About the Author
George Bohlander is Professor Emeritus of Management at Arizona State University, where he taught human resources and labor relations classes. He received six outstanding teaching awards, including the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award presented by the College of Business and the ASU Parents Association Teaching Award given annually by the university. Dr. Bohlander has published more than 50 articles and monographs in professional and practitioner journals, such as National Productivity Review, HR Magazine, Employee Relations Law Journal, The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector, and Labor Law Journal. He is also a consultant to public and private organizations and an active labor arbitrator. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.Scott Snell is Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He has worked with companies, such as American Express, AstraZeneca, Deutsche Telekom, Heineken, and Shell, to address the alignment of human resource issues and strategic management. His research has been published in top professional journals and he has co-authored four books. He has served on the boards of the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning, the Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review. Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 2007, Dr. Snell was Professor and Director of Executive Education at Cornell University's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) and Professor of Management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Snell earned his B.A. in Psychology from Miami University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Business Administration from Michigan State University. Originally from Ohio, Dr. Snell now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife and three children.