William P. Anthony, Ph.D
Professor of Management
The Carl DeSantis Professor of Business Administration
Emeritus
The College of Business
Dr. Anthony
is the founder and former director of the Carl DeSantis
Center for Executive Management Education and is a winner of the 1991
President's Continuing Education Award at Florida
State University. He conducts seminars and workshops throughout the United
States on a variety of management topics for managers in business, government
and not-for-profit organizations. Among his clients are Rayonier, Motorola, State Farm
Insurance, U.S. Department of Energy, Berg Pipe Corporation, various State of
Florida agencies, and numerous not-for-profit organizations. He speaks on
Strategic Planning and Management, Strategic Decision Making, Managing Diversity and other
management topics.
Dr. Anthony has published twenty books and book revisions. His book with Pam Perrewe and Micki Kacmar called Strategic Human
Resource Management, 5th ed., is widely used at colleges and universities
throughout the U.S. and Canada. His Participative Management has been
reprinted twelve times and is in four languages. His Organization Theory: A
Strategic Approach is in its sixth edition. He has also published over 80
articles and papers in a variety of journals including the Journal of Applied
Psychology, Personnel Journal, Human Relations, The Academy
of Management Executive, and Long Range Planning. His articles have
dealt with envisionary management, managing stress, strategic planning,
management decision making, politics, and a variety of other management topics.
Dr. Anthony is an active member in both the Southern Management Association
and the Academy of Management as a paper reviewer and session chair at national
meetings. He also regularly presents at their annual meetings. Other
professional associations include Society of Human Resource Management and Beta
Gamma Sigma.
Dr. Anthony received his Ph.D. in Management and MBA from Ohio State University and his BBA in
Business from Ohio University. Prior to his
current position, Dr. Anthony served as Chairman of the Management Department for eleven years,
and was an Assistant Dean with the College of
Business at Florida State University.
Publications
| Current
Research Projects | Management
Courses/Seminars/Testimony
PLEASE NOTE that the following are partial listings.
Click here for Dr. Anthony's complete curriculum vitae in an 
Adobe Acrobat PDF file format.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- With Pam Perrewe & Micki Kacmar, Strategic Human Resource
Management, 5th Ed., 2006
- With B.J. Hodge & Larry Gales, Organization Theory, 6th Ed.,
2003
- With Nick Maddox & Walt Wheatley, Envisionary Management: A Guide
For Human Resource Professionals in Management Training and Development,
1988
- Practical Strategic Planning: A Guide and Manual for Managers, 1985
- Managing Your Boss, 1983
- Managing Incompetence, 1981
- Management: Competencies and Incompetencies, 1981
- Participative Management, 1978
- With Edward Nicholson, Jr., Managing Human Resources: A Systems
Approach to Personnel Management, 1977
- With Edward Nicholson, Jr. & Robert Litschert, Business
Responsibility and Social Issues, 1974
- With Joel Haynes & Paul Wilkens, The Social Responsibility of
Business: Text and Readings in Environmental Pollution, Minority Group
Employment, and Consumerism, 1973
Recent Articles
- With Erich Brockmann, "Tacit Knowledge and Strategic Decision Making" Group and Organizational Management (accepted and forthcoming)
- Gerald R. Ferris, William P. Anthony, Robert W. Kolodinsky, David C. Gilmore, and Michael G. Harvey, "Management Education and the Development of Political Skill,"Forthcoming in C. Wankel & R. DeFillippi (Eds.), Rethinking Management Education (first volume of the series, Research in Management Education). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. 2002 (forthcomiung)
- With Paul Simmonds, David Dawley and Bill Ritchie. "An Exploratory Examination of The Knowledge Transfer of Strategic Management Concepts from the Academic Environment to Practicing Managers," Journal of Managerial Issues. Vol. XIII, No. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 360-375.
- With Robert Bennett, "Understanding the Role of Intuition/Tacit Knowledge and Analysis/Explicit Knowledge in Bank Board Deliberations," in Theresa Lant and Zu Shapira (eds.) Managerial and Organizational Cognition, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
- With Don Daake, " Understanding Stakeholder Power and Influence Gaps in a Health Care Organization", Health Care Management Review, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 94-107.
