Advances in Global Leadership Vol.7

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William H. Mobley is visiting chair professor of management at the University of Macau. Also, he is professor emeritus of management at China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. He is chairman of Mobley Group Pacific Ltd. (MGP), focusing on: executive assessment for selection and development; executive coaching; organizational design, culture, and effectiveness; and chairman of WGP Investments (Shanghai) Ltd. focused on China business entry and development and early stage investment in China technology based businesses. He earned his BA degree in psychology and economics from Denison University in the United States and his Ph.D. degree in organizational psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Mobley has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Americans in Pueblo, Mexico, the University of Akron, and is an honorary professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has served as a visiting professor at National Taiwan University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and as a visiting fellow at Cornell University. He is author of Employee Turnover: Causes, Consequences and Control (Addison Wesley) and multiple papers in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Harvard Business Review China, among others. He is executive editor of Advances in Global Leadership (Emerald Group Publishing). He is a registered organizational psychologist in Hong Kong and a fellow of APA, APS, and the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Bill previously served as corporate manager of HR research and succession planning for PPG Industries, dean of the College of Business Administration, and later became president and chancellor of Texas A&M University where he is now president emeritus. He has resided in Greater China for the past 16 years.