Jill Woodilla, Associate Dean of the John F. Welch College of Business and Associate Professor of Management, received a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Isenberg School of Management, master’s degrees from the University of Hartford (MS in Organizational Behavior) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS in Engineering Science) and a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of London.
Dr. Woodilla has been a member of the full-time faculty at Sacred Heart University since September 2000, and a tenured Associate Professor of Management since September 2007. Her primary areas of teaching are management and organizational behavior. She assumed responsibility for project management of the Welch College of Business’s AACSB-International initial accreditation efforts in 2004, which resulted in accreditation in December 2006, and subsequently served as Director of Continuous Improvement for the Welch College. Before crafting her identity as a “pragmatic academic” in the 1990s, she followed a number of different career paths, including those of a research and development scientist, stay-at-home parent, and non-profit organization manager and consultant. Dr Woodilla is currently an Associate Researcher at the Business & Design LAB, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dr. Woodilla’s ironic perspective provides her with a critical view of the multiple realities of any situation. Her current scholarly interests include varieties of organizational discourse, the theoretical underpinnings of design management, and donor decision-making in charitable giving. Her publications include articles on organizational discourse in the Journal of Management Inquiry and Organization Studies, and an edited book (with Dr. Ulla Johansson of Växjö University, Sweden), Organizations and irony: Epistemological claims and supporting field stories, (published by Liber-Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005), which contains contributions from 20 scholars working in 12 countries. Her chapter, "Workplace conversations: The text of organizing," in Discourse and Organizations (edited by Grant, Keenoy and Oswick, published by Sage, 1998) has been widely cited. Dr Woodilla has also published case studies in the Organization Management Journal (with Dr. Andra Gumbus) and the Case Research Journal (with Dr. Mary Trefry), and has presented at many conferences in the US and in Europe.
Contact:
Roncalli Hall 262
Ph: 203-396-8236
Fax: 203-365-7538
Email: WoodillaJ@sacredheart.edu
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