Dr. Bob Kolodinsky Assistant Professor, Management Department Director, Gilliam Center for Ethical Business Leadership Office:  ZSH 644 Phone:  (540) 568-3014 Email:  kolodirw@jmu.edu

Recent Courses Taught
COB 202 - Interpersonal Skills
MGT 365 - Human Resource Management
MGT 465 – Senior seminar: Current Issues in Human Resources Management
MGT 498e - Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
MBA 600 - Organizational Behavior

Education
Ph.D. - Florida State University - Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management
M.S./Ed.S. - Florida State University - Counseling and Human Systems
B.A. - Albright College - Business Economics and Accounting

Research and Professional Interests
Dr. Kolodinsky’s primary research interests include wisdom in organizations, business ethics, leadership, spiritual issues in the workplace, social effectiveness and social influence processes in organizations, and organizational politics. He has published several book chapters and articles in such journals as Journal of Management and Journal of Vocational Behavior, and papers on which he was the primary author have won Best Paper awards at two academic conferences. He also is one of the primary instructors in the United Nations Demining Program (UNDP) Senior Managers Course, a five-week program that enriches the management skills of senior managers from countries struggling with the problems associated with land mine removal and civil unrest.

Key Recent Publications
Kolodinsky, R.W., Ferris, G.R., & Treadway, D. (in press). Political skill and influence effectiveness: Testing portions of an expanded Ferris and Judge (1991) model. Human Relations.

Kolodinsky, R.W., Giacalone, R.A., & Jurkiewicz, C.L. (in press). Workplace Values and Outcomes: Exploring Personal, Organizational, and Interactive Workplace Spirituality. Journal of Business Ethics.

Miller, B.K., Rutherford, M., & Kolodinsky, R.W. (in press). Outcomes associated with perceptions of organizational politics: A meta-analysis. Journal of Business & Psychology.

Ritchie, W.J., Kolodinsky, R.W., & Eastwood, K. (2007). Does Executive Intuition Matter?: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship with Nonprofit Organization Financial Performance. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36(1), 140-155.

Bierly, P.E., & Kolodinsky, R.W. (in press): Towards a wisdom-based approach to strategic management. In E.H. Kessler and J.R. Bailey (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Kolodinsky, R.W. (in press). Wisdom and human resource management ethics: An initial discourse. In J. Deckop (Ed.), Human Resource Management Ethics (part of the business ethics series “Ethics in Practice”). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

Ferris, G.R., Treadway, D.C., Kolodinsky, R.W., Hochwarter, W.A, Kacmar, C. J., Douglas, C., & Frink, D.D. (2005). Development and validation of the political skill inventory. Journal of Management, 31(1): 1-28.

Kolodinsky, R.W., Hochwarter, W.A., & Ferris, G.R. (2004). Nonlinearity in the relationship between political skill and job satisfaction and job tension: Convergent evidence from three studies. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65 (2): 294-308.

Recent Campus and Community Involvement
Committee member & Presidential Nominee, the Madison Commission.
Committee member, Institutional Review Board.
Instructor, United Nations Demining Program (UNDP) Senior Managers Course.
Course director, COB 202 (Interpersonal Skills)

Professional Experience
Dr. Kolodinsky is a three-time small business owner and a small business founder. He has performed management roles in a variety of industries, including health care, computer software, and commercial real estate.