JAMES S. RUSSELL

401 NE 19th St. # 4
East Wenatchee, WA 98802
509-886-3700
FAMILY
Married to Karen since 11/29/63
Children: Lynne (3 grandsons), Keith (Two grandaughters), & Pam

INTERESTS
Tennis, skiing, hiking, Rotary, community service particularly in housing and literacy, writing, story telling, ballroom dancing, travel, real estate and stock investing.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D.
  Michigan State University,
  1982 Major: Personnel and Human Resources; Organizational Behavior
• M.B.A.
  University of Michigan, 1965
  Major: Business
• B.A.
  Albion College, 1963
  Major: Economics
  Minor: Mathematics

STORY TELLING

• Published: God, What Are We Going to Do? Adventures in Children's Faith.
  Written by James S. Russell & told by "Grampa and Grammy Russell."
  Contact First United Methodist Church of Wenatchee, 663-1607, www.firstumchurch.org
• Churches: Story teller for the children in church service before they are released to their Sunday school and in Sunday School. Told stories at Michigan boy scout camps or Indian Guides.
• Teaching: Told stories to teach students that as business people they will make decisions in a context of conflicting values.
• Work: Recognized faculty and support staff by story telling at the Board of Trustees or college staff functions.
• Family: Told stories that revolved around where we were as a family, including the "Mighty Muck Monster" and the "Great Winged Night Nose Scratcher."

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2001 - Present Retired and writing stories
• 1991 to 2001 Dean, Business and Computer Technology Division,
  Mt. Hood Community College
• 1987 to 1991 Associate Professor, Business and Administrative Studies,
  Lewis and Clark College
• 1982 to 1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, College Of Business Administration, University of Oregon
• 1980 to 1982 Held various teaching positions at Michigan State University and University of Michigan, Flint
• 1976 to 1980 Instructor/Coordinator, Industrial Management Program, Lansing Community College

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 1971 to 1976 Executive Director, Industrial Expansion Commission, Muskegon, Michigan, and Coordinator, Muskegon Area Labor Management Program.
• 1965 to 1971 IBM Marketing Representative, Computers, Industrial Applications, Toledo, Ohio & Muskegon, Michigan.

HONORS

• Sigma Iota Epsilon, Graduate Honorary Academic Fraternity
• Recipient of two fellowships, Michigan State University
• OB Doctoral Consortium, Detroit, 1980
• Distinguished Service Award, Muskegon (Michigan) Jaycees, 1975
  "Amigo Award" for service to the Hispanic community in Muskegon
  Four Avenues of Service and Presidential Citation for Rotary
  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Editorial Board, CAUSE/EFFECT
• Data Processing Management Association
• Society of Information Managers
• Academy of Management
• American Psychological Association
• American Society of Personnel Administrators
• The Planning Forum
• Vice President of Communications, Portland Chapter
  

COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS AND ROLES

• Rotary: President, Paul Harris Fellow,
• Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Wenatchee Area
• Habitat for Humanity: President and Co-founder, Mt. Hood Habitat
• Habitat for Humanity: Treasurer, Grant writer for Willamette West
  Community Boards
  

EDITIORIAL AND REVIEW ACTIVITIES

• Editorial Board for CAUSE, the national college information systems journal
• Occasional reviewer for Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Occupational
• Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior,
  and Division of Social and Economic Science,
  National Science Foundation
  

INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Undergraduate Courses: Business Strategy, Business and Society, Human Resources Management, Career Management, Compensation, Collective Bargaining, Organizational Behavior, Supervision, Training and Development, Basic Inquiry, Microsoft Office Applications, Investments
• Graduate Courses and Seminars: Human Resources Management, Training and Development, Selection and Recruitment, Quality of Work Life Current Issues in Human Resources Management,
• Visiting Professor: Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration, March, 1987
  

SUMMARY

My professional interests have included security investments, business policy, personnel and human resources, industrial relations, community development, and corporate social responsibility. I have pursued research in personnel selection, performance appraisal, training, public, and private sector labor relations, quality of work life, and business policy. My work experience includes marketing data processing equipment and applications for IBM, community development in industrial development, joint labor and management and quality of work life consulting, grant writing, and teaching and training with private industry, community colleges, and universities.

GRANT ACTIVITIES

• Grant writer and treasurer (all volunteer efforts) for two Habitat for Humanity affiliates where we raised over three hundred thousand dollars in funding for housing projects from governmental and private sources.
• Grant writer for funds to buy a computer for Mano-a-Mano community service organization of migrant farm workers in Oregon.
• Principal investigator for $120,000 grant to the National Institute of Handicapped. Research for grant entitled "Examination of Existing Data to Predict the Validity and Utility of Job Performance for Persons with Mental Retardation." October 1, 1986-September, 1988.
• Grant administrator for $25,000 research grant funded by the National Institute of Education. The study identified key behaviors by secondary principals that were linked to characteristics of effective schools.
• Worked under a U.S. Department of Education Personnel Preparation Grant to apply human resources management research and techniques to assist in the transition of developmentally disabled people into competitive work.
• Grant application included in the application to the National Institute of Education by the College of Education for a center on the study of effective secondary schools.
• Wrote and was awarded two federal grants of $150,000 and $50,000 to fund two area labor management committees in Muskegon and Lansing, Michigan.

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

• Consultant - medium size franchising organization that redesigned its hiring and development policies.
  
• Member - Planning Committee for Northwest Area Labor-Management Cooperation Symposium.
  
• Trainer- developed and conducted training programs for middle management.
  
• Consultant - led team to develop long-range business strategies and linking them to organizational structure and human resource needs in a small growing company.
  
• Consultant- assist in development of long-range business strategies for the merger of two professional organizations.
  
• Trainer - conducted and developed Behavioral Modeling Training Programs for first-line supervisors and middle managers in local government and private industry.
  
• Consultant - designed and conducted attitude surveys and feedback intervention for quality of work life program in large private industry.
  
• Job Analyst - designed job analyses procedure for first-line supervisors in industrial plant with purpose of establishing performance appraisal system.
  
• Coordinator - Joint Labor/Management Committee for the Lansing Area Quality of Work Life Program. Coordinated the management interests with a labor leader for an area labor management committee.

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