Erik R. Eddy

Erik Eddy is an Professor of Management at Siena College. Erik’s primary teaching areas include strategic planning, human resource management, and organizational development and change.  Erik also conducts research on a variety of topics including mentoring, leadership, and employee participation in personal business (e.g., personal e-mail, conversations with colleagues) during work hours.

Erik received a bachelor of business administration from James Madison University in 1990, master degrees in business administration and organizational development from Bowling Green State University in 1993 and a doctor of philosophy from University at Albany (SUNY) in 1997.

Prior to joining the Siena College faculty in 2004, Erik worked from 1995 to 2004 at a local management consulting firm – The Group for Organizational Effectiveness – first as a consultant then as a project leader. Erik worked to support organizations in their organizational development, change management, management/employee development, and knowledge management efforts. A few sample projects included facilitating strategic planning to build managerial talent at Core Staffing Services; helping guide a team of internal experts at Tiffany & Co. to develop a certification program for their sales and operations professionals; facilitating working sessions with U.S. Air Force fighter pilots to identify the “Mission Essential Competencies” required to be successful; and researching the requisite characteristics of successful mentoring programs at the U.S. Navy. 

My Siena Experience

My Teaching Philosophy

I believe that my role as a teacher is to help students learn subject matter content, learn how to apply their learnings to unique situations, and develop their capacity to learn on their own.

First, in helping students learn the subject matter content, I believe that learning is preferable to memorizing. As Ken Bain put it in his recent book, “What the Best College Teachers Do,” I am aiming for deep, sustained, substantial learning rather than bulimic learning where students memorize and regurgitate facts for the text. 

Second, in helping students learn how to apply their learnings to unique situations, I use a case study or work with a local organization that allow students to demonstrate what they’ve learned in business situations. 

Finally, it is important for me to realize that I can not teach students everything I want them to know in one semester (and that they can not remember it all if I tried). Therefore, part of my role is to help them learn what they “need to know” and help them learn “how to find what they need” after they have left my class. 

I truly enjoy working with the students and challenging them to take their learning to a higher level. My hope is that the students accept this challenge and grow from the experience. As I set high standards for my students, it is always important for me to support them in this process and facilitate their learning at every turn. 

What I Love About Siena

I enjoy working at Siena because of the students. The small class size, along with the close-knit community, make for a wonderful teaching experience. 

My Favorite Courses to Teach

I enjoy teaching BUDV450 (Organizational Strategy) because it challenges students to perform at a high level. I enjoy teaching MGMT425 (Leading Change) because it helps students become better prepared for their job as a manager. 

My Professional Experience

Current Research

Research interests include continuous learning, mentoring, and other on-the-job developmental interactions.

