School of Management — Organizations Leadership and Communication

Linda S Henderson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Chair

Dr. Henderson brings many years of experience in project management, organizational development (OD), change management and business process reengineering to her academic teaching and research. Her clients have included Visa International, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, Cadence Design Systems, TRW Information Systems, Dell Computers, Blue Shield of California, and Genentech. Globally, she has consulted for internationl firms in Denmark, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Taiwan.

Linda has presented her research findings at Academy of Management meetings and other professional organizations, and is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Project Organization and Management. She has also served as the founding director of the project management graduate program and co-director of the organizational behavior undergraduate program at USF. Previously, Linda has been on the faculty at The College of William and Mary, California State University Long Beach and San Francisco State University.

Research from Linda's dissertation launched Management Communication Quarterly and served as an impetus to begin integrated and interdisciplinary research in this field. At present, Dr. Henderson is writing a research article on team communication conundrums when working on virtual projects as a follow-up to her 2012 presentation at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference.

Honors and Awards

Erasmus Mundus (European Union) scholarship, project management, Umea University, Sweden

Visiting researcher in complexity science, Santa Fe Institute

Two Best Competitive Paper awards, Academy of Management

Education

Ph.D., Organizational Communication, Florida State University
M.S., Communications, Texas Christian University
B.S., Speech Communication/Theatre, University of Nevada, Reno

Teaching
  • Project Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Consulting Practices
  • MBA Communication Courses
Publications

Linda's most recent peer reviewed articles include:

Henderson, L.S., Stackman, R.W. and Koh, C.Y. (2013). Women project managers: The exploration of their job challenges and issue selling behaviors. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 6 (4), in press.

Henderson, L.S., & Stackman, R.W. (2010). An exploratory study of gender in project management: Interrelationships with role, location, technology and project cost. Project Management Journal, 41 (5), 37-55.

Henderson, L.S. (2008). The impact of project manager's communication competencies: Validation and extension of a research model for virtuality, satisfaction and productivity on project teams. Project Management Journal, 39 (2), 48-59.