The Psychologist Manager: Success Models for Psychologists in Executive Positions

Psychologists working in management :why and how, opportunities and challenges This unique book explores the challenges and opportunities for psychologists entering leadership and management roles, whether in NGOs, commercial, health, or other organizations. It examines the motivations and advantages of psychologists in management, their potential limitations and ways to overcome them, and also provides practical career advice. The main points are vividly illustrated by exemplary profiles of real-life psychologist careers and brief vignettes.

Dr. Kelly is a professor of Strategy at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University in San Diego, California. She has a PhD in strategic management from Concordia University, Montreal. She specializes in international strategic entrepreneurship research- looking at top management teams, from a social networks perspective, in developing countries such as Vietnam, Kenya and Mexico. She has published widely in the area of top management team leadership in such journals as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Management Decision Making and the Journal of World Business. She is co- author of An Existential Systems Approach to Managing Organizations (Quorum Press 1998). Dr. Kelly has consulted for many firms in Canada, US, Mexico, Kenya and Vietnam. She is a co-founder of GlobalMind Center for Strategic Consulting and has recently been designated an Outstanding scholar by the US federal government based on her international scholarship and publications.

Jay M. Finkelman, PhD, ABPP, is the Systemwide Associate Dean, Professor and Program Director of the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management s (MGSM), Organizational Psychology Programs. Previously he was Executive Vice President of Lenox-Artcarved, Station Manager of KTVU Television (Channel 2) in San Francisco, Vice President of Walt Disney Television, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Kelly Temporary Services Metro Markets Division. He also served as a management consultant and expert witness in employment, staffing and human resources management. He has had hundreds of retentions and depositions as an expert witness, and testified at trial 43 times. He has published widely in the top journals in his field including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Factors, Journal of Consulting Psychology, and The Psychologist-Manager Journal, and has repeatedly served as a Special Issue Editor. He is the author of over seventy publications and has been elected as the incoming Chair of California Psychological Association s Division III: Industrial and Organizational Psychology.