Biography

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' 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. He is the author or co-author of twenty-seven books and more than eighty articles that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and practitioner journals.

His most recent books are: Executive ethics: Ethical dilemmas and challenges for the C-suite(2008); Human resources management: Contemporary issues, challenges and opportunities (2007); Learning styles and learning: A key to meeting the accountability demands in education(2006); Human resource development (HRD): Today and tomorrow (2006); 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); and Managing organizational behavior (2002).

Areas of Interest/Expertise

• Organization Change
• Employee Training & Management Development
• Ethics
• Leadership
• Experiential & Adult Learning
• Human Resource Management