Mount St. Joseph University Distinguished Scholar Award — John Ballard, Ph.D., Professor of Management
This award, presented to an Associate or full Professor, recognizes the skill and contributory aspect of his or her career as a distinguished scholar who has been nationally and/or internationally recognized for scholarly achievement.
John Ballard, our 2016 Distinguished Scholar, is Professor of Management in the School of Business. He is recognized nationally and internationally as a management scholar. In the 1990s John pioneered foundational studies in organizational smoking policies. Later he became a recognized scholar in designing organizations, and still later with colleagues he pursued Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and presentations, John’s scholarship has been significant and continuous.
For historians he created the Joseph Juran project, salvaging the files of a PBS special on Dr. Juran. These files contained extensive interview videos with 30 major business leaders mostly in the United States and Japan. In so doing, John gave the world a lost video of a young Steve Jobs that has been viewed over 70,000 times on YouTube.
In the past five years John’s main scholarship has focused on reducing the gap between management scholars and management practitioners. John has worked to reduce this gap through blogs, guest blogs, tweets, and most recently the publication of his book, Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations. The Midwest Book Review said, "Decoding the Workplace is as informed and informative a read as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking. (It) should be considered critically important reading for anyone working in a corporate environment." Gregg Popovich, Head Coach of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, endorsed saying “(it) should help anyone improve his or her ‘people IQ.’” Decoding the Workplace breaks new ground creatively. It is the first book with a scholarly organizational behavior foundation written with easy readability specifically for people in the workplace.
From News at Mount St. Joseph University
This award, presented to an Associate or full Professor, recognizes the skill and contributory aspect of his or her career as a distinguished scholar who has been nationally and/or internationally recognized for scholarly achievement.
John Ballard, our 2016 Distinguished Scholar, is Professor of Management in the School of Business. He is recognized nationally and internationally as a management scholar. In the 1990s John pioneered foundational studies in organizational smoking policies. Later he became a recognized scholar in designing organizations, and still later with colleagues he pursued Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and presentations, John’s scholarship has been significant and continuous.
For historians he created the Joseph Juran project, salvaging the files of a PBS special on Dr. Juran. These files contained extensive interview videos with 30 major business leaders mostly in the United States and Japan. In so doing, John gave the world a lost video of a young Steve Jobs that has been viewed over 70,000 times on YouTube.
In the past five years John’s main scholarship has focused on reducing the gap between management scholars and management practitioners. John has worked to reduce this gap through blogs, guest blogs, tweets, and most recently the publication of his book, Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations. The Midwest Book Review said, "Decoding the Workplace is as informed and informative a read as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking. (It) should be considered critically important reading for anyone working in a corporate environment." Gregg Popovich, Head Coach of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, endorsed saying “(it) should help anyone improve his or her ‘people IQ.’” Decoding the Workplace breaks new ground creatively. It is the first book with a scholarly organizational behavior foundation written with easy readability specifically for people in the workplace.
From News at Mount St. Joseph University