Articles & Book Reviews

• How do work values impact work ethic? Model development and preliminary validation of a work ethic attenuation scale.
  International Academy of Business and Economics Annual Conference
  2023
• How do work values impact work ethic? Model development and preliminary validation of a work ethic attenuation scale.
  Journal of Academy of Business and Economics
  2023
• Mother Myrick's Confectionery
  Open Access Teaching Case Journal
  2023
• The importance of shared cognitions of team member expertise on building a high performing team
  Team Performance Management: An International Journal
  2023
• The Baby Boomer-Gen Z Work Ethic Divide
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  January, 2022
• The impact of enhanced teammate evaluations on important individual and team outcomes
  Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, vol. 9
  October, 2019
• A Next Step in Student Teamwork Pedagogies: Teaching and Supporting Teamwork Dynamics
  Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, vol. 29
  July, 2018
• Using student teams in the classroom: How online versus paper and pencil teammate evaluations impact important team member outcomes
  Academic and Business Research Institute
  January, 2018
• Factors Contributing to Student Engagement in an Instructional Facebook Group for Undergraduate Mathematics.
  Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, vol. 35
  July, 2016
• Exploring Student Team Pedagogies Across the Higher Education Curriculum
  Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching
  February, 2015
• The relationship between enduring leadership and organizational performance
  Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 35
  September, 2014
• The Instructional Network: Using Facebook to Enhance Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction
  Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, vol. 33
  January, 2014
• Mother Myricks Confectionary
  North American Case Research Association -- Annual Meeting
  October, 2013
• Helping teams to help themselves: Comparing two self-guided debriefing methods
  Personnel Psychology
  2013
• The Impact of Mentoring on Employee Attitudes, Competencies, and Performance
  International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB)
  January, 2011
• Explaining Engagement in Personal Activities on Company Time
  Personnel Review, vol. 39
  September, 2010
• Mentoring as a Learning Tool: Enhancing the Effectiveness of an Undergraduate Business Mentoring Program
  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, vol. 16
  December, 2008
• Personal and Professional Leadership in Government Agencies
  Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 29
  June, 2008
• Key Characteristics of Effective and Ineffective Developmental Interactions
  Human Resource Development Quarterly, vol. 17
  2006
• The Impact of Personal and Professional Leadership on Employee Willing Cooperation, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment: A Study of a Government Agency
  Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  May, 2005
• The Impact of National Culture on the Continuous Learning Environment: Exploratory Findings from Multiple Countries
  Journal Of East-West Business, vol. 12
  2005
• The Importance of Personal and Professional Leadership
  Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 23
  June, 2004
• What's In a Name? A Literature-Based Approach to Understanding Mentoring, Coaching, and Other Constructs that Describe Developmental Interactions
  Human Resource Development Review, vol. 2
  December, 2003
• Expanding the Training Evaluation Criterion Space: Cross Aircraft Convergence and Lessons Learned from Evaluation of the Air Force Mission Ready Technician Program
  Military Psychology, vol. 15
  January, 2003
• An Organizational Level Examination of the Impact of Personal and Professional Leadership on Willing Cooperation: Direct and Mediated Effects
  Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  2003
• The Importance of the Critical Psychological States in the Job Characteristics Model: A Meta-Analytic and Structural Equations Modeling Examination
  Current Research in Social Psychology, vol. 5
  May, 2000
• The Effects of Information Management Policies on Reactions to Human Resource Information Systems: An Integration of Privacy and Procedural Justice Perspectives
  Personnel Psychology, vol. 52
  June, 1999
• Training Cultures in Asia: Further Insights
  Pan Pacific Conference
  August, 1998
• Factors Affecting the Perceived Fairness of Human Resource Information Systems
  Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  May, 1998
• Privacy and Human Resource Information Systems
  IHRIM Journal, vol. 2
  February, 1998
• The Interactive Effects of Disability, Race and Gender on Job Placement Decisions
  Disabilities Studies Quarterly, vol. 16
  November, 1996
• A Model of Individual and Organizational Factors Affecting Quality-Related Outcomes
  Journal of Quality Management, vol. 1
  January, 1996
• The Effects of Procedural and Individual Factors on Reactions to Honesty Testing
  Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting
  May, 1995
• Engaging in Personal Business on the Job: Extending the Presenteeism Construct
  Human Resource Development Quarterly, vol. 18
  Fall, 2007
• Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless
  Case Research Journal, vol. 33
  Winter, 2013
• Mentoring as an HRD Approach: Effects on employee attitudes and contributions independent of core self evaluation.
  Human Resource Development Quarterly, vol. 23
  Summer, 2012
• The Influence of a Continuous Learning Environment on Peer Mentoring Behaviors
  Journal Of Managerial Issues, vol. 17
  Fall, 2005
• The Relationship between Corporate Ethical Climate and Employee Attitudes
  Academy of Business Disciplines, vol. 9
  Spring, 2016

Awards & Distinctions

• Douglas T. Hickey Chair in Business
  Category: Other
  Siena College, 2015
• Faculty Member of the Year
  Category: Service-University
  Academic and Community Engagement, 2015
• Outstanding Professor Award
  Category: Teaching
  Beta Gamma Sigma, 2015
• Winner, case writing competition
  Category: Research
  Family Enterprise, 2013
• Featured article
  Category: Research
  Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2012
• Research Excellence Award
  Category: Research
  Academy of Human Resource Management, 2012
• Outstanding applied paper
  Category: Research
  IAMB, 2011
• Faculty Mentor - Best Paper Award Siena College Student Conference in Business
  Category: Research
  Faculty Mentor - Best Paper Award Siena College Student Conference in Business, 2009
• School of Business Outstanding Research Award
  Category: Research
  School of Business Outstanding Research Award, 2008
• Outstanding Research Article of the Year
  Category: Research
  Academy of Human Resource Management, 2007
• Research Excellence Award
  Category: Research
  Academy of Human Resource Development, 2007
• Outstanding Empirical Paper Award
  Category: Other
  Eastern Academy of Management, 2005

