Affiliation: California State University San Bernardino
Email: cseal@csusb.edu

Biography

Dr. Craig R. Seal is a tenured Professor in the Management Department in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration (JHBC) at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB).

He has also served as the Associate Vice President and Dean of Undergraduate Studies for CSUSB, as well as the Associate Dean of Student Success & Assessment, the MBA Director in JHBC. Before coming to CSUSB, he was the inaugural Director of Center for Social and Emotional Competence at the University of the Pacific and was an Assistant Professor of Commerce at Niagara University.

He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from George Washington University (where he was awarded the 2006 Board of Advisors Doctoral Student Award for Outstanding Commitment to the School of Business), his MA in Counseling Psychology from Boston College, and his BS in Psychology from Santa Clara University (where he was awarded the 1991 Nobili Medal).

Dr. Seal teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. His teaching philosophy is to integrate management theory and practice through real world projects and student written, instructor facilitated cases.

Dr. Seal focuses his research agenda on personal interpersonal capacity, creating the social emotional competence development model and measure. His work has been published in Human Performance, Organization Management Journal, Journal of Management Education, and Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture.

He has been inducted into Golden Key (International Honor Society), Phi Kappa Phi (Multidisciplinary Collegiate Honor Society), Phi Beta Delta (Society of International Scholars), and Beta Gamma Sigma (International Honor Society). He is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations and the Academy of Management. He is the past-President of the Inland Empire Society for Human Resource Management (IE SHRM), and has earned both his Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Society for Human Resource Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) certifications.

Before transitioning to academia, he worked in various managerial and executive roles in the non-profit, real estate, and staffing industries for Goodwill Industries, Coldwell Banker, and Aquent, Inc. respectively.

Articles and Book Chapters

Seal, C. R., Rawls, K. M., Gardner, M., & Sanchez, S. (2023). Maybe the problem is not our students but us: Developing faculty personal-interpersonal capacity. In Honing self-awareness of faculty and future business leaders, Emerald Publishing Limited, 147-158.

Seal, C. R., Flaherty, P. T., Rawls, K. M., Sanchez, S., Fan, D., & Guzman, M. G. (2022). Court Appointed Special Advocates: Flexible work arrangements and employee work attitudes. Journal of Case Research and Inquiry, 7, 42-60.

Seal, C. R., Rawls, K. M., Flaherty, P. T., Fan, D., Sanchez, S., & Guzman, M. G. (2021). Flexible work arrangements and employee work attitudes: A case-based inquiry of a small non-profit response to crisis, Journal of Organizational Psychology, 21(4), 93-101.

Huang, X., Zhang, L., Feng, C. & Seal, C. R. (2021). How do changes in human resource programs lead to innovation: An organizational entrainment perspective on the temporal mechanisms in HRM. Personnel Review, 50(1), 319-343.

Seal, C. R., Naumann, S. E., Miguel, K., Royce-Davis, J., Galal, S., Elissa Gardner, M., Dmitriyeva, T., Palmer, S., & Huijuan, Z. (2017). Personal interpersonal capacity: A moderated-mediation model for student success. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 17(4), 78-89.

Seal, C. R., Miguel, K., Alzamil, A., Naumann, S. E., Royce-Davis, J, & Drost, D. (2015). Personal-interpersonal competence assessment: A self-report instrument for student development. Research in Higher Education Journal, 27, 1-10.

Seal, C. R. & Miguel, K. (2013). Facilitating social and emotional competence development through a peer coaching training program for students. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching, 11(1), 28-43.

Seal, C. R., Beauchamp, K., Miguel, K., Scott, A. N., Naumann, S. E., Dong, Q., & Galal, S. (2011). Validation of a self-report instrument to assess social and emotional development. Research in Higher Education Journal, December, 14, 1-20.

Seal, C. R., Beauchamp, K., Miguel, K., & Scott, A. N. (2011). Development of a self-report instrument to assess social and emotional development. Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, 2(2), 82-95.

Seal, C. R., Naumann, S. E., Scott, A., & Royce-Davis, J. (2010). Social emotional development:  A new model of learning in higher education. Research in Higher Education Journal, March, 10, 1-13.

Seal, C. R. & Andrews-Brown, A. (2010). An integrative model of emotional intelligence:  Emotional ability as a moderator of the mediated relationship of emotional quotient and emotional competence. Organization Management Journal, 7(2), 143-152.

Seal, C. R., Sass, M. D., Bailey, J. R., & Liao-Troth, M. (2009). Integrating the emotional intelligence construct: The relationship between emotional ability and emotional competence. Organization Management Journal, 6(4), 204-214.

Seal, C. R., Boyatzis, R. E., & Bailey, J. R. (2006). Fostering emotional and social intelligence in organizations.  Organization Management Journal, 3(3), 190-209.

Offermann, L., Bailey, J. R., Vasilopoulos, N. L., Seal, C., & Sass, M. (2004). EQ versus IQ: The relative contribution of emotional intelligence and cognitive ability to individual and team performance. Human Performance, 17(2), 219-243.