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Sally Coleman Selden, Ph.D., S.P.H.R.


Email: selden@lynchburg.edu
Phone: 434.544.8266
Office: Schewel Hall 310

Professor of Management

Degrees and Certifications:

  • Ph.D. in Public Administration
    University of Georgia, December 1995

    Fields: Human Resource Management, Public Administration, and Public Policy
    Dissertation: "Representative Bureaucracy: Examining the Potential for Administrative Responsiveness in the Bureaucratic State"

  • Master of Public Administration
    University of Virginia, 1990

  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Virginia, 1989

Experience:

Experience

  • Professor, Syracuse University
  • Professor, University of Oklahoma
  • Research associate, University of Georgia
  • Program evaluator, U.S. General Accounting Office

Other Information:

Teaching Areas

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Human Resource Management
  • Leadership
  • Perspectives on Business

Publications, Presenations and Research

Workshops

  • "Workforce Planning," for the State of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, June 2010.
  • "How to Create and Sustain a Performance Culture," for The Performance Institute, Washington D.C., June 2010.

Presentations

"Hard Times in State Government - the Implications for Workforce and Human Resource Management Practices," American Political Science Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 2010.

"Strategic Human Resource Management in Nonprofit Organizations: An Exploratory Study of Staffing Strategies," ARNOVA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2010.

Books/Chapters

"Representative Bureaucracy," International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. B. Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, and L. Morlino, (Sage Publications, Inc., 2011).

The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998).

Research

I am currently involved in two research projects. The first project, Investigating Partnerships in Early Childhood Education, examines local early childhood education programs that are blending public funds to provide full-day, full-year care to low-income children in New York state and Virginia. The project is funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

The second project is the Government Performance Project, a four-year study of public management systems in all fifty states, the thirty-five largest cities, and thirty-five largest counties, funded by Pew Foundation. I have primary responsibility for evaluating the management dimension, human resources.

My research has been published in Decision Sciences, Administration and Society, Review of Public Personnel Management, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration and Research, Journal of Public Policy Analysis and Management, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Administration Education, Public Administration Quarterly, and American Review of Public Administration.

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Academy of Management
  • Member, American Society of Public Administration
  • Member, Southern Management Association

Personal Information

I am married with three young boys. My interests include reading, biking, hiking, and traveling.