Faculty Profile - Department of Management

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Dr. Elisabeth K. Ryland
Associate Dean, Student Affairs
JB 278
Professor of Management
College of Business & Public Administration
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407 - 2397
(909) 537-5701
eryland@csusb.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.B.A, Florida State University, Tallahassee
M.A., Florida State University, Tallahassee
B.A., University of Copenhagen, Denmark

TEACHING INTERESTS

Management and organizational behavior
Administrative communications
International environmental management
Environmental policy and management
Environmental Resource Management

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sustainable management
Strategies for teaching sustainable management
Environmental consciousness
Strategies for teaching international students
Occupational stress and stress coping

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY (IN ADDITION TO ENGLISH)

Danish
German (read)

OTHER INFORMATION

Dr. Ryland's main professional interest is teaching sustainable management to business students. While the world is running out of oil, topsoil, and fresh water, business is still taught and conducted with little regard for the future. She has developed and taught MBA classes in this topic and has been instrumental in developing the related environmental management concentration for the Department of Management. Dr. Ryland has helped develop the campus library collection in environmental management. She maintains a personal lending library in environmental management for the use of students and colleagues.

Dr. Ryland's published works include: "One Good Word is Bread for a Thousand…" in Organization and Environment, December 2001; "Gaia Rising: A Jungian Look at the Environmental Consciousness and Sustainable Organizations" Organization and Environment December 2000; "Greening Business Education: Teaching the Paradigm" in the Journal of Management Education, 22(3), 1998; "The Salutogenic Effect of an MBA Program" in Stress, Coping, and Health in Families: Sense of Coherence and Resiliency," (Sage, 1998); "Work Stress and Well Being: An Investigation of Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Model" in The Journal of Social Behavior & Personality.

Her personal interests include book collecting, hiking, and music.