Aaron Nurick

Aaron Nurick

  • Professor Emeritus, Management
  • Ph.D. Univ of Tennessee-Knoxville

Teaching Interests

Interpersonal Relations in Management;
Social Psychology;
Emotional Intelligence

Research Interests

Interpersonal Relations;
Emotional Intelligence;
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations;
Leadership

Consulting/Practice Interests

Interpersonal Relations in Management;
Emotional Intelligence

Bio

Professional interests focus on the application of psychology to work and organizations. Teaching, research, and consulting are in the areas of interpersonal relations, emotional intelligence and organizational change and leadership. Published articles in Psychological Bulletin, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning, The Journal of Management Inquiry, The Organizational Behavior Teaching Review/Journal of Management Education, The Harvard Business Review, and a book entitled The Good Enough Manager: The Making of a GEM (Routledge). Received numerous awards including the Gregory H. Adamian Award for Lifetime Teaching Excellence in 2019.

Awards and Honors

  • Gregory H. Adamian Award for Lifetime Teaching Excellence, Bentley Univeristy
  • Honors Professor of the Year, Bentley University Honors Program
  • Innovation in Teaching Award, Bentley University
  • Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Bentley University
  • Gregory J. Hall Award for Honors Capstone Advising, Honors Program
  • Wilder Teaching Professorship
  • Joseph M. Cronin Award for Excellence in Academic Advising
  • Academic Advisor of the Year
  • Gregory H. Adamian Award for Teaching Excellence

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles

  • Nurick, A., Sanfuentes, M., Tchelebi, N. (2021). Psychoanalytic, systems psychodynamic, socioanalytic, and group relations developments of the last two decades. Organisational and Social Dynamics, (21) Issue 1 (Link)
  • Nurick, A. J., Thamhain, H. J. (2009). Managing Global Project Teams. (Link)
  • Nurick, A. J., Carhart, D. H. (2009). The Value of Endowed Teaching Professors. The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Carhart, D. H., Nurick, A. J. (2009). Living for the Lightbulb. Magna Publications 16-17.
  • Buono, A. F., Nurick, A. J. (2008). Reaching Your Next Generation of Employees. Federal Ethics Report, (15) 9 4-Jan.
  • Nurick, A. J., Carhart, D. H. (2006). Living for the Lightbulb. The Teaching Professor, (20) Dec, 2006 1.
  • Salimbene, F. P., Buono, A. F., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2005). Service-Learning and Management Education: The Bentley Experience. Academy of Management Learning and Education, (4) 5-Sep 336-344.
  • Nurick, A. J., Adams, S. M. (2002). The stuff of leaders. Computerworld, (1-Jan)
  • Buono, A., Nurick, A., Hoffman, A. (1995). Management consulting in the schools: Lessons from a system-wide intervention. Journal of Organizational Change Management, (8) Issue 3 (Link)
  • LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (1993). Issues of Separation and Loss in the Organizational Exit. Journal of Management Inquiry, (2) 4 356-365.
  • LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (1993). Mourning Becomes Elective: Teaching About and Managing Termination in Classroom. Journal of Management Education, (17) No. 1 27-38.
  • LaFarge, V., Nurick, A. (1993). Issues of Separation and Loss in the Organizational Exit. Journal of Management Inquiry, (2) Issue 4 (Link)
  • Lafarge, V., Nurick, A. (1993). Mourning becomes elective: Teaching about and managing termination in the classroom. Journal of Management Education, (17) Issue 1 (Link)
  • Hoffman, A. N., Nurick, A. J. (1991). Choosing Health Care Coverage: Considerations of Physician Motivation. Business Horizons May-June
  • Nurick, A. (1990). Beyond the facts: Teaching what we do not know. Journal of Management Education, (14) Issue 4 (Link)
  • Nurick, A. (1988). Teacher and therapist: An integration of educator roles. Journal of Management Education, (12) Issue 3 (Link)
  • Nurick, A. (1985). Human resource management in action. The paradox of participation: Lessons from the tennessee valley authority. Human Resource Management, (24) Issue 3 (Link)
  • Nurick, A. (1982). Participation in Organizational Change: A Longitudinal Field Study. Human Relations, (35) Issue 5 (Link)
  • Gordon, M., Nurick, A. (1981). Psychological approaches to the study of unions and union-management relations. Psychological Bulletin, (90) Issue 2 (Link)

