President, Leadership Systems Corporation (1982-Present) Author, Development Needs Inventory (DNi)
– Ph.D. Purdue University (Industrial / Organizational Psychology,
1958
– M.P.S. University of Colorado (Personnel Services, 1954)
– B.A. Baylor University (cum laude, Psychology, 1952)
Consulting and other Experience
Consultant to Management – intermittent/part-time over 43 years and 3 years full-time. Professorial and managerial experience at Baylor University (43 years between 1954 and l995, beginning with the most recent positions these are presented below):
Vice President for Human Resources and Planning plus Acting Vice President for Finance and Administration;
Advisor to the President, Dr. H.H. Reynolds, Baylor University;
H.R. Gibson Professor of Management;
Administrative Vice President;
Dean of the Graduate School;
Director, Ph.D. degree program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology;
Chairman, Department of Psychology and
Professor of Psychology.
U.S. Marine Corps, Special Services Education Division
Other business experience: service on several corporate boards of small companies (banking, technology, insurance, publishing); factory foreman for General Tire and Rubber Co.; early non-professional experience in farming, railway, petroleum refining, synthetic rubber, liquid hydrogen, and construction.
Publications in Leadership/Management Development
Development Needs Inventory. With Michael Korpi, program designer, (Waco, TX.: Leadership Systems Corp. 2003.)
Effective Management, 6th. Edition (Waco, TX.: Leadership Systems Corp., 2001)
LSC Organization Analyst (Waco, Texas: Leadership Systems Corp., 1993)
Baylor Leadership Bulletin, Nos. 1 through 137, Sept. 1, 1989 – May 15, 1995
Management and Organization, 6th Ed., Andrew DuBrin and Duane Ireland, coauthors (Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co., 1989) (Introductory management text.)
Human Behavior In Organizations, the 1986 Edition only was co-authored with George P. Huber (Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co., 1978, 1982, 1986)
Leadership Quest, (Waco, Tx.: Leadership Press, Inc., 1986)
Effective Management, Seminar Series, with Drs. Duane Ireland, Andrew DuBrin, George Huber, Lee Polk, Merritt Felmly (Waco, TX.: Leadership Systems, 1985)
Conducta Organizacional, with Marta Calas de Biriel, translator (Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co., 1984). A Spanish version of Human Behavior in Organizations.
Current Professional Organizations
Academy of Management
American Psychological Association
Major Honors and Certifications
U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award
Baylor University – Outstanding Faculty Member Award
Baylor University – Distinguished Professor of Management
Certified Psychologist – Board of Examiners, Texas Psychological Association
Licensed Psychologist – Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists
Hello
This is Ann Parr, wife of Jack who distributed and trained the Effective Management Program when first published. I have a client who is interested in knowing if the program/process is still available. Will you let me know its status?
Thank you.