Dean Amy B. Henley

Amy Henley is the dean and professor of management at the UND Nistler College of Business & Public Administration. 

She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Arlington in the area of organizational behavior and psychology. Prior to her current position, Henley was executive director of MBA Programs and associate professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University.

Henley previously held the role of assistant chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Coles College of Business and taught students primarily in the master’s and doctoral programs.

Henley has taught management courses at the University of Southern Mississippi, University of Texas at Arlington, and Kennesaw State University. Her teaching areas have focused on organizational behavior and human resources, and she has served as doctoral advisor for multiple successful doctoral students. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master’s of Business Administration degree from The University of Southern Mississippi. She worked in Dallas, Texas, in transportation logistics and financial analysis prior to earning her doctoral degree.

Henley’s research interests include distributive and procedural justice, compensation and pay fairness, and intragroup processes. Dr. Henley has co-authored papers that have appeared in academic journals such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Management Journal, Personality and Individual Differences, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of Management Education, Academy of Management Executive, and Organizational Dynamics.

She has presented research at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Additionally, Henley has served in multiple leadership roles for the Southern Management Association, including as a member of the Board of Governors, Secretary/Membership Chair, and Doctoral Student Consortium director.