Position Announcement

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Management

Department of Business Administration

Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics

University of Delaware

The Department of Business Administration in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware invites applications for a tenure-track position in Management starting September 1, 2025.

Candidates must have a PhD in Management (or a related field). Candidates should also be pursuing a high-quality research program with the objective of publishing in top-tier management journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management.

Research support in the department is excellent, including a 3-0 teaching load before tenure and a 2-0 teaching load in your third year; a large, computerized behavioral lab; a departmental subject pool; the availability of research and teaching assistants; access to databases (e.g., WRDS); and opportunities to apply for research grants. Junior faculty are also given minimal service requirements.

Candidates must also demonstrate the potential for high-quality teaching. Primary teaching responsibility is in organizational behavior and ethics at the graduate level. Candidates with experience or a desire to teach these courses are preferred.

Founded in 1743, the University of Delaware (www.udel.edu) combines tradition and innovation, offering students a rich heritage along with the latest in instructional and research technology. Located on an attractive campus in Newark, Delaware, roughly an hour from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and about 2 hours from New York and Washington, D.C., the University is a state-assisted institution with a strong private endowment and selective admission. It is one of the oldest land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institutions in the nation. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies University of Delaware as an R1 research university with very high research activity.

Lerner College has five departments, 42 academic programs, about 4,200 students, 160 faculty members, and state-of-the art facilities. Lerner College supports full-time, part-time, on-site corporate, and online MBA programs in addition to MS programs in functional business areas and non-degree executive education programs. Degree programs are fully accredited by the AACSB.  For more information on Lerner College, see lerner.udel.edu.

The Department of Business Administration is housed within the Lerner College and consists of five academic areas: Entrepreneurship, International Business, Marketing, Management, and Operations Management. To learn more about the management area and its faculty members, please visit https://lerner.udel.edu/faculty-staff-directory/groups/business-administration/. The department promotes a collegial, supportive environment and values candidates who share these values.

Salary, benefits, teaching load, and research support are highly competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Candidates who currently hold tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor level are strongly encouraged to apply. Such candidates should have a record of publishing in top management journals and evidence of highly effective teaching in graduate and/or undergraduate courses.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, a current curriculum vitae, contact information for three (3) references, at least one recent paper (publication or manuscript), and recent teaching evaluations, if available. Letters of references will be requested at time of application submission. Additional information may be requested after initial review of applicants. The committee will begin reviewing applications immediately.

We will conduct preliminary interviews via Zoom. Priority review of applications begins October 23, 2024. The position will remain open until filled. Submit inquiries, but not application materials, to the search committee chair, Dr. Kyle Emich, at kemich@udel.edu.

The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer that encourages applications from minority group members and women. The University's Notice of Non-Discrimination can be found at http://www.udel.edu/aboutus/legalnotices.html. Employment offers will be conditioned upon successful completion of a criminal background check. A conviction will not necessarily exclude you from employment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States by the start of their employment at the University of Delaware.