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David F. Bush
Professor of Human Resource Development
and Industrial Organizational Psychology
Director, HRD Program
Dr. David Bush (Ph.D. Purdue University) conducts research in employee
assessment, selection, diversity, and performance measurement. Results of his
work have been published in such journals as the Journal of Business and
Psychology, the Journal of Systems and Software, the Journal of Applied
Communication Research. His books include Statistics and Research Methods for
Measuring HR Effectiveness: the HR and Staffing Metrics Toolkit, and he has
contributed chapters to Curing Health Care: New Strategies for Quality
Improvement, Women and Work: A Handbook, Visions of the Future: HR Strategies
for the New Millennium and Violence on the Job: Identifying Risks and Developing
Solutions. He is a former board member of the Society for Human Resource
Management Foundation and a former member of the SHRM Committee on Health,
Safety, and Security. He is past president and a board member of the
Philadelphia Chapter of SHRM and a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the
Human Resource Planning Society. He is also a member of the Strategic Management
Society, The Academy of Management, the International Institute of Informatics
and Systemics, and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He is
the founder of Bush Associates, LLC and the co-founder of Assessment Metrics
International.
Published works include:
• Workplace Violence: Prevention Practices and Policies.
• Gender Stereotypes of Occupations.
• EDICT for computer ethics education. (EDICT is the Ethical Dilemmas in
Computing Test)
• Negotiation for Starting Salary: Antecedents and Outcomes Among Recent College
Graduates
• Respect: Beyond Diversity Management
Recent consulting projects include:
• Respect in the Workplace – a year long intervention for a 3 campus hospital
• Selecting stock traders – a year long project to improve a selection system by
13%
• Behavior based interviewing skills – an on-line training program •
Benchmarking and strategic planning for Mauritius Telecom
• Emotional intelligence and 360 feedback and coaching for marketing executives
• Developing a code of ethics
Recent teaching activities include:
• Graduate course in Human Resources Metrics and Research
• Graduate course in Organizational Change
• Graduate seminar in coaching
• Graduate seminar in Project management
• Graduate seminar in consulting
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