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Program
Director and Associate Professor, Project
Management Program
Email: hendersonli@usfca.edu
Telephone: 415-422-5459
Curriculum Vitae
Brief Biography
Dr. Linda Henderson, a native of San Francisco, works as an associate
professor and the founding director of the M.S. degree program in project
management. She is also the former co-director of the B.S. degree program
in organizational behavior and leadership.
Linda complements her academic responsibilities with twelve years of experience
in business and industry where she worked as an internal and external consultant
in project management, organizational effectiveness, change management
and business process reengineering. She also has managed web-based learning
projects in the high tech industry.
Linda’s research interests integrate communication, project management,
and complexity to understand better the competencies that influence satisfaction
and productivity in projects, and the emergent complexity dynamics in organizations.
She is the past recipient of two best competitive papers from the Academy
of Management. Findings from her recent study, An exploratory study of
gender and contextual factors in project management, will be presented
in Chicago at the August 2009 annual meeting of the Academy of Management.
Her recent publications include:
HENDERSON, L.S. (2008). The impact of project managers’ communication
competencies: Validation and extension of a research model for virtuality,
satisfaction, and productivity on project teams. Project Management Journal,
39 (2), 48—59.
Bloch, D. P., HENDERSON, L. S., and Stackman, R. W. (2007). Emergence
of a social inquiry group: A story of fractals and networks. World Futures:
The Journal of General Evolution, 63, 194-208.
Stackman, R. W., HENDERSON, L. S., and Bloch, D. P. (2006). Emergence
and community: The story of three complex adaptive entities. Emergence:
Complexity and Organization, 8 (3), 78-91.
HENDERSON, L.S. 2005. Reflecting on Athens 2004: What we can learn about
modern project management from ancient Olympian archetypes. Organization
Development Journal, 23 (4), 10-19.
HENDERSON, L.S. 2004. Encoding and decoding communication competencies
in project management – an exploratory study, International Journal
of Project Management, 22 (6), 469-476.
Dr. Henderson received her Ph.D. in organizational communication from Florida
State University, her M.S. in communications from Texas Christian University,
and her B.S. in secondary education and speech communication from the University
of Nevada, Reno.
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