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Developing Measures for Your Dissertation
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Biography

Dr. Lambert is a Professor and a William S. Spears Chair of Business. Her scholarship has focused on the employment relationship, leadership, psychological contracts, person-environment fit theory, and research methods and has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, and Psychological Methods. Dr. Lambert has served as Chair of the Research Methods Division of Academy of Management and is President-Elect of the Southern Management Association. She is Co-Editor for Organizational Research Methods and has served on editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Business and Psychology. She is a frequent instructor for the Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) and SMA Fellow.

Biography

Dr. David Scheaf called Columbus, Ohio home until he left for North Carolina to attend college at Queens University of Charlotte. He met his wife, Courtney, at Queens University of Charlotte and they dated for 6 years before getting married during his final year of graduate school. Dr. Scheaf attended UNC Charlotte for graduate school where he received his M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Ph.D. in Organizational Science with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship. After he received his Ph.D., Courtney and Dr. Scheaf moved to Waco where he started his first Assistant Professorship at Baylor University. Courtney and Dr. Scheaf recently welcomed their son—James—to their family. Their little family couldn’t be happier living in Waco and being part of the Baylor community.

Dr. Scheaf just wrapped up his second year as an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship. He actually wears two hats as an Assistant Professor — researcher and teacher. To be completely honest, he loves both! Being in the classroom was his primary motivation for choosing a career in academia. He is passionate about challenging students to think critically and he loves watching them get to those personal ah-ha moments.

Biography

Dr. Rong Su is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship and the Mahoney Fellow at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. She is one of the five inaugural recipients of the Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award. An organizational and quantitative psychologist, Dr. Su’s research focuses on gender and diversity in organizations, career success and career inequalities, individual differences, person-environment fit, and quantitative research methods (in particular, meta-analysis, psychometric measurement, structural equation modeling, and large-scale data analytics). Her work has appeared in top-tier psychology and management journals including Psychological Bulletin, Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. Her publications have been featured by national and international media outlets including Time and The New York Times and are broadly cited, placing her within the top 2% most impactful scientists within her subfield in 2021 and in 2022. Dr. Su has concluded eleven grant-funded research projects to date in the role of PI or Co-PI totaling 1.2 million dollars and is the recent recipient of another research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) using a big data approach to examine gender gaps in scientific research. Beyond her own research, Dr. Su has served as a research consultant for a number of organizations, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Army, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Currently, she also serves as an Associate Editor for Psychological Bulletin, a top-tier journal in the field of psychology for publishing high-impact, systematic research syntheses and reviews (impact factor = 22.4).