• Allen and Ruth Harris Chair of Excellence in Business and Professor of Management, College of Business and Technology, East Tennessee State University, 1999-present
  
  
• Dean and Professor of Management, College of Business, East Tennessee State University, 1981-1999
  
  
• Assistant Dean, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1976-1981
  
  
• Coordinator, Human Resources Management Program, and Manpower and Industrial Relations Institute, University of Alabama, 1973-1975
  
  
• Assistant Professor to Professor, University of Alabama, 1968-1981
  
  
• Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, Cornell University, 1964-1968

Other Employment Experience

• Labor Economist, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., Manpower Administration, 1965 and Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1966.
  
  
• Labor Arbitrator, Member, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Roster of Labor Arbitrators (Currently Inactive).
  
  
• Consultant to a number of private and public sector organizations on subjects related to management, organizational structure, personnel practices, affirmative action, labor relations, business school management and AACSB International accreditation.