Eric R. Kushins, PhD

I am Assistant Professor of Management at the Campbell School of Business at Berry College in Mount Berry, GA. I completed a joint-Ph.D. in Sociology and Organization Management from Rutgers University.

 

I am primarily engaged in two streams of research. The first focuses on family firms, and I employ sociological concepts, theories and methods to investigate gender, race and interpersonal dynamics, access to resources and entrepreneurial limitations within this form of business governance. I engage a variety of data, from the Census, advisor websites, interviews, and multi-year ethnographic field notes.

 

My second area of research investigates discrimination in the employment process. I have used experimental methods, including recorded interviewee voices, matched resumes and videos in these studies. This work has included speaker voice and race attribution and reemployment for stay-at-home dads. See my published research here.

 

I teach undergraduate and MBA students in a variety of courses, including Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, The Art of Negotiations, and Team Dynamics.

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In addition, I am a certified Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt and I conduct team building, leadership and process improvement workshops and certificate programs for companies ranging from healthcare to agriculture to energy. I have trained hundreds of individuals in LSS Yellow and Green Belt programs, and oversaw dozens of projects in a variety of industries.

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