Joyce E. A. Russell, PhD

Dean Emeritus, Villanova School of Business | Professor of Management Villanova School of Business | Villanova University

  • Villanova PA

Joyce E. A. Russell, PhD, has vast expertise in leadership and management development, negotiation and executive coaching.

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Areas of Expertise

Business
Women in Business
Leadership
Psychology
Negotiations
Career Coaching
Executive Coaching
Management Development
Industrial & Organizational Psychologist
Business Education

Biography

Joyce E. A. Russell, PhD, served as the Helen and Willian O’Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business and Professor of Management from 2016-2023, during which time VSB experienced tremendous success. Under her direction, VSB strengthened faculty scholarship and teaching; enhanced programming for undergraduate, graduate and executive students; and created an Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion based on Villanova’s Augustinian Catholic mission. Dr. Russell also worked to upgrade classrooms, labs and study spaces; expand connections with alumni and employers; and maintain strong fundraising, helping VSB to strengthen its reputation as an international leader in business education. She has been named dean emeritus and will remain at Villanova University as a professor of management.

Additionally, she is a licensed industrial and organizational psychologist and has more than 35 years of experience consulting with both private and public sector organizations. Her expertise is primarily in the areas of leadership and management development, negotiation tactics, executive coaching and change management.

Education

The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

PhD

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

MA

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland

BA

Psychology

Cum Laude

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Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence

Selected three times for the Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland.

Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Tennessee National Alumni Association

Received the Outstanding Teaching Award from The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association.

UT Chancellor’s Award

Received the University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Team Development and Team Teaching of the Integrated MBA Curriculum.

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Affiliations

  • Academy of Management
  • Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology
  • Association for Talent Development
  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • Forum of Executive Women

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Leaders: To Retain Employees, You Need To Invest In Emotional Compensation

Forbes  online

2023-08-16

People have a strong desire for affiliation—to feel cared for, heard and listened to, to be seen, and to be treated fairly and with respect. This can come from their peers, but also their leaders.

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So, You’re Ready To Take On The World: Tips For New College Grads

Forbes  online

2023-06-12

Tips for standing out at work when you start a new job include: showing initiative, demonstrating high performance, and being collaborative and positive.

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Leadership Is More Than Just Efficiency And Processes

Forbes  online

2023-04-10

Leadership is about more than simply efficiency, and machines can't replace them all. We need authentic, positive, empathetic leaders for employees to be at their peak morale and performance.

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The “How To” Guide to Millennial Talent: Thought Leaders Share Their Views on the Hr Profession and Its Direction for the Future

Strategic HR Review

2016

Attracting and retaining Millennial talent is a hot topic right now. The trick to finding and keeping the best talent is to understand what drives them personally and professionally. This year, Adecco conducted two major pieces of research to provide insight into how best-in-class companies attract talent and to learn the perspectives that Millennials and Gen Z have around the workplace.

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Understanding Managerial Development: Integrating Developmental Assignments, Learning Orientation, and Access to Developmental Opportunities in Predicting Managerial Competencies

Academy of Management

Lisa Dragoni, Paul E. Tesluk, Joyce E. A. Russell and In-Sue Oh

2009

Integrating the work experience, leadership development, and learning literatures, we developed and tested a model of managerial development linking experience in highly developmental assignments, a learning goal orientation, and access to developmental assignments. Based on multisource data on early-career managers, our results demonstrate that the developmental quality of managerial assignments has a positive association with end-state competencies that exceeds the association explained by tenure. Furthermore, we found that managers with stronger learning orientations, especially those with access to growth assignments, were more likely to be in developmental assignments and achieve higher levels of competence based on those experiences.

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Promoting Subjective Well-Being at Work

Journal of Career Assessment

Joyce E. A. Russell

2008

Research has clearly shown the relationship between subjective well-being and work performance, even though there is debate over the causality of that relationship (i.e., does subjective well-being cause higher work performance or does greater work performance lead to subjective well-being?). Regardless, researchers and practitioners would agree that having employees who are productive and have high subjective well-being is valuable. The purpose of this article is to review research in this area and to discuss strategies for promoting well-being at the workplace.

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