Dr. Paul Poppler

  • Title: Professor
  • College: College of Business
  • Email Address: [email protected]
  • Remote Office Phone: 1.402.617-8069
  • Office Location: Remote office
  • Subject(s):
    • Human Capital
    • Human Resources
    • Research Methods
    • Management Policy
    • Ethics
  • Degrees Awarded:
    • BA (University of St. Thomas)
    • MAIR (University of Minnesota)
    • PhD (University of Nebraska)
  • Experience:
    • 07/95 - Present: Professor, CoB, Bellevue University. Bellevue, NE
    • 08/92 – 06/95: Assistant Professor, CBA, St. John’s University. Queens, NY
    • 08/87 - 07/92: PhD Program, CBA, University of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE
    • 06/82 - 06/87: Instructor & MBA Coordinator, CBA, Minnesota State University. Mankato, MN
    • 1970 – 1981: Family business, MN National Guard, Retail sales, Real-estate sales, Secondary education, United Parcel Service
  • Human Capital and Human Resources
  • Research Methods
  • Management Policy
  • Ethics
  • Stark, E., & Poppler, P. (2019). Knocking at the door: An exploratory field study of cadre membership from the leader’s perspective. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 19(3): 103-120.
  • Stark, E., & Poppler, P. (2017). Gray, idiosyncratic, and generative: Fathoming the new old workforce. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 17(6): 10-24
  • Stark, E., & Poppler, P. (2017). Workplace difference among intergenerational cohorts: A demonstrable concern for management? The Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship. 22(1): 68-85.
  • Youssef-Morgan, C., Poppler, P., Stark, E., and Ashley, G. (2017). Human-derived capital: The search for Yeti or an evidence based approach? In Meir, R. (Ed.) Human capital and assets in the networked world. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, Limited.
  • Stark, E., & Poppler P. (2017). Evolution of a strange pathology: HRM as a strategic business partner and employee advocate in the USA. Employee Responsibility and Rights Journal, 29(1): 1-14..
  • Stark, E., & Poppler P. (2016 Summer). What are they thinking? Employers requiring college degrees for low-skilled jobs. Society for Advanced Management Journal (SAM), 81(3): 17-26.
  • Stark, E., Stepanovich, P., Hopkins, P., and Poppler, P. (2015). Requiring college degrees for low-skilled jobs: Accounting for employer motivations. Eighth EuroMed Conference Readings Book Proceedings, ISBN: 978-9963-711-37-6), 1650-1661 emrbi.org
  • Stark, E., Poppler, P., & Ashley, G. (2014). Protect gerontocracies or make a path for the young? Rethinking the case for mandatory retirement age. In S. Sturgeon and E. Stark (Eds.) RIThink, 3, 50-57.
  • Stark, E., & Poppler P. (2012). Revisiting college credentials as employment hurdles and claims about human capital. People and Strategy, 36(2): 24–29.
  • Poppler, P., Stark, E., Ashley, G., & Youssef, C. (2012). The RBV human capital competitive advantage argument: Moving from ex-ante claims to empirical evidence. In Pancholi, J., & Shuka, P. (Eds.) 2012 Emerging Markets Conference, London, UK: International Management Research Academy.
  • Stark, E., P. Poppler, & J. Murnane (2011). Looking for evidence of human capital (or the lack thereof) in college/university degrees held by managerial level employees. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, 13(1): 60-80.
  • Stark, E., Poppler, P., & Ashley, G. (2010). Postsecondary education and counterproductive work behaviors: Evidence of human capital? Conference paper. The Academy of Management Conference. Montreal, Canada.
  • Poppler, P. & E. Stark (2010). Rare and inimitable: Creating human capital advantage. Chief Learning Officer Magazine. 9(5): 26–48 (5 pages).
  • Poppler, P. (2009). Strategic human capital: Modeling for measurement. Innovation at Work, July (Human Capital Lab Newsletter, Bellevue University).
  • Stark, E. & P. Poppler (2009). Performance evaluations and all the usual suspects. Personnel Review, 38(3): 320-338.
  • Stark, E., Stepanovich, P., Poppler, P., & P. Hopkins (2008). Surrounded by whitewater: Conflict in management sciences regarding truth and reality. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, 9(3): 258-274.
  • Stark, E., & Poppler, P. (2007). Reflecting on twenty-five years of diversity, generation of human capital, and the writings of Maruyama. Proceedings of the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management: 230-234, Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management. Reno, NV.
  • Stark, E., Stepanovich, P., Poppler, P., & Hopkins, P. (2007). Surrounded by white water: Battlefields in academia and their Implications for consultancies. Electronic Proceedings of the Western Academy of Management (ID- #7), Western Academy of Management. Missoula, MT.
  • Stark, E., Thomas, L., & Poppler, P. (2000). Can Personality Matter More Than Justice? A study of downsizing and layoff survivors in the USA and implications for cross cultural study. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference of the Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Stark, E., Thomas, L. T., & Poppler, P. (1999). The relationship between psychological disposition, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment under varying conditions of organizational change: Accounting for survivors and walking wounded. Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Management, Lincoln, NE.
  • Poppler, P., Wankel, C., & Carey, J. P. (1995). Case 17.1: The Bengal tiger restaurant. In Lewis, R. C., Chambers, R. E., & E. H. Chacko (Eds.), Marketing Leadership in Hospitality (second edition): 757-761. New York, NY: Van Nostrand-Reinhold.
  • Poppler, P. (1993). An empirical investigation of escalatory strategic decision making: A prospect theory interpretation. Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), Volume-Issue 54-01A, pp. 0245. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms Incorporated
  • Poppler, P. (1991). The labor force and industrial relations law. In Zilly, R.G. (Ed.), Contractor’s Management Handbook (second edition 4.1-4.18). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Ganster, D.C., Williams, S.W., & Poppler, P. (1991). Does training in problem solving improve the quality of group decisions? Journal of Applied Psychology, 76(3): 479-483.
  • June 2014: Bellevue President’s Award to PhD program faculty and developers (shared award)
  • November 2002: Outstanding Reviewer Award in Organization Theory. Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Conference. Denver, CO.
  • November 2001: Outstanding Reviewer Award in Organization Theory. Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Conference. Charlestown, SC.
  • June 2000: Best Online Course Developer for Academic Year 2000-2001. Granted by the College of Distributed Learning, Bellevue University. Bellevue, NE.
  • August 1998: Outstanding Reviewer Award in Management Education Division. The Academy of Management Conference. San Diego, CA.
  • Spring 1994: Co-author of a St. John’s University Business Research Institute (internal grant): Managerial Perceptions of Virtual Organization Strategies. Queens, NY.
  • Spring 1993: Co-author of a St. John’s University Business Research Institute (internal grant): Entrepreneurial Rebirth in Lithuania. Queens, NY.
  • Spring 1991: Outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching Award. Granted by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln College of Business Administration. Lincoln, NE.

Visiting Planning Consultant, May 1995: Member of the St. John's University & Archdiocese of Lithuania Research Charrette. A multi-discipline Planning Task Force dedicated to recovery and restoration of a 14th Century Catholic monastery that was seized by the former Soviet Union in 1938. Vilnius, Lithuania.

Visiting Professor, March - May 1993: St. John's University Professor working with Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Archdiocese in the re-introduction of capitalism after Lithuania's separation from the former Soviet Union.

Conferences: Has attended over 50 academic, professional, or special project conferences, the majority of which included formal roles such as presenter, session chair, reviewer, discussant, or site researcher.

Doctoral Committee Work: Has served as a chair or internal reader on 11 completed PhD dissertations.