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Terri A. Scandura (born Teresa Anne Scandura, August 22, 1960) is an internationally renowned academic and author on management (wiki) and organizational behavior (wiki). She is currently Professor of Management at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where she has been teaching since 1990.

Early Life
Dr. Scandura was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Cincinnati in 1982 and worked for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where she received a Bronze Medal for Commendable Service. In 1988, she graduate from the University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Department of Management.

Career
Dr. Scandura’s research has centered on leadership (wiki) leader-member exchange (wiki) and mentorship (wiki) She has also published articles and book chapters on measurement (wiki) and applied research methods. Dr. Scandura has given over 130 presentations at professional conferences. In 2012, she gave the Bass Leadership Lecture at the State University of New York, Binghamton and in 2015, she presented in the Research Symposium at Florida International University. Her book published by SAGE Publications titled, Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach is available in July, 2015. She is a member of the Society of Organizational Behavior (SOB), an invitation-only group of the top scholars in organizational behavior. She is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (www.siop.org) (SIOP; Division 14 of the American Psychological Association) and the Southern Management Association (www.southernmanagement.org). Her research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Center for International Business and Research (CIBER) at the University of Miami. She has been a visitor at universities abroad including Nagoya University (Japan), Monash University (Australia), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China) and Zayed University (United Arab Emirates). (add university web links) She has served on the editorial boards of top publications outlets in my field including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Group & Organization Management, and Organizational Research Methods. She served as an Associate Editor for four of these journals: The Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Research Methods, the Journal of Management and Group & Organization Management. In addition, she performs ad hoc reviews for the Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, the Academy of Management Review and other top journals.

Contributions to Leadership Research
Dr. Scandura’s contributions to leadership research center on the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model, however, she also published articles on transformational leadership, authentic leadership, ethical leadership and team leadership. The LMX measure can be found at: http://works.bepress.com/terri_scandura/11/. Her research on LMX began with a 1984 publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology, “Moderating effects of initial Leader-Member Exchange status on the effects of a leadership intervention (with G. Graen). She consistently contributed to the LMX line of research for over 25. In 1994, she published an article, “Leader-Member Exchange and Supervisory Career Mentoring as complementary constructs in leadership research” which fused her interests in LMX with mentoring showing that mentoring significantly impacts the outcomes of performance, salary and promotions above and beyond the LMX relationship. She internationalized her research on LMX publishing a paper on LMX and organizational justice across cultures (with Pillai and Williams) including South American and the Middle East in the Journal of International Business Studies. Her interests in international leadership continued, and a model integrating LMX with paternalistic leadership (an indigenous construct from Turkey) was published in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2005 and a review paper on this topic was published in the Journal of Management in 2008 (both with E. Pellegrini). In 2014, she published a paper with K. Lee and M. Sharif in The Leadership Quarterly examining LMX relationships in the U.S. and Korea.

Contributions to Mentoring Research
Dr. Scandura’s interest in mentoring began as a Ph.D. student when I read a book by Kathy Kram, 1985, Mentoring at Work. Along with LMX, she collected data on mentoring and related this measure to outcomes of performance, salary and promotions. This paper (as noted above) is her third most-cited paper. With B.R. Ragins, she published articles on understudied aspects of mentoring relationships including how mentors view the costs and benefits of mentoring (Academy of Management Journal, 1994) and the termination of mentoring relationships (Journal of Applied Psychology, 1997). Her initial work on mentoring focused on the development and validation of a measure of mentoring functions and the Mentoring Functions Questionnaire (MFQ-9) (the MFQ-9 measure can be found at http://works.bepress.com/terri_scandura/21/ink) remains one of the most often-used measures of mentoring in the literature. With M. J. Lankau, she developed a measure of personal learning in mentoring and related this to employee turnover in an article published in the Academy of Management Journal in 2002 The personal learning measure can be found at:

Contributions to Applied Research Methods Research
In 1993, she published a paper on content adequacy with C.A. Schrieshiem and others (Journal of Management) on the development of a content adequacy procedure for the development and refinement of new measures. Since that time, she has used this technique numerous times to evaluate item content. She developed a tutorial on how to use this technique and have presented for over 10 years in workshops on scale development and validation. In 2000, she published an article with E.A. Williams that reviewed reporting practices in management and applied psychology research in the Academy of Management Journal (this remains one of her most-cited articles).