Gordon Ford College of Business Staff

Human Resource Management

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

Compensation

Staffing

Human Resource Analytics

PhD, Management, University of Kansas, 2007

MBA, University of Missouri, 1997

BS, Industrial Engineering, Kansas State University, 1988

Dr. LeAnne Coder is Professor of Management at Western Kentucky University. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of small business human resource management practices, career/personality fit, and organizational network analysis. She has published articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Leadership and Organizational Management Journal, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Contemporary Economic Policy. She currently serves as the Assurance of Learning Coordinator for the Gordon Ford College of Business and as the President of the Small Business Institute. Before joining WKU in 2007, LeAnne worked in industry for 15 years and held positions such as human resource manager, logistics manager, inventory control manager, cost analyst, and production engineer.

"Do management accounting and control systems stifle innovation in small firms led by owner-managers with high individual entrepreneurial orientation? A mediation approach" (with W.O. Peake, D. Barber, A. McMillan, and D. Bolton), Journal of Small Business Strategy, 2019, 29(2), 1-21.

"Building small firm performance through intellectual capital development: Exploring innovation as the “black box”" (with W.C. McDowell, W.O. Peake, and M. Harris), Journal of Small Business Research, 2018, 88, 321-327.

"Do high performance work systems pay for small firms? An intellectual capital building perspective" (with W.O. Peake and M.S. Spiller), Journal of Small Business Strategy, 2017, 27(2), 13-35.