Diamond Jubilee
Festivities that
mark the glorified celebration of 60 years is being honoured by the presence of
Dr. James A.F.Stoner, Professor of Management Systems in
Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business. He joined Fordham in 1975 and holds
the “James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global
Quality Leadership” established in his honour in 2002.
As
the theme for DJF is ‘Sustainabilty’ it is a prestige to have Dr. Stoner with
us who specializes in the research of Leading
and Managing Global Sustainability; Designing and Creating For-Profit
Enterprises that Contribute to Global Sustainability Management, Spirituality,
and Organizational Excellence Creating Excellent Teams Ontological Inquiry,
Excellence, and Personal and Organizational Transformation. He is a
prolific author with many refereed papers. His three most recent publications
are Fundamentals of Financial
Managing (co-authored with
Dr. Frank Werner), Modern
Financial Managing (also
co-authored with Dr. Frank Werner), and La Gerencia Dominicana (co-authored with Dr. Charles Wankel).
He received the Best Paper-Management Education, Academy of Management
in 1991. His experience includes that of Project Development Officer, Ministry
of Commerce & Industry, Government of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), 1961-63
and Consultant to Arthur D. Little, Bell Labs, Bergen Brunswig Corporation, and
Juran Institute, 1992-94.Professor Stoner has accumulated many academic
laurels. He was named a profesor
honorario by the Universidad
Catolica Santo Domingo, a distinque
profesor by the Asosiación
Dominica de Profesionales en Administración, and an honorific visiting
professor at the Universidad de Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. Stoner is
presently a professor at Fordham University. He is an author and co-author of a
number of books and journal articles, including; Management, six editions, and Introduction
to Business, Scott Foresman; and World-class Managing-Two Pages at a Time (co-author Freeload Press 2010). He is
a member of the Academy of Management and past chair of the Management
Education and Devilment Division, the American
Society for Quality; the Academy of Business Education and the Organizational
Behaviour Teaching Society, the last of which he is a former board member.
In addition to his responsibilities at Fordham, Dr. Stoner advises
several major companies on the movement toward quality management and teaches
in executive seminars on quality and management. He has taught in executive
programs in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
At
Fordham, he is a past recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty
Excellence at the graduate level. He also earned a citation from the Academy of
Management for best paper in management education.
His book on Management continues its
strong research orientation and solid theoretical underpinnings. The general
theme of the 6/E is dynamic engagement--a broad term that captures the essence
of change confronting future managers, and current thinking on what they'll
need to succeed. The material presented revolves around the following themes:
ethics, globalization, entrepreneurship and small businesses, cultural
diversity, and quality.
Here at XISS, we religiously follow his book on
Principles and Practices of Management which has provided us with the very
basic concepts which facilitated better understanding of various management
issues, the various emerging trends supported by Caselets. Hence, the book has
provided us with a very strong foundation towards the basic concepts of
Planning, Organising, Leading, Controlling and Work Place Diversity etc.
We excitedly await his visit in our campus.
Submitted by:
Yukti Verma
Department of Human Resource Management
