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Margaret Shaffer
Margaret ShafferLubar Hall S369
Phone: (414) 229-4544
E-mail: shafferm@uwm.edu

Dr. Shaffer’s research activities focus on understanding cross-cultural experiences, especially in the areas of expatriate adjustment and performance and life balance. She teaches undergraduate and graduate course in International Business, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
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Margaret Shaffer
Richard C. Notebaert Distinguished Chair of International Business and Global Studies

Education
Ph.D., Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, University of Texas at Arlington
M.S., Personal and Human Resource Management, University of Texas at Arlington
B.A., Psychology and Sociology, Indiana University

Areas of Expertise
Dr. Shaffer’s research activities focus on understanding cross-cultural experiences, especially in the areas of expatriate adjustment and performance and life balance. She teaches undergraduate and graduate course in International Business, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Professional Activities

Dr. Shaffer has published numerous academic articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies. She has also been an active participant in the Academy of Management Meetings and the Academy of International Business conferences. One of her papers on expatriate adjustment (co-authored with David Harrison) received the first “Best International Paper” award from the Academy of Management. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Review.

Before joining the faculty at UWM, Dr. Shaffer lived and worked in Hong Kong for 11 years. She was a professor of management at Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she was the course director of their Doctor of Business Administration program. She has successfully supervised 20 Ph.D. thesis students.

Dr. Shaffer has consulted with numerous organizations, including American Airlines, Caltex Petroleum, Federal Express, General Motors, and Levi Strauss concerning their expatriation policies and practices. Before becoming an academic, Dr. Shaffer worked in the United States as a manager in the telecommunications, hospitality, and retail industries and in Hong Kong as a partner in a training and consultancy firm.