Ronald Sims is the Floyd Dewey Gottwald Senior Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the College of William and Mary where he teaches Organization Behavior, Leadership, Business Ethics, Change Management and Human Resource Management.
He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Professor Sims is the author or co-author of twenty-three books and more than eighty articles that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and practitioner journals. His most recent books are: Leadership: Succeeding in the Private, Public and Not-for-profit Sector (2005); Managing School System Change: Charting a Course for Renewal (2004), Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Giants Fall (2003), Organizational Success through Effective Human Resources Management (2002), Changing the Way We Manage Change (2002), Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning (2002), Managing Organizational Behavior (2002), The Challenge of Front-line Management: Flattened Organizations in the New Economy (2000), Keys to Employee Success in the Coming Decades (1999), Administration (1999), Reinventing Training and Development (1998), and Accountability and Radical Change in Public Organizations (1998). His research focuses on a variety of topics to include change management, human resources management, employee training and management development, learning styles, experiential learning, and business ethics. Dr. Sims provides consulting in the areas of change management, human resources management, and employee and leadership development to organizations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.
Areas of Interest / Expertise
- Organization Change
- Employee Training & Management Development
- Ethics
- Leadership
- Experiential & Adult Learning
- Human Resource Management