    • Books

  • Nurick, A. J. (2020). The Good Enough Manager: The Making of a GEM 2nd edtion Routledge
  • Nurick, A. (2020). The good enough manager: The making of a GEM: Second edition Taylor and Francis Inc. (Link)
  • Nurick, A. (2012). The good enough manager: The making of a gem Taylor and Francis (Link)
  • Nurick, A. J. (2011). The Good Enough Manager: The Making of a GEM Routledge (Taylor and Francis)

    • Book Chapters

  • Nurick, A. (2021). Anthony F. Buono: A Practical Sociologist for a Changing World . Springer International Publishing (Link)
  • Nurick, A. J. (2020). Anthony F. Buono: A Practical Sociologist for a Changing World The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers.
  • Nurick, A. J., Thamhain, H. J. (2006). Developing Multinational Project Teams Global Project Management Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill
  • Nurick, A. J., Thamhain, H. J. (2006). Team leadership in global project environments Global Project Management Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill
  • Newell, S. M., Adams, S. M., Crary, L. M., Glidden, P., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2005). Exploring the Variation in Project Team Knowledge Integration Competency New Frontiers in Knowledge Management. Hampshire, England, UK: Palgrave MacMillan
  • LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J., Leiter, E., Buono, A. F. (2003). Teaching to the Issues: Human Resource Intervention in Mergers and Acquisitions . Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing
  • Nurick, A. J. (2001). Consulting and EQ: Enhancing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace . Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing

    • Conference Proceedings

  • Nurick, A. J. (2012). “Discovering GEMS: Good Enough Managers” SAM Las Vegas, NV
  • Newell, S. M., Adams, S. M., Crary, L. M., Glidden, P., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2004). “Exploring the Variation in Student Project Team Knowledge Integration Competency”

    • Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts

  • 2017. "Fast Company"
  • Nurick, A. J. 2016. "Baker pragmatic, effective and good enough"
  • 2016. "Time.com/Money"
  • Nurick, A. J. 2015. "Excellent Leaders are Actually Good Enough"
  • 2013. "Bloomberg Radio"
  • 2013. "Bloomberg Radio"
  • 2012. "We Mean Business"

    • Presentations

  • Nurick, A. J. (2022). “Engaging through the written word with people outside our field” Presented at the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations Professional Development Workshop---Annual Meeting online
  • Weiss, J. W., Buono, A. F., Nurick, A. J. (2019). “Ethical Issues of Gamification in Organizations: Unifier, Divider, Enhancer or Detractor of Inclusiveness of People and Cultures?” Presented at the Academy of Management Academy of Management Annual Meeting Boston, MA
  • Nurick, A. J. (2017). “Writing for Publication: A Crash Course” Presented at the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations International Annual Meeting Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Nurick, A. J., Tchelebi, N. (2016). “Writing for Publication--A Crash Course” Presented at the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations ISPSO Annual Meeting and Symposium Granada, Spain
  • Blancero, D., Cotton-Nessler, N. C., Marron, G. F., Berdrow, I., Fukami, C., Junaid, N., Kellogg, D. M., Mullane, K., Nurick, A. J., Spelman, D. H., Stewart, M. M. (2015). “Playing in the Same Sandbox: Coordinated Teaching in a Required Undergraduate Management Course” Presented at the Management Faculty of Color Association Meeting Bridgewater, MA
  • Nurick, A. J. (2012). “Discovering GEMS: Good Enough Managers” Presented at the SAM Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM) Las Vegas, NV
  • Buono, A. F., Nurick, A. J. (2008). “Reaching Your Next Generation of Employees”
  • Nurick, A. J., Carhart, D. H. (2006). “Endowed Teaching Professors - Agents of Change”
  • Newell, S. M., Adams, S. M., Crary, L. M., Glidden, P., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2006). “An Autoethnographic Account of Knowledge Creation in Project Teams” Presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Hawaii
  • Newell, S. M., Adams, S. M., Crary, L. M., Glidden, P., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2005). “Exploring the Variation in Student Project Team Knowledge Integration Competency” Presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Waikoloa, Hawaii
  • Newell, S. M., Adams, S. M., Crary, L. M., Glidden, P., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2004). “Exploring the Variation in Student Project Team Knowledge Integration Competency” Presented at the ABE Conference Rhode Island
  • Newell, S. M., Adams, S. M., Crary, L. M., Glidden, P., LaFarge, V. V., Nurick, A. J. (2004). “Exploring the Variation in Student Project Team Knowledge Integration Competency: The influence of Emotional Intelligence and Social Capital” Presented at the Academy of Business Education Mystic Seaport, CT

