Marcella Kelly teaches the Introduction to Business course at Santa Monica College. In addition to her well-recognized expertise in the areas of marketing and management, Ms. Kelly has extensive industry experience in today’s business environment. Ms. Kelly earned her master’s degree from UCLA and balances her firsthand business experience with strong teaching credentials built through years of experience in the classroom. Dr. Chuck Williams began working at the age of 8, babysitting, mowing people’s lawns, raking leaves, shoveling the snow from their driveways, delivering newspapers (at the age of 12 he won an all-expense paid trip to New York City by winning a contest for signing up the most new newspaper subscribers in his region), working as a stock boy at a pharmacy and a shoe store, sandblasting furnaces at a steel company, repairing roads for the highway department, detailing and washing cars at a Chevy dealership and working at General Motors. Those varied work experiences, combined with dinnertime discussions growing up when his mother discussed the management problems and eventual demise of the Fortune 500 Company she worked for, led to his interest in Management and the difference, good and bad, it could make in people’s lives. Dr. Chuck Williams has served as Dean and Professor of Management at the Andre Lacy School of College of Business at Butler University, Dean and Professor of Management at the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific, Associate Dean, Chair of Management and Associate Professor of Management at the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, Assistant Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Williams received his BA in psychology from Valparaiso University. He specialized in organizational behavior, human resources and strategic management while earning his MBA and PhD in Business Administration from Michigan State University. His research interests include employee recruitment and turnover, performance appraisal and employee training and goal setting. Dr. Williams has published research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, Personnel Psychology and the Organizational Research Methods Journal. He was a member of the Journal of Management’s editorial board and served as a reviewer for numerous other academic journals.?
