University of Pittsburgh Professor Audrey Murrell Named Director of the David Berg Center for Ethics & Leadership in Pitt's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

PITTSBURGH—University of Pittsburgh Professor Audrey Murrell has been named the new director of the David Berg Center for Ethics & Leadership in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business (KGSB) and College of Business Administration. Murrell is an associate professor of business administration in KGSB, with joint appointments in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences.

The David Berg Center for Ethics & Leadership was created through a generous gift from David Berg, an alumnus of the University, to be an outstanding center for the understanding, promotion, and development of ethical business leadership. The center focuses on the education of undergraduate business students through a certificate program in leadership and ethics that immerses students in the principles of ethics and leadership. It also supports important research into the area of ethics and leadership by faculty and undergraduate students.

The center also invites members of the business community to share their expertise in the classroom and in strategic planning for the center, as well as by contributing to ongoing education in business ethics through outreach events.

Murrell joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. She conducts research, teaches, and works with organizations on strategies to enhance overall effectiveness by utilizing their most valuable assets—their human and social capital. She conducts extensive research on building capacity of people and outcomes at work with a special emphasis on enhancing outcomes for women. This includes topics such as mentoring, breaking the "glass ceiling," diversity, and workplace discrimination. Her work has been published widely in management and psychology, and she is the author (along with Faye Crosby and Robin Ely) of "Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships Within Multicultural Organizations" (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999), and the forthcoming book (with Sheila Forte and Diana Bing) "Blue Mentoring: Innovative Mentoring for Organizational Learning at IBM."

Murrell serves as a consultant in the areas of mentoring, organizational effectiveness, teamwork, diversity, and leadership development. Her clients have included Alcoa, IBM, Heinz, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Kaiser Permanente, Fed-Ex Ground, Executive Leadership Council, YWCA, Carnegie Libraries, Human Engineering Research Labs, and several universities. She has also served on the Allegheny County Department of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Certification Appeals Board and is a former chair of the Gender and Diversity in Organizational Division of the Academy of Management Association. Audrey is also the chair of the Board of Directors for Urban Youth Action, Inc.

Murrell received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in psychology from the University of Delaware in 1987 and 1985, respectively, and the B.S. degree in psychology, magna cum laude, from Howard University in 1983.

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