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Lyman W. Porter

Lyman W. Porter is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lyman W. Porter rather than just read about it. In short: Lyman William Porter (c. 1930 – July 2, 2015) was an American academic administrator. He was the dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine from 1972 to 1983.

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Reference excerpt

Lyman William Porter (c. 1930 – July 2, 2015) was an American academic administrator. He was the dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine from 1972 to 1983. He was the co-author of many books of management, and "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior."

Early life Lyman William Porter was born in 1930 in Lafayette, Indiana. His father, Charles Lyman Porter, was a professor of biology at Purdue University. Porter graduated from Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, and he received a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1956.

Career Porter began his career in the Psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University of California, Irvine as assistant dean of its Paul Merage School of Business in 1967, and served as the dean from 1972 to 1983. Porter was the president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology from 1975 to 1976. With Mark Rosenzweig, he was the co-editor of the Annual Review of Psychology from 1974 to 1994. He was a founding trustee of the American University of Armenia. Porter was "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior," and he "played a major role in ensuring that organizational behavior would become an important component of modern business education." He retired from academia in 1992.

Personal life, death and legacy Porter married Meredith Anne; they had one son and a daughter. They resided in Newport Beach, California. Porter died on July 2, 2015, in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 85. He is the namesake of the Dr. Lyman W. Porter Colloquium Room at UC Irvine.

Selected works Haire, Mason; Ghiselli, Edwin E.; Porter, Lyman W. (1966). Managerial Thinking: An International Study. New York: Wiley. OCLC 229602. Porter, Lyman W.; Lawler, Edward E. III (1968). Managerial Attitudes and Performance. Homewood, Illinois: R. D. Irwin. OCLC 243614. Porter, Lyman W.; Lawler, Edward E. III; Hackman, J. Richard (1974). Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070505278. OCLC 898052. Steers, Richard M.; Porter, Lyman W. (1975). Motivation and Work Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070609402. OCLC 1121255. Hackman, J. Richard; Lawler, Edward E. III; Porter, Lyman W., eds. (1977). Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070254138. OCLC 2542495. Mowday, Richard T.; Lyman, Porter W.; Steers, Richard M. (1982). Employee-organization Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 9780125093705. OCLC 7924834. Porter, Lyman W.; McKibbin, Lawrence E. (1988). Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century?. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070505216. OCLC 17551842. Porter, Lyman W.; Angle, Harold L.; Allen, Robert W., eds. (2003). Organizational Influence Processes. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765611345. OCLC 50638478. Hitt, Michael A.; Black, Stewart; Porter, Lyman W. (2005). Management. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130088475. OCLC 56413645.

References

External links Lyman Porter Tribute at the Paul Merage School of Business on YouTube

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lyman W. Porter

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lyman W. Porter ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lyman W. Porter

In research: Lyman W. Porter appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lyman W. Porter in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lyman W. Porter is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1930 births, 2015 deaths, Academics from Newport Beach, California, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lyman W. Porter outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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