Ricky W. Griffin co-authored Business Essentials, 2/e with Ronald J. Ebert.

Ricky W. Griffin was born and raised in Corsicana, Texas. He received his B.A. from North Texas State University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He served on he faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1978 until 1981, when he joined the faculty at Texas A&M. In 1990, he was named the university's Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration.

Dr. Griffin's research interests include leadership, workplace violence, and international management. He has done consulting in the areas of task design, employee motivation, and quality circles for such organizations as Baker-Hughes, Texas Instruments, Six Flags Corporation, Texas Commerce Bank, and AT&T. His research has won two Academy of Management Research Awards (both in the Organizational Behavior division) and one Texas A&M University Research Award.

Dr. Griffin currently serves as the Director of the Center for Human Resource Management at Texas A&M. In addition to Business, he is the author or co-author of five books and more than 40 journal articles and book chapters.

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