Michael Busch, PhD

Mike Busch is am adjunct professor at Jones International University, a position he has held for the last 5 years. He has taught Team Effectiveness, Making Ethical Decisions, Conflict Management, and Judgment and Decision Making to MBA students. Previously he has taught graduate students in the Masters of Management program at Aquinas College and in the Seidman School of Business at Grand Valley State University.

He is a member of the National Communication Association, served as an article reviewer, and adviser for university program development.

His research interests include the relationship between communication skill and leadership philosophy.

He has coached over 200 managers and leaders in the areas of managing work conversations, such as tension filled difficult conversations, and task assignment and performance satisfaction conversations, doing good group work, strategic thinking, judgment and decision making in leadership.

He is currently editing a book on Communication and Relationships for publishing in 2009. He has authored several articles Linking strategic planning to the management of people. In N.J. Pfieffer “Ed”, 1990 Annual; Developing Human Resources, Organizational strategy for successful people management, Mid-American Journal of Business, Spring 1989, and Productivity Improvement; A case study. QC Trends, 1987.

He has been interviewed for publication by Tom Peter’s Group about innovations in performance reviews (July 1988) and (Interview with Mike Busch) and by Training Magazine (1987) about the relationship between profits and participation.