Lyman W. Porter

Lyman W. Porter (1930-2015) was an American academic administrator. He was the dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine from 1972 to 1983. He was the co-author of many books of management, and "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior."^[1]

Early life[]

Lyman William Porter was born in 1930 in Lafayette, Indiana.^[2][3] His father, , was a professor of Biology at Purdue University.^[4]

Porter graduated from Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, and he received a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1956.^[2][3]

Career[]

Porter began his career in the Psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] He joined the University of California, Irvine as assistant dean of its Paul Merage School of Business in 1967, and served as the dean from 1972 to 1983.^[2][3]

Porter was the president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology from 1975 to 1976.^[3] With Mark Rosenzweig, he was the co-editor of the Annual Review of Psychology from 1974 to 1994.^[3] He was a founding trustee of the American University of Armenia.^[1]

Porter was "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior," and he "played a major role in ensuring that organizational behavior would become an important component of modern business education."^[1] He retired from academia in 1992.^[2]

Personal life, death and legacy[]

Porter married Meredith Anne; they had one son and a daughter.^[4] They resided in Newport Beach, California.^[4]

Porter died on July 2, 2015 in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 85.^[2][3] He is the namesake of the Dr. Lyman W. Porter Colloquium Room at UC Irvine.^[2]

Selected works[]

• Haire, Mason; Ghiselli, Edwin E.; Porter, Lyman W. (1966). Managerial Thinking: An International Study. New York: Wiley. OCLC 229602.
• Porter, Lyman W.; Lawler, Edward E., III (1968). Managerial Attitudes and Performance. Homewood, Illinois: R. D. Irwin. OCLC 243614.
• Porter, Lyman W.; Lawler, Edward E., III; Hackman, J. Richard (1974). Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070505278. OCLC 898052.
• Steers, Richard M.; Porter, Lyman W. (1975). Motivation and Work Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070609402. OCLC 1121255.
• Hackman, J. Richard; Lawler, Edward E., III; Porter, Lyman W., eds. (1977). Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070254138. OCLC 2542495.
• Mowday, Richard T.; Lyman, Porter W.; Steers, Richard M. (1982). Employee-organization Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 9780125093705. OCLC 7924834.
• Porter, Lyman W.; McKibbin, Lawrence E. (1988). Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century?. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070505216. OCLC 17551842.
• Porter, Lyman W.; Angle, Harold L.; Allen, Robert W., eds. (2003). Organizational Influence Processes. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765611345. OCLC 50638478.
• Hitt, Michael A.; Black, Stewart; Porter, Lyman W. (2005). Management. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130088475. OCLC 56413645.

References[]

External links[]

• Lyman Porter Tribute at the Paul Merage School of Business on YouTube

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