Jeffrey Mello, Ph.D.

Interim Dean/ Professor of Management
Office: Andreas 200A
Phone: 305-899-3534
Fax: 305-892-6412
E-mail: jmello@mail.barry.edu

Jeffrey A. Mello is Interim Dean and Professor of Management at the Andreas School of Business at Barry University. He previously was a faculty member at George Washington University, the University of California at Berkeley, Towson University, Golden Gate University and Northeastern University, from where he received his Ph.D. He also received a B.S., summa cum laude, from Boston University and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University.

He has been a recipient of the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award, presented by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, and has received international, national and institutional awards for his research. He is the author of three books, including Strategic Human Resource Management, 2ed. (Thomson/South-Western) and has published/presented more than one hundred book chapters, journal articles and conference papers in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Horizons, International Journal of Public Administration, Business & Society Review, Journal of Employment Discrimination Law, Seton Hall Legislative Journal, Journal of Individual Employment Rights, Public Personnel Management, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Labor Law Journal, Journal of Law and Business and the Journal of Management Education. He currently serves as co-editor of Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, on the editorial review boards of four leading management journals and has served as an editor of the Journal of Management Education. He is a member of the national and regional divisions of the Academy of Legal Studies In Business, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Industrial Relations Research Association, Decision Sciences Institute, Society for Human Resource Management and the Academy of Management.

In his corporate career, he held management positions in the publishing, technology and retail industries and was Senior Vice-President of a human resource management consultancy. He has consulted independently with a variety of profit and non-profit organizations, has served as an officer of several Boards of Directors and is also a former semi-professional athlete.