John Massey School of Business (JMSB) Monthly Newsletter

THE SAVAGE STORM BULLETIN

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The Women's Entrepreneurship Conference took

place on SE's campus October 17th and was a

success! The event was initiated by Dr. Martin

Bressler as photoed here.

CURRENT JMSB

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE

PROGRAM DEGREE PLANS

GRADUATION REQUIREMENT

INFORMATION

JMSB PROGRAM CONTACT

INFORMATION

IN THIS ISSUE

WOMEN'S

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CONFERENCE AT SE

DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL

SAFETY & HEALTH NEWS

JMSB FACULTY CONFERENCE

UPDATES

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

ASSOCIATION SE LIVE! STUDENT

RECRUITMENT EVENT

Women's Entrepreneurship Conference

Michele Campbell,

State Director of

OKSBDC,

one of the major

sponsor partners of

the inspiring event!

PHI BETA LAMBDA NEW STUDENT

OFFICER POSITIONS TAKEN

AACSB VISIT & CHOCTAW DANCE

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JMSB FACULTY CONFERENCE UPDATES

Dr. Ying Chou Lin Dr. Han-Sheng Chen

Finance faculty Drs. Ying Chou Lin and Han-Sheng Chen recently

attended the Financial Management Association International (FMA)

2018 annual meeting in San Diego, CA, on October 10th to October

13th, 2018. FMA is the one of the largest finance organization in the

world, and its annual meeting provides great opportunities for

academicians interaction between and among practitioners around the

globe to promote the development and understanding of basic and

applied research, and to enhance the quality of finance education.

With their respective expertise in corporate finance and financial

derivatives, Dr. Lin and Dr. Chen discussed three most recent research

papers on those fields in the conference. In addition, Dr. Lin served as

a chair for one of the research sessions. They were also invited to

participate in several panel discussions to discuss how to apply

technology in finance teaching to improve students learning outcome.

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Dr. Rhonda Richards and Mr. Robert Howard, MBA attended the

Academy of Business Research Conference in San Antonio, Texas,

October 24th - 26th. The JMSB faculty presented an abstract on a study

of Ethics and MBA Students.

Dr. Rhonda Richards

The abstract to their study is below:

The purpose of the research study was to examine the ethical reasoning

skills of MBA students at an AACSB-accredited university located in

the state of Oklahoma. The researchers used Thorne’s (2001)

Accounting Ethical Dilemmas Instrument (AEDI) to measure the

participants’ ethical reasoning skills. The research design includes a

cross-sectional, quantitative study to test empirically the connection

between age, gender, marital status, and ethnicity in relation to one’s

ethical reasoning skills. The researchers plan to contribute by providing

insight regarding varying outside factors in predicting moral reasoning.

The findings of this research may be useful to educators, particularly

ones teaching in MBA programs, which may be examining effective

ethics instruction.

Mr. Robert Howard, MBA

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Dr. Luci Parmer attended the British Academy of Management Conference on

September 4th - 6th in Bristol, England United Kingdom. She presented a paper

on managerial leadership perceptions and power and facilitated a professional

development workshop on the challenges of teaching leadership courses and/or

workshops to mid-career professionals and students. A partial abstract to the

study is below.

Dr. Luci Parmer

Purpose - To examine the relationship between the perceptions employees have

regarding how they are treated in the workplace environment by their current or

most recent supervisor, and how this predicted their feelings of power within

themselves. The perceptions were measured utilizing the Managerial Leadership

Perceptions Questionnaire (MLPQ) created by Parmer (2017). Employee power was

measured utilizing the Power Instrument developed by Hinkin and Schriesheim

(1989) which stemmed from French and Raven’s (1959) five original bases of power

theory to include referent, expert, legitimate, reward, and coercive.

Design/methodology approach –The authors collected a sample of 199 participants

gathered from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk digital labor pool. Participants completed

a survey which measured their managerial perceptions, bases of power, and

demographic characteristics. Statistical analysis was used, including a factor

analysis, to explore the relationship between managerial perceptions, bases of

power, and demographic characteristics.

Findings – This study demonstrated there were significant findings between the

demographic associations and position power, managerial perceptions and personal

power, managerial perceptions and position power, and managerial leadership style

and power. No significant findings between the demographic associations and

personal power were found.

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Association of Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) Conference

Mr. Rod Leird, MBA

Southeastern Oklahoma State University played a key leadership role

in the 80th national conference of the Association of Continuing

Higher Education(ACHE). Jeni Maple, Administrative Assistant to the

Vice President of Academic Affairs served as the co-chair of the

national conference. Rod Leird, Assistant Professor of Management

and Marketing, John Massey School of Business served as national

marketing chair for the conference. The conference was held in

Newport, Rhode Island from October 8-10. The theme of the conference

was Keeping the Beacon of Continuing Education Burning Bright.

ACHE is an organization that focuses on supporting continuing

education programs for nontraditional students along with faculty,

community, and institutions of higher education.

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Association of Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) Conference

(cont.)

