Banta Center for Business, Ethics and Society
Lecture Series
David J. Cherrington, Professor of Organizational Behavior
Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University
“Moral Leadership: No one can be a truly great transformational leader
without being a moral person.”
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 6:00 pm
University of Redlands, Casa Loma Room
Light refreshments beginning at 5:30pm
Please RSVP to Joanie_James@redlands.edu or (909) 748-8771 on or
before Monday, February 25, 2008.
David J. Cherrington is a professor of organizational leadership and strategy at Brigham Young University. He
is the author of The Management of Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Rearing Responsible
Children and The Work Ethic: Working Values and Values that Work, and Moral Leadership and Ethical
Decision Making, in addition to dozens of scholarly articles on similar topics.
He was a member of an inter-disciplinary research team studying the causes of fraud and white-collar crime
from 1978 to 1980 and has been active since then studying problems of dishonesty. His research has
included extensive data analysis from questionnaires, qualitative research from interviews of convicts, and
seminars with students and executives. In 1986 he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in
Washington D.C.
Prior to teaching at BYU, Professor Cherrington taught at the University of Illinois and the University of
Wisconsin. He is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management and the Academy of
Management. He has served as President of the Personnel Association of Central Utah and as the National
Director of Codification and Research for the Human Resource Certification Institute. He is certified as a
Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and served from 1989 to 1995 as a member of the national
HRCI board of directors.
He attended Utah State University and Brigham Young University where he received a bachelor of science in
1966 with a major in psychology and a minor in mathematics. He also attended Indiana University where he
received
an
MBA
and
Doctors
degree in
Business
Administration
(DBA)
in 1970.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Inland Empire Management Society, who will offer continuing
education credit (CEE) through Brigham Young University for attendance of this event. For more
information go to the Banta Center for Business, Ethics and Society web site at
http://www.redlands.edu/cbes.xml and follow the “Upcoming Events” link.