Mary L. Connerley
Associate Professor
Office: Pamplin 2092
Office Hours:
- T, Th 11:00-11:45 a.m. & by appointment.
Phone: 540-231-7372
Fax: 540-231-3076
Email: maryc@vt.edu
Education
B.S., Iowa State University, 1987
M.S., Iowa State University, 1988
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1993
Dr. Connerley
is the Director of the Business Diversity
Center located in 28 Pamplin Hall
Biography
Mary Connerley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management. She received her Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Iowa and she received her master's degree from Iowa State University in Industrial Relations. Before receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Connerley worked for five years with the Executive Development Program at the University of Iowa. Dr. Connerley has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate, MBA and doctoral levels including Principles of Management, Human Resource Management, Staffing, Training & Development, and Managing Diversity in the Workplace, a course that she developed for the Pamplin College of Business. She has also been involved as a Management and Professional Development Program Facilitator. Her most recent programs have dealt with making the best hiring decisions, multiculturalism and diversity, managing a multi-generational workforce, and emotional intelligence.
Dr. Connerley has been an active researcher and has published over 20 articles in journals such as Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, as well as others. Her current research interests include various aspects of the staffing process, cross cultural and expatriate issues, and multicultural diversity. Honors for Dr. Connerley include being selected as a Multicultural Fellow at Virginia Tech, receiving a Pamplin College of Business Teaching Excellence Award, receiving two Citations of Excellence for her research, and listings in numerous Who's Who bibliographies.
Dr. Connerley has been fortunate to develop her interests in diversity issues by attending a Train the Trainer Diversity Program sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management and an Intercultural Workshop sponsored by the University of Hawaii. She has just completed her first book, coauthored with Paul Pedersen, a well-known multicultural counseling psychologist, titled "Leadership in a Diverse and Multicultural Environment: Developing Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills," which was published in 2005.