Serving as co-chairs of the national conference:

Tina Marie Coolidge

Manager, Academic and Support Services Center

Drexel University

Jeni Maple

Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs

Southeastern Oklahoma State University

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Southeastern’s Department of Occupational Safety and Health was well

represented this past summer at The American Society of Safety

Professionals (ASSP) National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Chris W. Bradshaw, Chair of the department, presented research he

conducted with the assistance of student Bernie Underwood III, Dr. Hal

Poovey, and Mellena Nichols. He also set up a booth for recruitment

and was assisted at the booth by both Dr. Nick and Mellena Nichols of

whom both are full-time faculty. Mrs. Nichols, Sponsor for ASSP

Student Section, attended with the officers of the SE Student Section of

ASSP. She and the student officers were able to attend the conference

by raising money from various on-campus fundraisers and a gracious

donation by a safety alumnus. The annual national convention offers

attendees an opportunity to see the latest innovations in the safety

industry. It also allows educational breakout session on a wide variety

of topics for continuing education.

Department of Occupational Safety & Health News

Dr. Chris Bradshaw, Chair, Department of Occupational Safety & Health

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The Department of Occupational Safety and Health recently hosted its

annual semester Career Fair. This year’s fair was by far the biggest and

best. Eight different companies packed the OSH building in an effort to

scout out potential interns and new hires. Those in attendance included

Texas Instruments, Brandt Construction, Cadence McShane, Dal-tile,

Granite Construction, Hensel Phelps, McCarthy Construction, and

Northstar Builders Group. This departmental career fair was

implemented two semesters ago in response to the high demand by

companies for OSH students to fill positions and internships. The

response from both students and participating companies have been

exceedingly positive. Other companies that have recently been on

campus doing informational sessions and interviews include Amazon,

Barnard Construction, and ISN. Future companies planning to come

this semester include both CUDD Well Service and Halliburton Energy.

Department of Occupational Safety & Health News (cont.)

Department of Occupational Safety & Health Career Fair

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Students Allison Robinson and Morgan Cavin, accounting majors and

members of the JMSB Accounting and Finance Association, helping to

recruit at SE Live!

JMSB Accounting and Finance Association Students

Help Recruit!

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Phi Beta Lambda Officer Positions Taken

SE's Homecoming King, Nate Hodson has taken the President Officer position

with the Phi Beta Lambda Student Organization. He's pictured below with SE

President, Sean Burrage and Homecoming Queen, Jamie Jackman.

Nate is a Junior majoring in Finance. He is a member of Blue Key Honor Society,

Beta Gamma Sigma, National Business Honor Society, Alpha Chi National Honor

Society, Southeastern Honors Program, True Blue Ambassador, Baptist Collegiate

Ministry, as well as, the Savage Storm Leader and Alumni Legacy Leader.

His hobbies include watching and analyzing multiple sports, as well as, playing

them. He also loves board games, video games, reading comics, watching movies

and two-stepping.

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Phi Beta Lambda Officer Positions Taken (cont.)

Jaycee McClean has taken the Secretary Officer position with Phi Beta

Lambda. Jaycee is from Lone Grove, OK. She is a junior majoring in

hospitality management. She is also involved in Alpha Sigma Tau

sorority, Alumni Legacy Leaders, & Alpha Chi Honor Society. Outside

of school, she enjoys traveling and fishing.

Phi Beta Lambda is a global student organization committed to

community service and engagement. Any student can join!

Contact Dr. Luci Parmer at lparmer@se.edu for further details!

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AACSB Visit and Choctaw Dance

The AACSB team made a visit to the SE and the JMSB and good

reports followed! During the visit, a ceremonial Choctaw dance took

place to kick off the event!

The mission of AACSB International is to foster engagement,

accelerate innovation, and amplify impact in business education.

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AACSB Visit (cont.)

AACSB team member, Dr. Laura Milner, Dean, College of Business

Administration, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse with SE's Bolt!

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Current JMSB Undergraduate and Graduate Program Degree Plans

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

Accounting

Finance

General Business

Management

Hospitality Management

Marketing

Current JMSB Graduate Program Degree Plans

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

MBA with an emphasis in General

MBA with an emphasis in Accounting

MBA with an emphasis in Aerospace Logistics

MBA with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship

MBA with an emphasis in Finance

MBA with an emphasis in Healthcare Information Systems

MBA with an emphasis in Hospitality Management

MBA with an emphasis in Human Resources

MBA with an emphasis in Management

MBA with an emphasis in Marketing

MBA with an emphasis in Native American Leadership

MBA with an emphasis in Safety

MBA with an emphasis in Strategic Communications

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All JMSB students are required to take the Major Field Test (MFT

exam) and earn a passing grade on the exam which is taken during

their final semester at Southeastern. The exam is part of the Business

Policy class and detailed information is available to students on

Blackboard. Students must meet all required prerequisite courses

prior to enrolling in Business Policy and must be approved by their

advisor and the Business Policy professor.

Please note: Students take MNGT 4633 Business Policy in their last

semester of study. Students must have successfully completed

marketing and finance and be graduating in the semester in which

they enroll in Business Policy.

Important Graduation Requirement Information!

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Questions regarding the JMSB and programs offered, please contact:

Dr. Kitty Campbell

Massey Professor of Management

Chair, Dept. of Management & Marketing

Interim Chair, Dept. Of Accounting & Finance

John Massey School of Business

Southeastern Oklahoma State University

kcampbell@se.edu

Office # 103

(580) 745-2494

Newsletter Editor: Dr. Luci Parmer at lparmer@se.edu