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WKU MBA Faculty
- Faculty Regent | Professor - Management
- shane.spiller@wku.edu
- Grise Hall 212
- 270-681-7922
- Curriculum Vitae
PhD, Human Resources Management, University of Alabama, 1999
BS, General Management, University of Alabama, 1991
Dr. Shane Spiller is a professor of management. He started at WKU in 2006, and was promoted to full professor in 2018. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Alabama. He has won teaching awards at three universities, including WKU’s MBA teaching award and the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year, and was the GFCB’s first Hays Watkins Teaching Fellow.
His research interests include decision-making, leadership, and ethics with numerous articles published in a wide range of academic journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Management Issues, and the Journal of Small Business Strategy.
Dr. Spiller does volunteer and consulting work with many organizations in banking, healthcare, sporting goods, and home services. Additionally, he co-founded and managed a non-profit organization that has provided services to countless children in the region.
He has served on college strategic leadership committees at three AACSB accredited business schools, and led two successful Gordon Ford College of Business accreditation efforts, in addition to serving on the WKU Leadership Steering Committee, and helping to develop the Ed.D. He was elected to serve on the WKU Board of Regents in 2020 as the Faculty Regent.
"A Model Relating CEO Social Intelligence and Strategic Engagement: A Study in Small Business Organizations" (with M.A. Rahim and J.K. Katz), Journal of Business Strategies, 2019, 36(2), 28-48.
"Do high performance work systems pay for small firms? An intellectual capital building perspective" (with L. Coder and W.O. Peake), Journal of Small Business Strategy, 2017, 27(2), 13-35.
"MBA Program at the Crossroad: Considering Program Innovations for Closer Customer Student Engagement" (with R.D. Hatfield), Global Journal of Business Pedagogy, 2017, 1(1), 28-39.
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