Biography
Edmund Stazyk serves as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His scholarship applies organization theory and behavioral insights to core questions in public management, public administration, and human resource management. He studies organizational and individual performance, with particular emphasis on employee motivation, as well as bureaucracy, organizational design, ethics, and human capital.
His research appears in leading journals, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Public Administration, the American Review of Public Administration, Administration & Society, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. He has also co-edited two books and authored multiple book chapters.
Stazyk is a fellow of the Center for Organizational Research and Design at Arizona State University and the Local Government Workplace Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also serves on several editorial boards. Prior to joining the Baker School, he held faculty appointments at American University and the University at Albany.
His public service experience includes roles as a town councilor, planning commissioner and a public service district board member in West Virginia—grounding his academic work in practical governance.
He earned a PhD in public administration from the University of Kansas, an MPA from the University of Akron, and a BA in public administration from Miami University (Ohio).
Education
- B.A., Public Administration minor in Classical Literature, Miami University
- M.P.A., Public Personnel Management and Policy and Program Evaluation, University of Akron
- Ph.D., Public Administration, University of Kansas
Publications
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Motivation in Public Administration
Handbook of American Public Administration
Experience, Emotion, and Exhaustion: How Unionization Influences Emotional Labor