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Dr. Ruediger Mueller, Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP)
Associate Faculty

Contact info:

Email: rudi.mueller@tcmius.com

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Biography

Academic Background:

• Doctorate: Justus Liebig University, Germany with coursework at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. (Thesis: Strategic Planning and Control Systems)
• Master of Business Administration: Kansas State University
• Diplom Oekonom (Master's in Business and Economics): Justus Liebig University, Germany

Teaching Background:

• Associate Faculty at Post University (MBA program)
• Faculty Member: University of Wisconsin
• Faculty Member: Gettysburg College

Professional Background:

Dr. Ruediger Mueller brings more than 22 years of corporate and consulting experience to his position as President and Senior Partner of TCMI, Inc. (www.tcmius.com), a consulting group specializing in operational, growth, and turnaround management as well as human resource development. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP), an active member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), and serves on the Florida Board of the TMA where he chairs the Education Committee. Dr. Mueller is also a recognized leadership expert who has worked with major US and international organizations including FEMA, GE Capital, and the Mayo Clinic (www.leadingandfollowing.com).

Formerly, Dr. Mueller has held various positions, including Division CEO, in multinational corporations serving the construction, furniture, and cabinet making industries. He has also consulted and worked extensively in other industries including specialty chemicals; hardware manufacturing and distribution; automotive tier one supply; machinery; construction materials and architectural hardware; and textiles.

Having worked in multinational corporations with exposure to a variety of industries, Dr. Mueller has extensive international experience in Europe as well as the Far East. He has experience in strategic planning, general management, manufacturing, marketing/sales, and operations. Turnaround and IT experiences add to Dr. Mueller's range of capabilities.

Teaching Philosophy:

Through his teaching, Dr. Mueller strives to create the next generation of business leadership through real life educational experiences based on sound theoretical foundations.

Research/Academic Interests:

• Entrepreneurship
• Turnaround management
• Leadership
• Economics

Professional Memberships:

• Academy of Management
• Turnaround Management Association (TMA)

Publications:

• Schein, Virginia E.; Ruediger Mueller; Terri Lituchy and Jiang Liu: Think Manager - Think Male: A Global Phenomenon? Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 17, February 1996, 33-41.
• Mueller, Ruediger: The Impact of Newer Windows Database Managers on Business: A Sales Management Example. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington DC, November 1993, published in proceedings.
• Mueller, Ruediger: Fast and Efficient Processing of Survey Data: A PC Based Solution. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington DC, November 1993, published in proceedings.
• Mueller Ruediger: A 4GL Based Executive Search System. Journal of End User Computing, Vol. 5, No. 2, 5-16 (revised and expanded version of an earlier presentation).
• Mueller Ruediger: A 4GL Based Executive Search System.Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, November 1992, published in proceedings.
• Schein, Virginia E.; Ruediger Mueller: Sex Role Stereotyping and Requisite Management Characteristics: A Cross Cultural Look. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 13, September 1992, 439-447 (revised and expanded version of an earlier presentation).
• Lituchi, Terri R.; Ruediger Mueller and Virginia E. Schein: The Relationship Between Sex Role Stereotypes and Requisite Management Characteristics in Japan. Presentation at the International Conference of the Western Academy of Management, Leuven, Belgium, July 1992, published in proceedings.
• Mueller Ruediger; Marshall Sashkin and William Rosenbach: An Exploration of Transformational Leadership and Its Effects. Presentation at the Thirteenth Psychology in the Department of Defense Symposium, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, April 1992, published in proceedings.
• Mueller Ruediger: Global Corporate Modeling for Strategic Decision Support: A Ratio-Based Approach. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Miami Beach, November 1991, published in proceedings.
• Rosenbach, William; Ruediger Mueller: Transformational and Transactional Leadership of Australian and U.S. Fire Service Executives. Presentation at the Eastern Academy of Management Fourth Biennial International Conference - Managing in a Global Economy, Nice, France, June 1991, published in proceedings.
• Schein, Virginia E.; Ruediger Mueller: Sex Role Stereotyping of the Managerial Position: A Cross Cultural Look. Presentation at the 22nd International Congress of Applied Psychology, Kyoto, Japan, July 1990, published in proceedings.
• Rosenbach, William; Ruediger Mueller: Transactional and Transformational Leadership of Business, Church and Fire Service Executives. In B. J. Fallon, H. P. Pfister, and J. Brebner (Editors): Advances in Industrial Organizational Psychology, Elsevier Science Publishing B.V., 1989 (revised and expanded version of an earlier presentation).
• Peterson, Mark F.; Ruediger Mueller: University and In-House Management Education of Multinational Business and Bank Employees. Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol. I, No. 1, 1989 (revised and expanded version of an earlier presentation).
• Schein, Virginia E.; Ruediger Mueller and Carolyn Jacobsen: The Relationship Between Sex Role Stereotypes & Requisite Management Characteristics Among College Students. Sex Roles, No. 1, 1989.
• Rosenbach, William; Ruediger Mueller: Transactional and Transformational Leadership of Business, Church and Fire Service Executives. Presentation at the XXIVth International Congress of Psychology, Sydney, Australia, September 1988.
• Mueller Ruediger; William Rosenbach: Principal Components Analysis for Multicollinearity and Homogeneity of Transactional and Transformational Leadership Dimensions. Presentation at the Eleventh Psychology in the Department of Defense Symposium, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, April 1988, published in proceedings.
• Mueller, Ruediger; Carl Leinbach: GLOBSYS: A Ratio-Based Strategic Planning & Simulation System. Presentation at the Eighth International Conference on Decision Support Systems, Boston, June 1988, published in proceedings.
• Mueller, Ruediger: International Strategic Planning: A Ratio-Based Simulation Approach. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Southern Management Association, Atlanta, November 1986, published in proceedings.
• Shields, Charles; Joseph P. Yaney; Ruediger Mueller and Kae Hentges: Management Theory Applied to A Plant Closing. Performance and Instruction, 1987.
• Peterson, Mark F.; Ruediger Mueller: University and In-House Management Education of Multinational Business and Bank Employees. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Southern Management Association, Orlando, November 1985, published in proceedings.
• Mueller, Ruediger: Forecasting Shifts in the World Trade of Chemicals. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business, Montreal, 1981. Research Project financed by an Exxon Chemical Corporation Research Grant.