professor WAYNE BROCKBANK

Dr. Wayne Brockbank is a Clinical Professor of Business at the University of Michigan Business School. His teaching focuses on strategic human resource management, strategy formulation and implementation, and international business. At the University of Michigan's Executive Education Center, Professor Brockbank is the Faculty Director of the Strategic Human Resource Planning Program and the Advanced Human Resource Executive Program. He is the Co-Director of the Human Resource Executive Program. These three executive programs have been consistently rated over the last ten years as the best HR executive programs in the United States and Europe by the Wall Street Journal and Business Week.

He has spent 2 years conducting research in the Peoples Republic of China, Japan and Hong Kong, where he has studied the influence of HR management practices on
international competition and their implications for a firm's competitiveness. He is now the Director of the Michigan Human Resource Executive Programs in Hong Kong, Singapore, and India as well as the Michigan Global Program in Management Development in India. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Instituto De Altos Estudios Empresariales (Argentina). He also currently teaches at Erasmus University (Netherlands), Mt. Eliza University (Australia) and Academy for Management Excellence (India).

His current research focuses on (1) conceptual and process linkages between human resource practices and business strategy, (2) high value added HR practices, and (3) implementing business strategy through people. He has published on these topics in the Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Planning, Harvard Business Review and Personnel Administrator and has contributed numerous book chapters. In 1990, 1995 and 2000, he received the best HR paper of the year from the Society of Human Resource Management and the Society of Human Resource Planning.

Professor Brockbank has consulted in these areas with corporations on every continent. Among his clients have been General Electric, Cathay Pacific Airways, Unilever, Motorola, Harley-Davidson, Citicorp, Ericsson, ICI, Cisco, General Motors, Saudi Aramco, Texas Instruments, Exxon, Goldman Sachs and Hewlett-Packard. He has also participated in workshops for the Academy of Management, Linkage, The Conference Board, SHRM, Singapore Civil Service, Strategy Planning Forum, IQPC, Human Resource Planning Society, Hong Kong Provincial Government and others. His consulting focuses on assisting companies in developing and implementing successful human resource, organizational and business strategies.

Professor Brockbank completed his Ph.D. at UCLA where he specialized in business policy and strategy, organization theory, and international business. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University.