"Open Rank, Professional Track Faculty, Management and Organizations"

Open Rank, Professional Track Faculty, Management and Organizations

Position Title: Open Rank, Professional Track Faculty, Management and Organizations

Position Type: Full time

Location: Holmes Hall

Categories: Faculty Exempt

The Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University invites applicants for a fixed three year term, renewable, Professional Track position in the Management and Organizations Department beginning in Fall 2026. We seek a candidate with either a demonstrated record of excellence in undergraduate teaching, or exceptional promise of teaching to a diverse student body, and an ability to contribute to our Management and Organizations Department over time. The initial appointment is for three years, with the possibility of reappointment in subsequent years contingent on satisfactory performance. The starting rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The successful candidate will join the College's Management and Organizations Department (MORS) and will be responsible for teaching MGMT 101 (Introduction to Organization & Management). Management 101 is Bucknell's hallmark experiential and reflective management course, where students design and run social entrepreneurship ventures for a full semester. As students run their companies, they are exposed to theories, models, and concepts from the fields of organizational behavior, social entrepreneurship, and principles of management. They then engage in reflection through discussion, writing, and oral presentation about how they can redesign their personal behavior and the behavior in their companies to improve based on guidance from theoretical models and concepts. Major topics include community at work, responsible management, groupthink, decision processes, teambuilding, leadership, organizational structure, managing interdependencies, motivation, human resource management, cause mission definition, product design, financial stewardship, market research, and crisis management.

The successful candidate should possess a graduate degree in a relevant field for teaching MGMT 101, which relies heavily on organizational behavior, social entrepreneurship, and principles of management theory, frameworks, and concepts. In addition, a successful candidate is expected to enhance future development of the course by offering ideas of cutting-edge theories, frameworks, and concepts. Thus, we anticipate that a successful candidate will be well-grounded in academic and practical applications of organizational behavior, social entrepreneurship, and principles of management.

Additionally, candidates will be expected to advise students and maintain faculty qualifications consistent with the AACSB accreditation standards for clinical faculty. The successful candidate will demonstrate evidence of, or potential for, engaging in ongoing professional activities, such as consulting or participation on boards related to their professional background. Some combination of experiences - holding a leadership position in an organization, founding a business, consulting to social businesses, and similar - could also be suitable for this position.

The unique nature of MGMT 101 requires that candidates for this position be enthusiastic about teaching with a team of professors and undergraduate teaching assistants and be capable of engaging in intense teaching in-the-moment on a regular basis. MGMT 101 incorporates values-driven management thinking so that students taking it have the opportunity to develop competence in thought directed toward organizational and societal challenges. This position will be responsible for teaching two sections of MGMT 101 each term (the class meets daily), coordinating course delivery with other professors who co-teach the class, and working with staff and student teaching assistants. Professors facilitate group decision-making to select a service project for the semester with a nearby nonprofit organization, and a product to sell that will fund those service activities. Professors are very engaged with the students as they navigate these decisions, prepare operating plans, and implement them. For more information about MGMT 101, please refer to our departmental website, or to this journal article.

The Freeman College, an AACSB-accredited unit, offers innovative professional education within one of the nation's foremost liberal arts universities. ... The MORS Department and the Freeman College are devoted to diversity and inclusion. ...

QUALIFICATIONS

• Candidates must possess a graduate degree in a field appropriate for teaching Management 101, which relies heavily on organizational behavior, social entrepreneurship, and principles of management theory, frameworks, and concepts.
• Candidates must have either compiled a record of teaching excellence, or demonstrate potential for teaching excellence.

APPLICATION

Review of applications will begin no later than March 15, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. For additional information, and to apply, please visit Bucknell's career site (careers.bucknell.edu). Applications will only be accepted online. We intend to conduct first round interviews remotely. Complete files must include

• A cover letter,
• A current curriculum vitae,
• A statement of teaching and advising philosophy,
• Evidence of exceptional teaching, or promise of excellence in teaching - specifically related to teaching MGMT 101 as described above.

Candidates who progress through the interview process will be asked to provide contact information for three professional references so that confidential letters of reference may be obtained.

Please address any questions about the search to Dr. Eric Martin, Chair of the Search Committee, at ecm018@bucknell.edu.