Jeffrey A. Mello

Jeffrey A. Mello is Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. He has held faculty and administrative positions at the George Washington University, University of California at Berkeley, Towson 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 four books, including Strategic Human Resource Management, 3e. (Cengage) 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 on the editorial boards of four journals and has served as an editor for the Journal of Management Education, Journal of Legal Studies Education and Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. He is a member of the Academy of Legal Studies In Business, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, 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.