Linda K. Trevino
Professor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 402 Business Building
Phone Number
814-865-2194
Email Address
lt0@psu.edu
Linda K. Trevino

Professor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 402 Business Building
Phone Number
814-865-2194
Email Address
lt0@psu.edu
Linda K. Treviño is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics, and Director of the Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics in the Smeal College of Business where she has been on the faculty since 1987. She served as Chair of the Department of Management and Organization from 1999-2004. She holds a Ph.D. in management from Texas A&M University. Her research and writing on the management of ethical conduct in organizations is widely published and is known internationally. She has published more than seventy journal articles and has co-authored a textbook with Katherine Nelson entitled Managing Business Ethics; Straight Talk About How to do it Right, published by John Wiley in 1995. The fifth edition was published in 2011. The book, which is being used to teach undergraduates, MBAs, and executives, addresses how people can manage their own ethical conduct and the conduct of their employees in today's business organizations. A more academic book, entitled Managing Ethics in Business Organizations: Social Scientific Perspectives, with Gary Weaver, was published in 2003 by Stanford University Press. A third book on academic integrity coauthored with Donald McCabe and Kenneth Butterfield is in press with Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor Trevi�o has taught all types of students, from undergraduates, to MBAs, to Executive MBAs, to Ph.D.s, and executives. She has also consulted with for-profit and non-profit organizations and has led research projects for Arthur Andersen�s former Ethics & Responsible Business Practices Consulting and for the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program where she served as Chair of the Invited Fellows for ten years. She has made presentations to academic, practitioner, and corporate audiences including the Defense Industry Initiative, the Government Ethics Office, the Conference Board, the Conference Board of Canada, the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, The Money Management Institute, the NASD (now FINRA), the Human Resources Planning Society, and the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association. In 2007, she was elected a member of the Academy of Management Fellows, a group that recognizes and honors members of the Academy of Management who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. In 2004, Professor Trevi�o was invited to serve as a core faculty member in the Business Roundtable�s Institute for Business Ethics where she continues to serve. She also served on the AACSB�s task force on ethics in the curriculum and served a 4-year term as the Academy of Management Ethics Ombudsperson. Professor Trevi�o serves on the editorial boards of Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Journal. She completed a two-year term as Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review in July, 2008. She also served as the Division Chair for the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management. She received the Division's Sumner Marcus Award for service to the division in 2011. Professor Trevi�o received the best paper award from the prestigious Academy of Management Review in 1993 and from the journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, in 2007. She has received the best paper award three times from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Expertise
Professor Trevino's research focuses on understanding ethical and unethical conduct in work organizations. Her current research includes work on ethical culture, ethical leadership, moral disengagement, impacts on and outcomes of speaking up in organizations, and identity issues as they relate to ethics officers and dyslexics in the workplace. She also studies academic integrity issues including honor codes as organizational change initiatives.
Education
Ph D, Management, Texas A&M University, 1987
Courses Taught
MGMT 601 – Ph.D Dis Full-Time
NO DESCRIPTION.
MGMT 451 – Bus Eth and Soc (3)
Advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, economic, equity, environmental, public policy, and political influences on managerial DECISIONS AND STRATEGIES. MGMT 451W Business, Ethics, and Society (3) Focuses on the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a manager must have in order to deal with the social, legal, ethical, and political demands in society. Ecological, ethical, and public policy dimensions of various managerial decisions are examined.
MGMT 528 – Sem Org Beh (3)
Current theoretical and research issues applicable to the study of individual and group behavior within organizational settings.
MGMT 451W – Business, Ethics, and Society (3)
Advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, economic, equity, environmental, public policy, and political influences on managerial decisions and strategies.
MGMT 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
B A 504 – Ethical Leadership (2)
This course introduces students to their ethical responsibilities as business leaders.
B A 574 – Business Research (variable)
A project paper, comparable in quality and scope of work to a graduate thesis, on problems of a company.
MGMT 494 – Research Project (variable)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
MGMT 494H – Honors Research Project (variable)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
B A 597E – Sustainable Business Strategies (1)
Special topics course.