JOYCE OSLAND - BIO
Professor Joyce Osland is a specialist in international management with a focus on global leadership and Latin American management. She has lived and worked overseas for fourteen years in seven different countries, mainly in Latin America and West Africa. Professor Osland received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. She taught in the MBA program and executive education programs at INCAE (The Central American Institute of Business Administration) in Costa Rica from 1989-1992. She was a faculty member of the University of Portland from 1992 until 2002 when she accepted a professor position at San Jose State University. Dr. Osland has received both teaching and research awards, most recently the Dean’s Academic Research Award and the Graduate Teaching Award at San Jose State University. A former president of the Western Academy of Management, she won that organization's Ascendant Scholar Award and the Joan Dahl President's Leadership Award.
Dr. Osland is a visiting professor in the master’s and Executive MBA programs at various universities in the United States and abroad. In addition, she does executive education programs and consults with companies and non-profits on organizational effectiveness and global leadership.
Professor Osland is an active researcher and has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Army Research Institute since 2005. Her current research interests include the identification and development of cognitive processes of expert global leaders, trigger events in cultural sensemaking, expert cognition in intercultural experts, repatriate knowledge transfer, and the merger of a city and university library.
Dr. Osland has published over fifty articles, chapters and cases on international management. She wrote The Adventure of Working Abroad: Hero Tales from the Global Frontier, (Jossey-Bass, 1995), a book that describes the transformational experience of expatriates, and co-authors two popular textbooks in their eighth edition.
Dr. Osland has taught courses in
the Universidad Católica's EMBA program in Paraguay,
the University
of South Carolina's Faculty Development in International Business Program
J. Osland & A. Bird. (2000) “Beyond Sophisticated Stereotyping: Cultural Sensemaking in Context,” Academy of Management Executive, vol. 14(1): 65-77.
N. Adler, L. Brody & J. Osland. (2000) “The Women’s Global Leadership Forum: Enhancing One Global
Leadership Capability.” Human Resource Management, vol. 39 (2&3): 209-225.
J. Osland & S. Taylor. (February, 2001). “Developing Global Leaders,” HR.Com.
N. J. Adler, L. W. Brody and J. S. Osland. (2001). “Going Beyond Twentieth Century Leadership: A CEO Develops His Company’s Global Competitiveness,” Cross-Cultural Management: An International Journal, 8(3/4): 11-32.
J. Osland. (2003) “Broadening the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Globalization,” Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(2): 137-154. #1, The 50 Most-Frequently Read Articles.
M. Mendenhall, I. Ehnert, T. Kühlmann, G. Oddou, J. Osland & G. Stahl. (2004) “Evaluation Studies of Cross-Cultural Training Programs: A Review of the Literature from 1988-2000.” In Handbook of intercultural Training, 3rd edition, D. Landis, J. Bennett & M. Bennett (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage: 129-143.
J. Osland, A. Bird, M. Maznevski, C. Scholz, J. McNett, M. Mendenhall, V. Stein, & D. Weyer. (2004) “Global Reality with Virtual Teams: Lessons from the Geographically Distant Multicultural Teams Project.” In The Cutting Edge of International Management Education, Volume Two, C. Wankel & R. DeFillippi (Eds.). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing: 115-141.
J. Osland and A. Osland. (2005-2006) “Expatriate Paradoxes and Cultural Involvement,” International Studies of Management & Organization 35(4): 93-116.
A. Bird and J. Osland. (2005-2006) “Making Sense of Intercultural Collaboration,” International Studies of Management & Organization 35(4): 117-135.
A. Osland and J. Osland. (2006) “Contextualization and Strategic International Human Resource Management Approaches –- The Case of Central America and Panama,” The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(12): 2218 – 2236.
J. Osland and A. Bird. (2006) “Global Leaders as Experts.” In Advances in Global Leadership, Vol. 4, W. Mobley & E. Weldon, (Eds.). Oxford: Elsevier: 123-142.
J. Osland, A. Bird, M. Mendenhall, A. Osland. (2006) “Developing Global Leadership Capabilities and Global Mindset: A Review.” In International Human Resources Handbook. G. Stahl & I. Bjorkman (Eds.) London: Elgar: 197-222.
A. Osland & J. Osland. (2007) Best Practices Icon But Still At Risk: The Case of Aracruz Celulose. International Journal of Manpower, 28(5): 435-450.
J. Osland, A. Bird, A. Osland & G. Oddou. (2007) “Expert Cognition in Global Leaders.” NDM8 Conference Proceedings, Monterey, CA.
G. Oddou, J. Osland, & R. Blakeney. (in press) “Repatriating Knowledge: Variables Influencing the “transfer” Process.” Journal of International Business Studies.
C. Reade, A. Todd, A. Osland & J. Osland, (in press) “Poverty and the Multiple Stakeholder Challenge for Global Leaders” Journal of Management Education.
Recent Books
J. Osland, M. Turner, D. Kolb & I. Rubin. (2007). The Organizational Behavior Reader. 8th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
J. Osland, D. Kolb, I. Rubin & M. Turner. (2007). Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach. 8th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
M. Mendenhall, J. Osland, A. Bird, G. Oddou & M. Maznevski. (in press). Global Leadership: Research, Practice, and Development. London: Routledge.
Global
Leadership consulting - academic advisor for global leadership
development programs and delivered workshops on various aspects of global
leadership. Helped design and implement the first-ever global women’s leadership
forum and change effort
at Bestfoods International.
Executive training workshops - numerous programs in
both English and Spanish in various countries on team-building, conflict
management, intercultural communication, global leadership,
managing change, organizational development, outdoor leadership challenge
programs (ropes courses) and training-of-trainer workshops. Clients have included: General Motors, Black
& Decker, Standard Fruit, World Intellectual Property Organization (United
Nations), and the Honduran Congress.
Organizational Development consulting -
conducted employee interviews, surveys, or reverse evaluations and then
presented an analysis of organizational problems and recommendations, and in
some cases continued with further interventions such as teambuilding. Clients, located in the United States and
Latin America, include the Boykin Corporation, Tropical Agricultural
Center of Investigation and Teaching (Costa Rica), Chiquita Banana, and
Hospital San Juan de Dios (Guatemala).
Strategic Planning Workshops - facilitated planning
for reforestation
lobbying groups in Costa Rica and facilitated the establishment of an integrated
tourism strategy for Costa Rica with the Minister of Tourism and representatives
of the tourism industry.
Women's Leadership Training - designed a series of annual workshops for female executives in Latin America that were based on research on their career issues and training needs and taught seminars for the Women's Center for Applied Leadership in Portland, Oregon.