FACULTY PROFILE

Daniels Fund Professorship in Business Ethics Awarded to UW’s Thiel

Chase Thiel, an associate professor of management at the University of Wyoming, recently was named the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program Professor of Business Ethics. Thiel is the first recipient of this position through the Daniels Fund.

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program Professorship of Business Ethics is awarded to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in scholarly activity that advances the mission of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at UW.

“I am humbled and honored to be the first holder of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program Professorship of Business Ethics,” Thiel says. “The Daniels Fund is an organization with an inspiring mission. The initiatives they support at the University of Wyoming, under the guidance of the Bill Daniels Chair of Business Ethics, have had a tremendous impact on students.”

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program Professor of Business Ethics assists the Bill Daniels Chair of Business Ethics in fulfilling campus obligations to the Daniels Fund. As the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program Professor of Business Ethics, Thiel will advance student learning in ethics by teaching courses in the ethics curriculum; advise the UW team in the annual Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program Case Competition; administer the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Faculty Fellows program at UW; and evaluate the impact of the university’s ethics curriculum.

“Thousands of students have been prepared to make ethical decisions and otherwise live with integrity because of Daniels Fund support to the University of Wyoming,” Thiel says. “I am excited about advancing the work of the Daniels Fund through new curricular and extracurricular opportunities for students.”

Thiel earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in industrial/organizational psychology, with a minor in quantitative psychology, from the University of Oklahoma, and a B.S. in psychology from Idaho State University. His primary research examines unethical behavior in the workplace, with a special emphasis on understanding the causes of unethical behavior through a behavioral lens; expanding current definitions and measures of unethical behavior; identifying practices that encourage ethical behavior; and understanding the role and tactics of ethical leaders in the creation and maintenance of ethical workplaces.

His research has appeared or is forthcoming in leading management journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Business Ethics. Thiel has received several research awards, including the Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty.

Thiel teaches courses at the undergraduate and MBA levels on topics such as organizational behavior, human resource management, talent acquisition and leadership. He recently developed the new interdisciplinary leadership minor and Cowboy Leadership Certificate.

For more information about business ethics education at UW, go to www.uwyo.edu/ethics.