California Management Review, 1/1/2000, 42, 128-142.
L. Trevino, G.R. Weaver and P. Cochran, "Integrated and decoupled corporate social performance: Management commitments, external pressures, and corporate ethics practices", Academy of Management Journal, 1/1/1999, 42, 539-552.
L. Trevino, D. McCabe and K. Butterfield, "Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research", Ethics and Behavior, 1/1/2002, 11, 219-232.
Education
Ph.D.,
Management,
Texas A&M University ,
1987
Courses
BA504, Ethical leadership
MGMT 528, Seminar in organizational behavior
MGMT 451W, Business, Ethics, & Society