Interview of Joseph A. Alutto by Raimund Goerler

Interview conducted at The Ohio State University Archives, Columbus, Ohio on August 3 and 5, 2015.Joseph A. Alutto describes his career, both at The Ohio State University and at other academic institutions. After graduating from Manhattan College, Alutto earned his master’s degree in industrial relations at the University of Illinois. He then earned a doctorate from Cornell University, and he started teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo in the School of Management. While there, he agreed at one point to become interim dean, and that turned into a permanent position. He then describes the circumstances that led to his obtaining a position as Dean of the College of Business at OSU. Throughout the interview, Alutto describes various programs offered through each business school, the culture of both business schools and universities, and funding models of each. While discussing OSU, Alutto talks about the changes he implemented at the College of Business, his transition to Provost, and his service twice as interim President. Subjects that are discussed include a reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences, the change to semesters, changes to the criteria used to award faculty with tenure, the One University concept, shared governance and transparency, the medical center and medical school’s roles at the University, and changes to the undergraduate experience, including the requirement for sophomores to live on campus

Extensions to the individualized leadership approach: placing the approach in context

We show that the commentaries by Ferris and Cook as well as by Mumford provide various ways to further develop the notion of individualized leadership. Using the general model presented at the end of this book, we illustrate how the leadership core concept of individualized leadership differs from other core approaches to leadership. In addition, the antecedents of and outcomes from individualized leadership suggested in the commentaries are discussed. Finally, the boundary conditions (moderator variables) and mediating variables discussed in the commentaries are questioned. All of these issues are considered from theoretical and empirical perspective