Sean Valentine

MGMT 300 Principles of Management

MGMT 302 Human Resource Management

MGMT 310 Organizational Behavior

MGMT 360 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

MGMT 408 Performance Management and Issues in HR

MGMT 494 Readings in Management 

MGMT 412 Training and Development

MGMT 515 Human Relations in Organizations

MGMT 575 Responsible Business Practices

• Business ethics
• Corporate social responsibility
• Social sustainability
• Human resource management
• Organizational behavior
• Expresson of dark traits/behaviors at work
• Workplace bullying, victimizaton, moral outrage, and retaliation/revenge
• Employee health and well-being

Recent Journal Publications

Valentine, S. R., Bateman, C., & Goel, S. (2025). Perceptions of ethics programs and corporate ethical values and a positive work attitude: An application of pluralistic and decoupling frameworks. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.

Giacalone, R. A., & Valentine, S. R. (2025). Investigating the aftermath of moral injury in organizations: Job stress, trauma-induced ill-being, and moral post-traumatic stress disorder as serial outcomes. Journal of Business Research, 199, 115404.

Valentine, S. R., Giacalone, R.A., Yin, B., & Promislo, M. D. (2025). Unethical work polyvictimisation, employee well-being, and work stress. Stress and Health, 41(2), e70014. 

Giacalone, R. A., Valentine, S. R., Yin, B., & Promislo, M. D. (2025). Rage against the dying of the light: Employees' moral outrage, anger expression, and generalized well-being. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-18.

Valentine, S. R., Giacalone, R. A., & Meglich, P. A. (2024). Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics. Personality and Individual Differences, 223, 112615.

Hanson, S. K., Valentine, S. R., & Shultz, P. L. (2024). Bright or dark, vain or villainous? How entrepreneurial fitness, Machiavellianism and narcissism relate to entrepreneurial intention. Journal of Management & Organization, 30(1), 97-120.

Fleischman, G. M., Valentine, S. R., Curtis, M. B., & Mohapatra, P. S. (2023). The influence of ethical beliefs and attitudes, norms, and prior outcomes on cybersecurity investment decisions. Business & Society, 62(3), 488-529.

Schwepker Jr, C. H., Valentine, S. R., Giacalone, R. A., & Promislo, M. (2021). Good barrels yield healthy apples: organizational ethics as a mechanism for mitigating work-related stress and promoting employee well-being. Journal of Business Ethics, 174(1), 143-159.

Bateman, C. R., & Valentine, S. R. (2021). Consumers’ personality characteristics, judgment of salesperson ethical treatment, and nature of purchase involvement. Journal of Business Ethics, 169(2), 309-331.

Recent Presentations

Valentine, S. R. (2025). Ethics training and codes as executive business education programs that enhance employee’s perceptions of organizational sustainability. Working study presented at the Symposium on Sustainability in Executive Business Education Programmes, Salford Business School, Salford, UK, December 4-5. 

Valentine, S. R., Giacalone, R. A. Bateman, C., & Meglich, P. (2025). An eye for an eye at work: Unethical context in organizations and employee victimization and retaliation. Paper presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association, Greenville, South Carolina, October 21-25.

Valentine, S. R. (2025). Using sustainable human resource management practices and individual and organizational sustainability to improve employees’ ethical decision making within a UAS ecosystem. Working study presented at the 19th Annual UAS Summit & Expo, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 14-15.

Goel, S., Ikäheimonen, T., Rautiainen, M., Valentine, S. (2025). On family values and firm value: Ethical perspectives in the transparent design of governance in FBG. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 25-29. 

Bateman, C., Baker, B., McAlexander, B., and Valentine, S. (2025). The use of cognitive or affective empathic salience orientations during an important sales encounter: Positive perceptions of a salesperson, and individual purchase intention. Paper presented at the 2025 National Conference in Sales Management, Covington, KY, March 19-21.

Certificates

Business Ethics: Essentials and Best Practices Certificate, Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, 2007

Awards 

Best Paper Award, Midwest Academy of Management Meeting, Moorhead, MN, 2024

Best Paper Award, Academy of Business Research Fall Conference, Biloxi, MS, 2023

Meritorious (Best) Paper Award, Southwest Academy of Management Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2022

Overall Meritorious Faculty Award, Nistler College of Business and Public Administration, 2020-2021

Top Reviewers list—Journal of Business Ethics, 2022 (#6), 2021 (#6), 2020 (#9), 2019 (#13), 2016 (#2), 2013 (#2)

Best Paper Award, Midwest Academy of Management (Virtual) Meeting, 2020

Meritorious Research Award, CoBPA, University of North Dakota, 2016-2017

Meritorious Teaching, Research, and Service Award, CoBPA, University of North Dakota, 2015-2016

Ranked #4 in overall “Author Ranks” list and #1 in “Rising Stars” list—Warnick, B. J., Rodrigo, P., Albrecht, C. O., & Stephens, N. M. (2014). Individual scholar productivity rankings in business ethics research. Innovar, 24(54), 183-198.

Established Faculty Scholarly Recognition Award, CoBPA, University of North Dakota, 2013

Best Track Paper, Business Ethics and Sustainability Track, Irish Academy of Management, 2012

Citation of Excellence Award, Emerald Management Reviews, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012 (study published in Journal of Business Ethics chosen as one of top 50 articles for citation impact from top 300 management journals)

North Dakota Spirit Faculty Achievement Award—University of North Dakota, 2012

Outstanding Author Contribution Award, Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2011

Professor of the Year, Beta Gamma Sigma—University of North Dakota, 2011

North Dakota Spirit Faculty Achievement Award—University of North Dakota, 2011

North Dakota Spirit Faculty Achievement Award—University of North Dakota, 2010

Faculty Meritorious Award for Excellence in Research—CoBPA, University of North Dakota, 2008-2009

Master Distance Educator—Wyoming Distance Education Consortium, 2008

Hollon Award for Teaching Excellence in University of Wyoming Off-Campus Programs—University of Wyoming, 2007

Lybrand Silver Medal Research Paper Award—Institute of Management Accountants, 2007

Governor Geringer Promising Young Scholar Award—University of Wyoming, 2005-2007

College of Business Junior Teaching Award-University of Wyoming, 2003-2004

College of Business Junior Research Award-University of Wyoming, 2001-2002

Best Paper Award, Western Academy of Management Meeting, Sun Valley, Idaho, 2001

Literati Club Highly Commended Award—Women in Management Review, 2001

D.B.A. in Management, Louisiana Tech University, 1999

M.B.A. in Business Administration, Texas State University, 1996

B.S. in Hotel, Restaurant, Tourism Management, New Mexico State University, 2012

B.S. in Management/Human Resources (Magna Cum Laude), Park University, 1992