Terence Mitchell

Education

• PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1969)
• MA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1967)
• GDPA University of Exeter (1965)
• BA Duke University (1964)

Academic Expertise

• decision making
• leadership

Current Research

• Development and validation of organizational attachment: why people stay and why they leave their jobs, Matching motivation interventions to job contents, How people pace and space their work when striving to meet deadline goals

Positions Held

• At the University of Washington since 1969
• Visiting scholar at, University of Iowa, 2010
• Visiting scholar at, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1988, & 1996
• Visiting scholar at, University of Western Australia, 1990, 1992, & 1995
• Visiting scholar at, University of Amsterdam, 1994
• AACSB faculty fellow at the Department of Labor, 1972

Honors and Awards

• Scholarly Achievement Award, Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management, 2013
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior Division, 2010
• Outstanding Practitioner Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior Award for article, "Increasing Human and Social Capital by Applying Job Embeddedness Theory". Judged best of all papers, 2006
• Winner, Best Published Paper, Academy of Management Review, 2001
• Winner, Best Published Paper (Research in Organizational Behavior chapter), Organizational Behavior Division, 2001
• Scholar of the Year, University of Washington School of Business, 2001 & 2005
• Charter Member, Academy of Management’s Hall of Fame, Gold Level, 2000
• Fellow, Academy of Management
• Fellow, American Psychological Association
• Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1998
• Burlington Northern Foundation Achievement Award for Scholarship, 1982

Academic Service

• Director of the Doctoral Program, Foster School of Business, 2007-2010
• Executive Committee of the Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management, 1998-2003
• Governing board of the Society for Organizational Behavior, 1990-1994
• Editorial board of Academy of Management Review, 1988-1993, & 1996-2002