Business + Management Stream
The B+M Stream promotes the importance and develops opportunities for faculty scholarship. It offers faculty who are passionately pursuing scholarly B+M research a “community” to interact with, share, mutually assist, and exchange information and resources. The B+M scholarly research stream could include human resources management, information technology, management and governance, organizational strategy, supply chain and operations, finance and accounting, sales, customer service, and marketing.
Dr. Susan Ehlert
PhD, MS.Ed.
Business + Management Stream Research Lead
Dr. Susan Ehlert is an Ontario Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) and an active member of the Human Resources Professional Association; she completed her PhD in Business Management: Human Resources Management (HRM) and a Master of Science in Education in the United States. Susan’s HRM research has largely focused on the micro level, examining the interpersonal dynamics of workforces. Her master’s research applied complaint theory and cultural dimension models in a post-secondary educational context. To examine cross-cultural differences in post-secondary student complaint behaviors. Doctoral work expanded the boundaries of social exchange theory to help organizations better understand how trust, reciprocal relations, and knowledge-sharing behaviors are impacted when teams operate virtually. She is a full-time HRM faculty, Program Coordinator for the Business Administration – HRM (coop) Advanced Diploma, and proud to be a part of NC’s School of Business and Management team.