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • for Facutly teaching mentor 9/1/20 - Present
  • Committee Member for Management Department Teaching Committee 1/1/19 - Present
  • Mentor (Student) for Leadership Concentration Advisor 9/1/15 - Present
  • for Management Department Planning Committee 9/1/13 - 5/31/15

    • Service: Public

  • Officer, President/Elect/Past for Massachusetts Community Outreach Initiative 6/1/14 - 12/31/22
  • Chairperson for Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers 1/1/08 - 12/31/12

    • Service: Professional

  • Committee Chair for New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) 10/7/21 - 10/8/21
  • Committee Chair for New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) 5/5/21 - 5/6/21
  • Committee Chair for New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) 11/7/19 - 11/8/19
  • Board member for Board of Directors, International Sociiety for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations 7/1/19 - Present
  • External reading for doctoral dissertation for Fielding Graduate University 4/1/19 - 6/30/21
  • External program reviewer for NEASC 7/19/18 - 7/20/18
  • Committee Member for NEASC 11/6/16 - 11/9/16
  • Visiting evaluator of Hult International Business School for NEASC 6/18/15 - 1/12/16
  • Editor, Journal for Organisational and Social Dynamics 1/1/14 - Present
  • Committee Member for NEASC Visiting Team 4/6/14 - 4/9/14
  • Conference/Workshop Organizer for International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations 1/1/12 - 11/30/18
  • Chairperson for NEASC 1/1/12 - 2/28/12

    • Service: University

  • for Honors Council 9/1/21 - 5/31/22
  • for Provost Search Committee 5/1/21 - 5/31/22
  • for Convocation Faculty Speaker 9/1/20 - 9/30/20
  • for Promotion and Tenure Committee 9/1/18 - 6/30/20
  • Task Force Member for Curriculum Task Force 3.0 5/1/19 - 12/31/19
  • for Search Committee, Dean of Arts and Sciences 1/1/18 - 4/30/18
  • for Baccalaureate Faculty Speaker 5/19/17 - 5/19/17
  • Committee Member for Graduate Curriculum Committee 9/1/15 - 5/31/18
  • Committee Member for Centennial Steering Committee 7/15/15 - 6/21/17
  • Committee Member for Bentley Capital Campaign Planning Committee 11/13/13 - 6/1/15
  • Task Force Member for Fraternity and Sorority Life Task Force 9/4/13 - 4/30/14
  • Committee Member for First Year Seminar Review Committee 9/26/13 - 12/18/13
  • Committee Member for Promotion and Tenure Committee 9/1/12 - 12/31/14
  • Task Force Member for Shared Governance Task Force 3/1/12 - 1/31/13
  • Committee Member for NEASC Steering Committee 1/1/12 - 12/31/12
  • for Wilder Professor Search Committee 9/1/11 - 4/30/12
  • for Digital Governance Committee 2/1/11 - 5/31/11