The “Moments that Matter” for Fred Luthans's Academic Career

In an interview, Fred Luthans, former professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, talked about his academic career. He said that Henry Albers, his mentor, certainly give him major credit for his doctoral education and advice and encouragement to pursue the then newly emerging management field, instead of economics, which he had considered. A defining moment triggered him into Organizational Behavior (OB) Mod. He wrote the first articles on behavioral management starting in 1971. He really got into this paradigm because of its logical positivism roots and because their continuing research was showing such a significant impact on performance outcomes in all types of settings.