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Greg Moorhead
Greg Moorhead

gregory.moorhead@thunderbird.edu

Gregory Moorhead is a Visiting Associate Professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management and Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University, following a 33-year career in the Department of Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU. He attended Texas Tech University and the University of Houston. He has a B.S.I.E. and MBA and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and management. He joined the faculty at ASU in 1978 and has taught courses in management principles, human behavior in organizations, management policy and strategy, personnel management, operations management, as well as graduate seminars in organizational behavior and international management.

Dr. Moorhead has taught seminars and graduate courses and worked with businesses in China, Italy, France, Mexico, Slovenia, Macedonia, and other European countries. Working with the International Business Seminar Program, he led student groups to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand to study international business. Dr. Moorhead is a Fellow of the Institute for International Business Studies in Italy.

Dr. Moorhead has written numerous articles that have been published in leading academic and managerial journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Journal of Management Studies and others. His research has concentrated in the fields of groupthink, group decision making, job design, leadership, and organization structure. His first textbook, Organizational Behavior, (South-Western Cengage Learning, 2012), first published in 1986, is in its tenth edition. A second textbook, Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior, (South-Western Cengage Learning, 2010) was first published in 2006.

Dr. Moorhead has been active in working with organizations in strategic planning, redesigning of organization structure, and developing training and development workshops for executives, middle managers, and supervisory personnel. A partial list of clients includes Pulte Homes—Arizona Division, Motorola, QDI, Valley National Bank (now Bank One), Intel, the Washington School District in Arizona, and the Office of the Auditor General of the State of Arizona.

 

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