Linda K. Treviño is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics in the Department of Management and Organization in the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Professor Treviño served as Chair of the Department of Management and Organization for four and a half years and currently serves as the Director of the Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics. She holds a Ph.D. in management which has contributed to her unique focus on business ethics as a management issue.

Starting with her 1986 conceptual article proposing a model of ethical decision making in organizations, her research on the management of ethical conduct in organizations is widely cited and is known internationally. Her work (more than 90 articles) has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and other top research journals. Her research has also caught the attention of ethics officers and has influenced the way ethics is being managed in organizations. She has also co-authored a widely used textbook with Katherine Nelson entitled Managing Business Ethics; Straight Talk About How to do it Right, published by John Wiley in 1995 (8^th edition in press). Professor Treviño received the best paper award from the prestigious Academy of Management Review in 1993 for her article on the social implications of punishment in organizations. This article was followed by two empirical studies, both published in Academy of Management Journal (1994, 1996).

Professor Treviño has taught organizational behavior and business ethics to many 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 Ethics & Responsible Business Practices Consulting and for the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program where she led the Academic Fellows for six years (until 2010). She has spoken to many academic and practitioner audiences and continues an active research program. She has also published a book on academic integrity with colleagues Donald McCabe and Kenneth Butterfield (Johns Hopkins University Press, Fall 2012). With coauthors, she has received the best paper award from the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management three times, was nominated for the best paper award by Academy of Management Journal in 2000, received the best paper award from the Academy of Management Learning and Education in 2007, and was the Connelly Visiting Scholar in Business Ethics at Georgetown University in 1995. In 2007, she was elected a member of the Academy of Management Fellows, a group that recognizes members of the Academy of Management who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. Professor Treviño also served on the AACSB’s task force on ethics in the curriculum and served as the Academy of Management Ethics Ombudsperson from 2006-2009. Professor Treviño served as Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly and she currently serves on its board and the editorial review board of Personnel Psychology. She also served a two-year term as Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review. She has served as Division Chair for the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management and served on the Advisory Board to the Center for Ethics in Financial Services of the American College from 2011 - 2015. She also serves on the steering committee of EthicalSystems.Org, an effort to introduce organizations to a new way of thinking about ethics and compliance in organizations. Ethisphere named her one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics in 2015. In 2018, her research was found to be among the most impactful in terms of its presence in Management textbooks and her research was ranked in the top 1% by citations of multiple highly cited papers in Web of Science from 2006 – 2016. In 2019, she received the Eminent Leadership Scholar Award from the Network of Leadership Scholars.

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