News: Professor Carol D. Hansen, Ph.D. (Georgia State University, USA)

Full Name: Carol D. Hansen, Ph.D.
Georgia State University, USA
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Hansen, Carol
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Associate Professor
Vita: http://ayspsdrupal.gsu.edu/sites/default/files/vitae/vita_long_2011_long.pdf
Departments: Department of Public Management and Policy

Carol D. Hansen is an associate professor of human resource development (HRD) at Georgia State University (GSU). She teaches courses in organizational culture, intercultural organizational behavior, instructional design and the diagnosis of HRD interventions. As an ethnographic researcher, she studies the cultural and cross-cultural frames that shape belief systems about employee and organizational development. She has published in journals such as the Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development International Journal, Human Relations, Human Resources Management Review, Journal of Applied of Management, Performance Improvement Quarterly and the International Journal for Intercultural Relations. She has also co-authored an award-winning book on HRD in large organizations.

Dr. Hansen recently completed a visiting professorship at the Sorbonne (University of Paris I) Institute for Business Administration and she was a visiting professor at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Mainz (Germany). Dr. Hansen has also worked extensively in West Africa. Most recently she directed a United States Information Agency project to assist the Ministry of Higher Education in the Cote d'Ivoire to create their own national center for HRD. This initiative has framed much of her recent research on the cultural context of privatization. In 1997 she was a finalist for the GSU faculty achievement award. Dr. Hansen received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MA and BS from the University of Illinois at Champaign. Her practitioner experience was gained as an HRD branch chief at the United States Department of State and as a consultant for a large international HR firm. Of final note, Dr. Hansen was a Fulbright scholar to India and her biography appears in the Who's Who of Emerging Leaders and of American Women.