{"id":395,"date":"2018-03-05T14:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:17:25","slug":"michael-fields-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/home\/directory\/michael-fields-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Fields, PhD, MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Assistant Professor of Business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Phone: 541.962.3870<\/a>
Email: mkfields@eou.edu<\/a>
Office: ZH-213<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degrees Earned<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Ph.D. in Global Leadership with a concentration in Organizational Management, Indiana Institute of Technology<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Master\u2019s in Business Administration with a concentration in Organizational Leadership, University of Indianapolis<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • BS Media Arts and Science, Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Dr. Fields began his academic career in 2009 as an adjunct, teaching one computer technology course, while working full-time.  Over the next few years he taught as an adjunct, or part-time, for up to 5 colleges or universities simultaneously, some semesters having a course load of 6 or 7 classes.  In 2013, he took a full-time assistant professor and program manager of business position at NMSU Grants.  Prior to and since arriving at EOU in 2015 he has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on a wide range of business, management and leadership topics.  Dr. Fields is also a Faculty Advisor to our chapter of the International Honor Society Sigma Beta Delta, a leading honor society for business, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting undergraduate and graduate student achievement in business, management, and administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In addition to teaching, Dr. Fields has maintained an active research agenda, including his dissertation on the impact of precollege characteristics, the college experience, and study abroad on students\u2019 intercultural competence.  He is currently leading the \u201cCultural Mentoring Project\u201d that places international students as cultural mentors with domestic students as a conduit for cultural exchange conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Fields has been active in coaching youth sports.  He coaches football, basketball, baseball and softball.  Outside of work he enjoys time with his wife and 5 children usually at the sports fields\/courts, or when they can get away, travelling or camping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Courses Regularly Taught:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    • BA 101 Introduction to Business in the Global Environment<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 220 Gender, Work & Society<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 225 Business Communications<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 303 Information and Data Management<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 321 Principles of Management<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 347 Workplace Diversity<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 461 Organizational Behavior<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 462 Leadership and the Leadership Process<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 506 Global Business Intelligence (MBA)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 522 Emotional Intelligence and Managerial Effectiveness (MBA)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • BA 699 MBA Capstone<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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      Assistant Professor of Business Phone: 541.962.3870Email: mkfields@eou.eduOffice: ZH-213 Degrees Earned Dr. Fields began his academic career in 2009 as an adjunct, teaching one computer technology course, while working full-time.  Over the next few years he taught as an adjunct, or part-time, for up to 5 colleges or universities simultaneously, some semesters having a course load […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":3389,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-395","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/3622"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/college-of-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}