Wayne State University School of Business Administration

Victor Wooddell

Senior Lecturer of Management

ad9043@wayne.edu
(313) 577-4525

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1996

Teaching Interests

  • Complex Organizations
  • Leadership
  • Human Resources

Research Interests

  • Social Networking Analysis
  • Dynamic Systems Modeling
  • Virtual Teambuilding

Bio

Dr. Wooddell is a senior lecturer at Wayne State University. He teaches Human Resources Management, Strategic Leadership and Complex Organizations. His research interests include social networks in organizations, dynamic systems modeling and virtual teams.

Previous to joining Wayne State, he was an internal management consultant for the City of Detroit, a teacher, and a self-employed external consultant to a wide range of service-oriented agencies and organizations. He is skilled in both large and small group facilitation, executive coaching, and conflict management. He can be reached at ad9043@wayne.edu.

Professional Experience & Certification

  • Organizational Development Manager, City of Detroit, seven years
  • Self-employed consultant, 12 years

Publications & Presentations

Publications

  • Wooddell, Victor and Sarkar, Kalpana (in submission). Employee driven leadership assessment: An employee designed assessment of their supervisors’ leadership development skills. Personnel Psychology.
  • Wooddell, Victor (2009). Employee Empowerment, Action Research and Organizational Change: A Case Study. Organization Management Journal, issue: TBA. 
  • Wooddell, Victor and Edwards, Sanyani (2006). Employee-led Change: Three Case Studies. Organization Development Practitioner, v38, n3. 
  • Wooddell, Victor (2003). An Interview with Chris Argyris. Organization Development Practitioner, v21, n1.
  • Wooddell, Victor (2002). The Politics of Implementation: The importance of building consensus around employee performance management. Organization Development Practitioner, v34, n4. 
  • Wooddell, Victor (2002). Consulting in the Public Sector. Organization Development Journal, v20, n2, 91-95.
  • Wooddell, Victor (2001). Small Group Conflict Theories. In Michie, Jonathan (ed.) The Readers Guide to the Social Sciences. London, UK: Fitzroy Dearborn.