In April, Paul Tesluk was named dean of
the School of Management. He was select-
ed from a pool of highly competitive candi-
dates after an international search.
A nationally recognized scholar in leader-
ship, team effectiveness and organization-
al performance, Tesluk had been interim
dean since July 2015. He joined the School
of Management in 2011 as the Donald S.
Carmichael Professor of Organizational
Behavior and served for two years as chair
of the Department of Organization and
Human Resources.
He led the 2013 creation of the school's
Center for Leadership and Organizational
Effectiveness and, in 2014, received a UB
Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achieve-
ment Award.
Prior to joining UB, Tesluk spent 13 years
at the University of Maryland's Smith
School of Business, serving as the Ralph J.
Tyser Professor of Organizational Behavior
and Human Resource Management, chair
of the Department of Management and
Organization, and co-director of the Cen-
ter for Leadership, Innovation and Change.
While earning doctoral and master's de-
grees from The Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity, Tesluk majored in industrial/
organizational psychology and minored in
management and organization. He earned
a bachelor's degree in industrial and labor
relations from Cornell University.
Q&A: Tesluk talks with
Buffalo Business
Q. You are a renowned professor
and prolific researcher. Why were
you interested in becoming dean?
A.
What attracted me to the position of
dean is an extension of what drew me to
the School of Management as a professor
in the first place: Leadership is a key area of
Leading the Charge
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Photo: Douglas Levere
