Lyman W. Porter
Born1930
DiedJuly 2, 2015
Alma materNorthwestern University
Yale University
OccupationAcademic
EmployerUniversity of California, Irvine
SpouseMeredith Anne
Children1 son, 1 daughter
Parent(s)Lyman C. Porter
Mary Allen

Lyman W. Porter (1930โ€“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."[1]

Early life

Lyman William Porter was born in 1930 in Lafayette, Indiana.[2][3] His father, Lyman C. Porter, was a professor of biology at Purdue University.[4]

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.[2][3]

Career

Porter began his career in the Psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] 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.[2][3]

Porter was the president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology from 1975 to 1976.[3] With Mark Rosenzweig, he was the co-editor of the Annual Review of Psychology from 1974 to 1994.[3] He was a founding trustee of the American University of Armenia.[1]

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."[1] He retired from academia in 1992.[2]

Personal life, death and legacy

Porter married Meredith Anne; they had one son and a daughter.[4] They resided in Newport Beach, California.[4]

Porter died on July 2, 2015, in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 85.[2][3] He is the namesake of the Dr. Lyman W. Porter Colloquium Room at UC Irvine.[2]

Selected works

  • Haire, Mason; Ghiselli, Edwin E.; Porter, Lyman W. (1966). Managerial Thinking: An International Study. New York: Wiley. OCLC 229602.
  • Porter, Lyman W.; Lawler, Edward E. III (1968). Managerial Attitudes and Performance. Homewood, Illinois: R. D. Irwin. OCLC 243614.
  • Porter, Lyman W.; Lawler, Edward E. III; Hackman, J. Richard (1974). Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070505278. OCLC 898052.
  • Steers, Richard M.; Porter, Lyman W. (1975). Motivation and Work Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070609402. OCLC 1121255.
  • Hackman, J. Richard; Lawler, Edward E., III; Porter, Lyman W., eds. (1977). Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070254138. OCLC 2542495.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  • Mowday, Richard T.; Lyman, Porter W.; Steers, Richard M. (1982). Employee-organization Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 9780125093705. OCLC 7924834.
  • Porter, Lyman W.; McKibbin, Lawrence E. (1988). Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century?. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070505216. OCLC 17551842.
  • Porter, Lyman W.; Angle, Harold L.; Allen, Robert W., eds. (2003). Organizational Influence Processes. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765611345. OCLC 50638478.
  • Hitt, Michael A.; Black, Stewart; Porter, Lyman W. (2005). Management. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130088475. OCLC 56413645.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Remembering Dr. Lyman Porter: a Pioneering Scholar in the Field of Organizational Behavior and Founding Member of AUA's Board of Trustees". American University of Armenia. August 3, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Lyman Porter, former UCI business school dean, dies". The Los Angeles Times. July 21, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hakel, Milton D. "Lyman W. Porter 1930 โ€“ 2015" (PDF). The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist. 197. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2018 โ€“ via Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
  4. 1 2 3 "LYMAN W. PORTER". The Los Angeles Times. July 26, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2018.


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