Stratton, Micheal

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Education

Ph.D., Public Administration and Policy (Organizational Theory and Behavior), University at Albany (SUNY), 2006

Master in Public Administration (Organizational Analysis, Development, and Change), University at Albany (SUNY), 2003

Bachelor of Arts, Integrated Liberal Studies (Management and Political Science), Western New England University, 2000

Bio

Dr. Micheal T. Stratton is Professor of Management at the American University in Bulgaria. Dr. Stratton’s teaching and research interests include a cross-disciplinary exploration of workplace behavior, organizational politics, and pedagogy.

During his years as a faculty and academic leader, he has consulted with government agencies and worked closely with numerous practitioners across various Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to his AUBG appointment, Dr. Stratton served as Dean and Professor of Management from 2020-2024 in the J. Whitney College of Business and Technology at Georgia College & State University, Georgia’s dedicated public liberal arts university.

As Chief Academic Officer for the college, Dr. Stratton was responsible and accountable for the strategic and academic direction of its operations, including AACSB and ABET accreditations, 70+ faculty/staff, budget management, faculty welfare and development, and student success.

The Bunting College enrolled more than 2000 with students in Accounting, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Finance, Management, Management Information Systems, and Marketing. From 2010-2020, Dr. Stratton was AACSB Unit Head and Chair in the Department of Management and Accountancy at The University of North Carolina (UNC) Asheville, where he also served on the faculty as a tenured Professor of Management.

Dr. Stratton served two terms as Chair of UNC Asheville’s Faculty Senate and received the university’s Distinguished Service Award in 2017, as well as the UNC Asheville Board of Trustees Resolution for Service Leadership and Shared Governance in 2019.

In 2022, he completed a three-term as President of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, (MOBTS), a 50+ year-old international organization dedicated to enhancing the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning in the management and organization disciplines. As an active teacher-scholar himself, Dr. Stratton has published more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is a Fellow of MOBTS and is currently an Associate Editor of the Management Teaching Review.

In 2006, he received his PhD in Public Administration and Policy, specializing in Organizational Theory and Behavior from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany, State University of New York. He has an undergraduate degree in integrated liberal studies from Western New England University, where he developed a curriculum that intersected the study of organizations from various disciplines, including political science, economics, and management.

The integration of his teaching and scholarship is intentional. His cross-disciplinary research on emotions, stress, work-life balance, injustice, and technology provides a theoretical lens from which students can study workplace behaviors. The pedagogical scholarship has developed out of his own teaching innovations, contributing greatly to the learner experience; the exercises, written cases, and video vignettes have been effectively incorporated into the classroom.

Dr. Stratton’s SoTL contributions have also been recognized by peers with invitations and appointments to serve as Associate Editor of the Management Teaching Review (2023-2024), as Guest Co-Editor for the Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) special issue on academic careers (2019), as a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Education (JME), as a member of the Editorial Board for the Organization Management Journal (OMJ), and currently as a senior Associate Editor for the Management Teaching Review, among others.