Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Ruth Axelrod Adjunct Faculty Ph.D., George Washington University Phone: (301) 698-0513 E-mail: raxelrod@umd.edu

Ruth teaches at The George Washington University, The University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, the University of Maryland University College and Hood College.  Her primary field is organizational behavior and development with specialties in leadership and small group dynamics.  Prior to becoming an academic, she had more than 15 years' experience in business management and continues to work as an independent consultant facilitating organizational development through process facilitation for strategic and business planning, managerial leadership development and team building.
 
Ruth earned B.A., Master of Health Services Administration, and Ph.D. degrees at GWU.  She has a wide range of scholarly interests including the role of general interpersonal trust in decision-making, the effects of gender and cultural differences in work groups, experiential learning in the classroom, management education in a liberal arts environment and leadership development for women.  Having grown up as an expatriate American in India, one of the themes running through her work is a passion for understanding the cultural roots of human behavior in the workplace and testing the cross-cultural applicability of social psychology, leadership and management theories.