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Faculty Profile
Dr. Henry (Hank) Sims is
Professor of Management &
Organization, and former
Director, Ph.D. Program, at the
University of Maryland's Smith
School of Business. He recently
served as Fulbright Fellow and
Visiting Professor at Hong Kong
Baptist University. He was the
founding Academic Director of
the Human Resources Management
Program at Penn State
University. Previously with The
Pennsylvania State University;
Indiana University; University
of California, Irvine; Stanford
University, and George Mason
University. Dr. Sims' business
experience includes employment
at the Ford Motor Company (as
Corporate Staff Management
Consultant, Project Engineer,
Design Engineer, and Skilled
Trades Supervisor) and at the
U.S. Steel Corporation and Armco
Steel Corporation (as management
trainee). Dr. Sims is also a
past President of the Eastern
Academy of Management and past
Chair of the Research Methods
Division of the Academy of
Management. Dr. Sims is the
coauthor of 7 books that have
been translated into several
foreign languages, including
The New SuperLeadership: Leading
Others to Lead Themselves,
the revolutionary best-selling
book about executive leadership.
Dr. Sims' work is based on a
career of research and writing
about leadership and teamwork,
and he has published over 120
articles.
Primary Research
Areas
- Human Resources
Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Leadership and Teams
Selected
Publications
- Charles C. Manz & Henry P.
Sims, Jr., The New
SuperLeadership: Leading Others
to Lead Themselves
- Henry P. Sims, Jr. and
Charles C. Manz, Company of
Heroes: Unleashing the Power of
Self-Leadership, Wiley, 1996
- Greg Stewart, Charles C.
Manz, & Henry P. Sims, Jr.
Team Work and Group Dynamics,
Wiley & Sons, 1998
- Henry P. Sims, Jr. and Dennis
A. Gioia Jossey-Bass, 1986 The Thinking Organization:
Dynamics of Organizational
Social Cognition
- Smith, K.G., Smith, K.A.
Olian, J.D., Sims, H.P. Jr.,
O'Banon, D.P., & Scully, J.A.
Top managment team demography
and process: The role of social
integration and communication.
Administrative Science
Quarterly. 1994, Vol. 39,
pp. 412-438.
Honors and
Awards
- Winner of the 1989
Styble-Peabody Award for best
book in human resources for his
book SuperLeadership
Consulting Work
- Well-known for his keynote
speeches, and full-day or
two-day workshops on the topic
of leadership and teams
- These workshops are
characterized by Dr. Sims'
highly interactive/participative
style of presentation, and his
innovative use of short-segment
videotape scenarios
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