Lyman W. Porter

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| birth_date = 1930

| birth_place = Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = July 2, 2015

| death_place = Newport Beach, California, U.S.

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| alma mater = Northwestern University
Yale University

| employer = University of California, Irvine

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| spouse = Meredith Anne

| children = 1 son, 1 daughter

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Mary Allen

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Lyman W. Porter (1930–2015) was an American academic administrator. He was the dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine from 1972 to 1983. He was the co-author of many books of management, and "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior."

Early life

Lyman William Porter was born in 1930 in Lafayette, Indiana.{{cite news|title=Lyman Porter, former UCI business school dean, dies|url=http://www.latimes.com/tn-dpt-me-0801-lyman-porter-20150731-story.html|access-date=March 7, 2018|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=July 21, 2015}}{{cite journal|last1=Hakel|first1=Milton D.|title=Lyman W. Porter 1930 – 2015|journal=The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist|volume=197|url=http://www.siop.org/tip/oct15/pdfs/port.pdf|access-date=March 7, 2018|via=Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105235558/http://www.siop.org/tip/oct15/pdfs/port.pdf|archive-date=November 5, 2017}} His father, Lyman C. Porter, was a professor of biology at Purdue University.{{cite news|title=LYMAN W. PORTER|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=lyman-w-porter&pid=175355948|access-date=March 7, 2018|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=July 26, 2015}}

Porter graduated from Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, and he received a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1956.

Career

Porter began his career in the Psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University of California, Irvine as assistant dean of its Paul Merage School of Business in 1967, and served as the dean from 1972 to 1983.

Porter was the president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology from 1975 to 1976. With Mark Rosenzweig, he was the co-editor of the Annual Review of Psychology from 1974 to 1994. He was a founding trustee of the American University of Armenia.{{cite web|title=Remembering Dr. Lyman Porter: a Pioneering Scholar in the Field of Organizational Behavior and Founding Member of AUA's Board of Trustees|url=http://newsroom.aua.am/2015/08/03/remembering-dr-lyman-porter-a-pioneering-scholar-in-the-field-of-organizational-behavior-and-founding-member-of-auas-board-of-trustees/|website=American University of Armenia|access-date=March 7, 2018|date=August 3, 2015}}

Porter was "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior," and he "played a major role in ensuring that organizational behavior would become an important component of modern business education." He retired from academia in 1992.

Personal life, death and legacy

Porter married Meredith Anne; they had one son and a daughter. They resided in Newport Beach, California.

Porter died on July 2, 2015, in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 85. He is the namesake of the Dr. Lyman W. Porter Colloquium Room at UC Irvine.

Selected works

{{cite book|last1=Haire|first1=Mason|last2=Ghiselli|first2=Edwin E.|last3=Porter|first3=Lyman W.|title=Managerial Thinking: An International Study|url=https://archive.org/details/managerialthinki0000hair|url-access=registration|date=1966|publisher=Wiley|location=New York|oclc=229602}}
{{cite book|last1=Porter|first1=Lyman W.|last2=Lawler|first2=Edward E. III|title=Managerial Attitudes and Performance|date=1968|publisher=R. D. Irwin|location=Homewood, Illinois|oclc=243614}}
{{cite book|last1=Porter|first1=Lyman W.|last2=Lawler|first2=Edward E. III|last3=Hackman|first3=J. Richard|title=Behavior in Organizations|date=1974|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|isbn=9780070505278|oclc=898052|url=https://archive.org/details/behaviorinorgani00port}}
{{cite book|last1=Steers|first1=Richard M.|last2=Porter|first2=Lyman W.|title=Motivation and Work Behavior|date=1975|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|isbn=9780070609402|oclc=1121255}}
{{cite book|editor-last1=Hackman|editor-first1=J. Richard|editor-last2=Lawler|editor-first2=Edward E. III|editor-last3=Porter|editor-first3=Lyman W.|title=Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations|date=1977|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|isbn=9780070254138|oclc=2542495|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/perspectivesonbe0000unse}}
{{cite book|last1=Mowday|first1=Richard T.|last2=Lyman|first2=Porter W.|last3=Steers|first3=Richard M.|title=Employee-organization Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover|date=1982|publisher=Academic Press|location=New York|isbn=9780125093705|oclc=7924834|url=https://archive.org/details/employeeorganiza0000mowd}}
{{cite book|last1=Porter|first1=Lyman W.|last2=McKibbin|first2=Lawrence E.|title=Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century?|date=1988|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|isbn=9780070505216|oclc=17551842|url=https://archive.org/details/managementeducat0000port}}
{{cite book|editor-last1=Porter|editor-first1=Lyman W.|editor-last2=Angle|editor-first2=Harold L.|editor-last3=Allen|editor-first3=Robert W.|title=Organizational Influence Processes|date=2003|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|location=Armonk, New York|isbn=9780765611345|oclc=50638478}}
{{cite book|last1=Hitt|first1=Michael A.|last2=Black|first2=Stewart|last3=Porter|first3=Lyman W.|title=Management|date=2005|publisher=Pearson Prentice Hall|location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey|isbn=9780130088475|oclc=56413645}}

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pntTC5M4Hts Lyman Porter Tribute at the Paul Merage School of Business] on YouTube

Category:1930 births

Category:2015 deaths

Category:People from Lafayette, Indiana

Category:People from Newport Beach, California

Category:Northwestern University alumni

Category:Yale University alumni

Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty

Category:University of California, Irvine faculty

Category:Business school deans

Category:Annual Reviews (publisher) editors