- With Pamela L. Perrewé, Gerald R. Ferris, and Dwight Frink, "Political Skill and Executive Health: Effective Coping Mechanisms for Workplace Stressors," Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 14, No. 3, August 2000, pp. 115-123.
- With Gerald R. Ferris, Pamela L. Perrewe`, and David C. Gilmore, "Political Skill at Work," Organizational Dynamics Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 2000), pp. 25-37.
- With David Dawley, "Achieving Quality in a Deregulating Environment: Top Management Team Decision Making and the Search for Meaning, " in Don Fedor and S. Ghosh, eds. Advances in the Management of Organizational Quality, Vol. 5, London: JAI Press, 2000, pp. 155-192.
- With Larry Giunipero and David Dawley, "The Impact of Tacit Knowledge on
Purchasing Decisions," The Journal of Supply Chain Management,
Vol. 35,
No. 1, pp 42-49.
- With Robert Bennett, "Understanding the Role of Intuition/Tacit Knowledge
and Analysis/Explicit Knowledge in Bank Board Deliberations," Theresa Land and
Zu Shapira (eds.)Managerial and Organizational Cognition, New
York:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999(ant.)
- With Darla Domke-Damonte, Sharon Segrest, and Angela Miles, "Following the
Crowd:Social Influence and Technology Usage," Journal of Organizational
Change Management, Vol. 11, No. 5, 1998, pp 425-445.
- With Micki Kacmar, Dennis Bozeman, and Dawn Carlson, "An Examination of
the Perceptions of Organization Politics Model:Replication and Extension,"
Human Relations, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp 383-416.
- With Erich Brockmann, "The Influence of Tacit Knowledge and Collective
Mind on Strategic Planning,"Journal of Managerial Issues,(Summer 1998)
Vol. X No.2, pp. 204-222.
- With Marc Street, "A Conceptual Framework Establishing the Relationship
Between Groupthink and Escalating Commitment Behavior" Small Group
Reserach. May 1997 Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 267-293.
- With Don Daake, "The Role of the Facilitator in Top Management Team
Decision Making," Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams, Vol.
3, 1996
- With Mike Whitfield & Micki Kacmar, "Evaluation of Team-Based
Management: Some Guidelines and a Case Study," Journal of Organizational
Change Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1995
- With Nick Maddox, Robert Bennett & Walt Wheatley, "The Mind's Eye and
the Practice of Management: Envisioning the Ambiguous," Management
Decision, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1994
- With Ralph Stair and Bob Zmud, "The Use of Mental Imagery to Facilitate
Information Identification in Requirements Analysis," Journal of Management
Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1993
- With Robert Bennett, Nick Maddox & Walt Wheatley, "Can You Picture
This? Using Mental Imagery to Enrich Environmental Scanning and Planning,"
Academy of Management Executive, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1993
- "Managing Diversity, Then and Now," Wall Street Journal, July 3,
1992
PLEASE NOTE that the following are partial listings.
Click here for Dr. Anthony's complete curriculum vitae in an Adobe Acrobat PDF file format.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- The Use of Tacit Knowledge in Top Management Teams
- Strategic Human Resource Management Decision Making
- Politics and Work
MANAGEMENT COURSES/SEMINARS/TESTIMONY
Dr. Anthony has taught
numerous management courses during his career at Florida State University including:
- MAN 4720: Strategic Management
- MAN 5721: Strategic Management
- MAN 5305: Human Resource Management
- MAN 6209: Doctoral Seminar in Organizational Theory
- MAN 6715: Doctoral Seminar in Strategy Formulation
Dr. Anthony also serves as consulting and seminar/workshop leader for the
following projects and topics:
- Strategic Planning
- Time Management
- Dealing With Difficult People
- Management of Human Resource Systems
- Productivity Improvement
- Creating a Vision and Establishing a Culture
- Strategic Decison Making
- Supervising Management
Click here for recent expert testimony given by Dr. Anthony include:
For questions or comments or to request a complete resume:
banthon@cob.fsu.edu
© 2002 Dr. William P.
Anthony