Dr. Russell Hassan’s areas of expertise include leadership, public management, and organizational behavior. His work bridges the fields of Public Management and Organizational Behavior. He is currently pursuing several lines of research. He has done extensive research on how leadership practices and perceptions about work environment shape work attitudes and behaviors of public sector employees, particularly those who work in law enforcement. The second area of his research focuses on how social identity and relational differences shape experiences and career outcomes of underrepresented groups in public organizations. An emerging line of Professor Hassan’s research focuses on how job demands and resources shape work attitudes and behaviors of criminal justice actors. His research has appeared in a wide range of outlets including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Dr. Hassan is currently a co-editor of the International Public Management Journal. He was the 2019-2020 Division Chair of the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management and the Communications Secretary of the International Research Society for Public Management (2014-2020). He represents Glenn College at The Ohio State University Senate and served as the 2020-2021 Chair of the Senate Diversity Committee.
Professor Hassan earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany (Rockefeller College of Public Affairs). He is affiliated with the Local Government Research Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Center for Organization Research and Design at the Arizona State University.