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Dail Fields, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty and Doctoral Faculty Advisor

dail.fields@franklin.edu

Profile

Dr. Dail Fields PhD currently serves as part-time adjunct professor for Regent and Franklin Universities and a consultant in management and leadership to commercial and non-profit organizations. He has previously served as tenured full-time professor and program director for the Regent University PhD in Organizational Leadership and as Senior Research Scientist at the University of Georgia Institute for Behavioral Research. Dr. Fields was a Fulbright Scholar based in Lithuania in 2006-7 and completed a Fulbright Specialist assignment in Nepal in 2017. He is the author of "Taking the Measure of Work", a guide to measurement and assessment in organizations (Sage Publications). He has also published over 50 studies in management and leadership research journals. Dr. Fields has been a guest speaker for management and educational organizations in Hong Kong, Lithuania, Russia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, China (P.R.C.), Nepal, and Guatemala. Prior to undertaking an academic career, Dr. Fields worked in business for over 20 years, holding senior management positions in such firms as Deloitte-Touche and MCI Communications Corporation. He also started and developed a small business. Dr. Fields holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology [1994], and BA with honors from Johns Hopkins University [1968].

Education

1994
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia)
Doctor of Philosophy, Management
1968
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics

Work Experience

2019 - Present
Franklin University, Adjunct Faculty & Doctoral Faculty Advisor
1999 - 2015
Regent University, Professor, Virginia Beach, Virginia
1996 - 1999
The George Washington University, Associate Professor, Washington, District Of Columbia
1994 - 1996
City University of Hong King, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong
1990 - 1994
Georgia Institute of technology, Graduate Assistant, Atlanta, Georgia
1986 - 2021
Independent, Independent Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia
1986 - 1990
DMW Inc, Co-owner, Atlanta, Georgia

Publications & Presentations

Fields, D. (2020). School Leadership in an Urban Context: Complicating Notions of Effective Principal Leadership, Organizational Setting, and Teacher Commitment to Students. International Journal of Leadership in Education, DOI:10.1080/13603124.2020.1818133
Fields, D., Bugenhagen, M., Gerhardt, M., & Porter, T. (2018). The Relationship between Motivation to Lead and Gender. The Journal of Social Psychology, 159 (2),138-152, 159 (2), pp. 138-152.
Fields, D. (2002). Taking the measure of work: A guide to validated measures for organizational research and diagnosis. Sage Publications.