Books & Book Chapters

• Improving Learning Transfer Systems in Organizations
  Jossey-Bass
  2003
• Team-Based Organizing
  Elsevier
  2003

Presentations

• How do work values impact work ethic?
  2023
  International Academy of Business and Economics Annual Conference, Miami, Florida
• The Baby Boomer – Gen Z Work Ethic Divide
  2022
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington
• Teammate evaluations: Are faculty implementing research-based best practices?
  February, 2020
  Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, San Diego, California
• What are students thinking? Examining the usefulness of teammate evaluations
  March, 2018
  Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Newport Beach, California
• Using student teams in the classroom: How online versus paper-and-pencil teammate evaluations impact important team member outcomes
  2017
  Academic and Business Research Institute, St. Augustine, Florida
• Does Teaching Teamwork Matter? Exploring the Impact of Team Pedagogy in the Classroom
  February, 2016
  Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Newport Beach, California
• Assessing Corporate Ethical Climate and Its Relationship to Job Satisfaction
  November, 2015
  Academy of Business Disciplines Annual Conference, Ft. Myers, Florida
• Mother Myricks Confectionary
  October, 2013
  North American Case Research Association -- Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada-British Columbia
• Using Facebook as an Instructional Network to Enhance Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction
  May, 2013
  Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Bethesda, Maryland
• The importance of mentoring in Insurance Agencies
  October, 2012
  CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) Society, Albany, New York
• The instructional network: Using Facebook to enhance undergraduate mathematics instruction
  June, 2012
  Conference on Instruction and Technology, Stony Brook, NY, Stony Brook, New York
• The instructional network: Using facebook to enhance undergraduate mathematics instruction
  2012
  Conference on Instruction and Technology, Stony Brook, NY, Stony Brook, New York
• Impact of Mentoring on Employee Attitudes, Competencies, and Performance
  January, 2011
  International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB), Orlando, Florida
• Mentoring as a Learning Tool: Enhancing the Effectiveness of an Undergraduate Mentoring Program
  August, 2007
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• On CompanyTime: An Empirical Examination of Why People Engage in Personal Business on the Job
  2007
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Engaging in Personal Business on the Job: Extending the Presenteeism Construct
  August, 2006
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
• What's In a Name? A Literature Based Approach to Exploring the Constructs that Describe Developmental Interactions
  April, 2003
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, Florida
• Team Task Analysis: A Prerequisite for Instructor Technology and Dynamic Assessment
  May, 2001
  University of North Texas Symposium, Denton, Texas
• Goal Orientation and Errors in Training: A Social Cognitive Approach
  April, 2001
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego, California
• An Investigation of the Unique Effects of Peer and Hierarchical Mentoring
  April, 2000
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Influence of Continuous Learning on Peer Mentoring
  April, 2000
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Impact of National Culture on the Continuous Learning Environment: Exploratory Findings from Multiple Countries
  April, 1999
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia
• The Importance of the Critical Psychological State in the Job Characteristics Model: A Meta-Analytic and Structural Equations Modeling Analysis
  April, 1999
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia
• The Effects of Information Management Policies on Reactions to Human Resource Information Systems: An Integration of Privacy and Procedural Justice Perspectives
  August, 1998
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Diego, California
• Computer Technology and Human Resource Management: Functional and Dysfunctional Consequences
  August, 1997
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
• Perceived Invasiveness of Monitoring Systems
  May, 1997
  Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, Texas
• Job-related Stereotypes and Expectancies Ascribed to Persons with Varying Types of Disabilities
  May, 1996
  Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, San Diego, California
• Factors that Influence the Perceived Invasiveness of Biographical Data
  May, 1995
  Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida