Fred Luthans

Fred Luthans
Born	June 28, 1939 Clinton, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Occupation	Academic
Employer	University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Fred Luthans (born June 28, 1939 in Clinton, Iowa) is a management professor specializing in organizational behavior. He is the emeritus University and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Luthans graduated with all degrees from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in mathematics in 1961, and then obtained his MBA in 1962, and Ph.D. in management and social psychology in 1965. Henry Albers and Max Wortman were his major academic advisers at Iowa. He also took post-doctoral seminars in management at Columbia University while serving in the United States Army stationed at United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y,.

After service as an Army Captain teaching psychology and leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY from 1965–1967, Luthans joined the faculty of the Department of Management at the University of Nebraska where he has remained to pursue his entire academic career. In 1986 the Academy of Management elected him to its presidency and in 1997 he received the Distinguished Management Educator Award and in 2017 the Organizational Behavior Lifetime Achievement Award.

Luthans was one of the first management scholars to apply behavioral science to better understanding and effectively manage human behavior in organizations. This evolved into the now widely recognized discipline of organizational behavior, by far the largest division in the Academy of Management. His book Organizational Behavior. (now in its 13th edition), is generally recognized as the first mainline text (1973) in this field.

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