Associate Professor
Organizational Behavior
Menlo College, Atherton, CA
lesekerk@gmail.com
Dr. Leslie Sekerka is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Menlo College in Atherton, CA. Her research focuses on the promotion of strengths in human development, to understand and support organizational and individual change, ethical decision-making, and moral courage in the workplace. She is the Director of the Ethics in Action Research and Education Program for the United States Naval Supply Corps and a member of Santa Clara University’s Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership at the Markkula Center. Her work to create a more proactive approach to ethics evolved as she worked with military personnel at the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy and the Center for Executive Education at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Leslie’s teaching repertoire includes organizational behavior, organizational change and development, communications for managers, applied ethics for leaders, and psychology. Leslie delivers customized workshops, seminars, and personal coaching sessions to help foster ethical action in workplace routines and in professional practice. Originally from Lakewood, Ohio, she received a BA from Baldwin-Wallace College in Business Administration with a concentration in theater arts, an MA from Cleveland State University in Communication Theory and Methods, and her Ph.D. is in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. Her publications have appeared in a variety of academic journals and book chapters, including the International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Business Ethics: A European Review, Public Integrity, Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Positive Organizational Scholarship, A Handbook of Transformative Cooperation: New Designs and Dynamics, and the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.
References
Sekerka, L. E. & Bagozzi, R. (in press). A path to moral courage: Decision making factors toward engaging in virtuous action in the workplace. Business Ethics: A European Review.
Sekerka, L. E., Brumbaugh, A., Rosa, J., & Cooperrider, D. (in press). Comparing Appreciative Inquiry to a diagnostic technique in organizational change: The moderating effects of gender.
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, 2 (9).
Sekerka, L. E., & Bagozzi, R. (2006). Moral courage in the workplace: Self-regulation as the cornerstone to virtuous action. In A. Delle Fave (Ed.), Dimensions of well-being: Research and intervention. Milano, Italy: Franco Angeli.
Sekerka, L. E., & Zolin, R. (2005). Proactive versus reactive approaches to ethical dilemmas: Battling moral mediocrity with professional courage. Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 24 (4).
Sekerka, L. E. (2005). Positive scholarship on organizational transformation: Understanding the dynamics of strength-based approaches. Business Psychology (Denmark) 3 (1), 56-75.
Sekerka, L. E., Zolin, R., & Simon, C. (2005). Change Now Because I Say So! Specialized Management Identity and Coercive Rapid Transformation. Naval Postgraduate School Technical Report #NPS-GSBPP-05-003, Monterey, CA.
Sekerka, L. E. & McCraty, R. (2004). Understanding the psychophysiology of appreciation in the workplace. In D. Cooperrider and M. Avital (Eds.), Constructive discourse and human organization: Advances in appreciative inquiry. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science.
Cooperrider, D. & Sekerka, L. E. (2003). Elevation of inquiry into the appreciable world: Toward a theory of positive organizational change. In K. Cameron, J. Dutton, and R. Quinn (Eds.), Positive organizational scholarship (pp. 225–240). San Francisco: Berrett-Kohler.
Sekerka, L. E. & Chao, J. (2003). Peer coaching as a technique to foster professional development in clinical ambulatory settings. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 23 (1), 30–37.
Jeffries, L. W., Cutietta, C., Sekerka, L. E., & Lee, J. (2000). Newspapers, pluralism, and
diversity in an urban context. Mass Communication and Society, 3(2/3), 157–184.
Jeffries, L. W., Cutietta, C., & Lee, J., & Sekerka, L. E. (1999). Differences of community newspaper goals and functions in large urban areas. Newspaper Research Journal, 20 (3), 86–99.
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