Jane Barnes
Assistant Professor
With Meredith since 2003
Ph.D., Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, Rutgers University
J.D., Rutgers University
MBA, Cleveland State University

Office Location: Harris 233
Telephone Number: 919-760-8614
Fax Number: 919-760-8470
Email Address: BarnesJ@meredith.edu

Research Interests:
Top management teams and firm performance, woman and leadership, small business, motivation and employee development.

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Refereed Journal Articles:

Barnes, Jane.  2009. ...And Injustice for All: Grading ESL Students at Liberty County Community College. Southeast Case Research Journal, 6 (1).

Barnes, J. 2007. Ethics across the curriculum: Applications to economics. Journal of Economics and Finance Education, Winter. With Anne York and Steven Benko.

Barnes, J.E., and Oatsvall, R. 2007. Badblood. Southeast Case Research Journal 4(1).

Barnes, J.E. and Fisher, S. 2006. Recipe for Success. The blending of two diverse food service cultures into a successful collaboration  Journal of Foodservice Business Research.  9(2/3): 111-126.

Under Review:

Barnes, J. and Liao, Y. Barnes J. Organizational competencies of successful supply chain management systems.  Submitted to Human Resource Management.

The impact of HRM systems on M&A performance.  Under review at the Journal of Managerial Issues.

Barnes, J. Familiarity bias in student peer evaluations.  Under review in the Journal of Business Education.

Barnes, J. HRM Quality as a predictor of merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy.  Under review at Human Resource Planning.

Conference Presentations

Liao, Y. and Barnes, J. (2009).  "New Product Development Flexibility from the KBV: The Mediating Role of Information Sharing," presented as an Interactive Paper at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Barnes, Jane.  Managing Your Management Class: Applying Real World Knowledge to the Classroom.  The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Charleston, S.C., June, 2009.

Barnes, Jane.  Fairness and Justice in Grading English-as-a-Second-Language Students.  The Southeast Case Research Association Annual Meeting, Myrtle Beach, S.C., February, 2009.

Barnes, J.E. 2005. The Path to the top: How top management careers contribute to firm performance. Paper presented to the 21 st EGOS Colloquium, Berlin, Germany.

Barnes, J.E. TMT Experience and Firm Performance: A comparison of the Resource-Based View and Upper Echelon Theories. Paper presented at the 2004 Academy of Management Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Barnes, J.E. 2001. The Impact of Human Resource Management Systems on Merger and Acquisition Performance. Paper presented at the 2001 Academy of Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.

Barnes, J.E., & Huselid, M.A. 2000. The Impact of High Performance Work Systems on Mergers, Acquisitions, and Bankruptcies. Paper presented at the 2000 Academy of Management Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Invited Presentations

Excellence in Teaching. 2005. Seminar presented at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. Piscataway, NJ.

Women, Leadership, and Temperament Styles. 2004. Presentation to the Women in Communications and Technology Annual Conference. Wilmington, NC.

The HR Scorecard. Presentation to the Tri-State SHRM Conference, Newport, RI. May, 2003.

HRM and Firm Performance. What do we Know? What do we Need to Know? Presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, March 2001. With Mark Huselid.

Other Publications

Barnes, J.E. and Fisher, S.  2007. Recipe for success: The blending of two diverse food service cultures into a successful collaboration. Human Resources in the Foodservice Industry.  D. Reynolds and Karthis Namasivayam, eds.

Barnes, J.E. Case Studies in Strategic Human Resource Management. With P. Caliguiri, Ed. Specific cases written: Avon Products and American Standard. 2003-2004.

Instructors’ Manual. 2004. Managing Human Resources Through Strategic Partnerships, 9 th Ed. Schuler and Jackson, eds.

Test Bank. 2004. Managing Human Resources Through Strategic Partnerships, 9 th Ed. Schuler and Jackson, eds.

Working Papers

Barnes, J. Women in leadership positions in small businesses.

Barnes, J., and Bledsoe, T. Characteristics of family owned business owners.

¿Esta´ bien? Grading students with English as a second language.

Outsourcing in supply chain systems.  With Ying Liao. 

Knowledge management in supply chain systems.  With Ying Liao.

 

 

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