Our Faculty
Lynn Miller, Ph.D.
Professor of Management and Leadership
Contact Information
Office: College Hall 414C
Phone: 215.951.1144
Email: miller@lasalle.edu
Profile
Management Professor Lynn E. Miller received a B.A. from Slippery Rock State University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. She teaches courses in Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Professor Miller’s research on occupational closure processes has addressed historical actions that limited the production of medical doctors, excluded women and blacks from the profession, and drove up physician wages in the United States. Her current work addresses theoretical debates regarding how processes of legitimation and competition shape populations of organizations over time. She also has published articles describing classroom exercises that she developed.
Areas of Expertise
- Organizational Design
- Organizational Behavior
- Occupational Closure
Education
- Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
- M.A., Northern Illinois University
- B.A., Slippery Rock State University
Teaching
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Design
- Research and Evaluation Methods for Managers
Publications
“The Social Transformation of American Medical Education: Class, Status, and Party Influences on Occupational Closure, 1902-1919” (with Richard M. Weiss), Sociological Quarterly, 1910.
“Evidence-Based Instruction: A Classroom Experiment Comparing Nominal and Brainstorming Groups,” Organization Management Journal, 2009.
“Medical Education Reform Efforts and Failures of U.S. Medical Schools, 1870-1930” (with Richard M. Weiss), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2008.
“Teaching Technology-Structure Contingencies by ‘Harnessing the Wind,’” Journal of Management Education, 2007.
Books
“Reactions to Organizational Structure: A Comparison of Employees in the U.S. and Bulgaria” (with Richard M. Weiss), in A. Ullmann and A. Lewis (Eds.), Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe, Haworth Press, 1997.
Innovations in Research and Teaching: Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, (coeditor with Joseph Seltzer), Omni Press, 1990.
Managing Human Service Organizations, Editor, Quorum Press, 1989.
“Evaluating Program Outcomes,” in L.E. Miller (Ed.), Managing Human Service Organizations.
“The Management of Volunteers,” in L.E.Miller (Ed.), Managing Human Service Organizations.
Presentations
“Processes of Legitimation and Competition in U.S. Medical Education, 1765-1930” (with Richard M. Weiss), Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Paris, 2009.
“Perceptual Bias Theater” (with Richard M. Weiss), Eastern Academy of Management, Washington, DC, 2008.
Miller, L. E. 2008. Evidence-Based Instruction: A Classroom Experiment Comparing Nominal and Brainstorming Groups, Eastern Academy of Management, Washington, DC, 2008.
The Role of the State in U. S. Medical Education, 1870-1930,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, San José, Costa Rica, 2008.
“Flexner and the AMA: A Shared Agenda for Medical Education Reform?” American Association for the History of Medicine, Montreal, 2007.
“When in Norway Should You Do as the Romans Do? Educating Students about the Workplace Implications of Cultural Differences, Eastern Academy of Management International Conference, Amsterdam, 2007.
