Treviño Named Academy Of Management Fellow

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (August 1, 2007) – Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been elected as a fellow of the Academy of Management, a leading professional organization for scholars in the field of management and organization.

The academy's Fellows Group recognizes and honors members of the Academy of Management who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management, and provides opportunities for fellowship and a forum for discussion.

Smeal faculty members Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, and Charles Snow, Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, are also Academy of Management fellows.

Treviño, who also directs Smeal's Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics and is a professor of organizational behavior, has been on the Smeal faculty since 1987. She is an expert in the management of ethical conduct in organizations and has published more than 60 journal articles.

She is co-author of the textbook Managing Business Ethics; Straight Talk about How to Do It Right, which is being used to teach undergraduates, MBAs, and executives, and is in its fourth edition. Another book, Managing Ethics in Business Organizations; Social Scientific Perspectives, was published in 2003 by Stanford University Press.

Treviño has taught undergraduates, MBA students, executive MBA students, Ph.D. candidates, and executives. She has also consulted with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and has led research projects for the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program, where she is chair of the Invited Fellows.

Her recent research includes work on ethical leadership, values-based leadership, voice in organizations, moral awareness in organizations, and managing ethics from a distance. She also studies academic integrity issues including the impact of honor codes on college students' cheating behavior.

Treviño holds a Ph.D. in management from Texas A&M University.