Linda L. Neider

Linda L. Neider is professor of management at the University of Miami School of Business, where she chairs the Department of Management and holds a secondary appointment at the Department of Health Management and Policy. She was elected Chair of the Faculty Senate for the University of Miami in 2019.

Neider has conducted research in the areas related to leadership. She has focused on leadership and organizational effectiveness training, organizational culture assessment, executive coaching, performance appraisal systems and organizational needs assessment. She has co-authored or edited eleven books on management topics.

in 2017, Neider was the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from the Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami. In 2020, she was awarded the University of Miami's May A. Brunson Award for "contributions to improve the status of women at the University of Miami, that are outside of their job or title responsibility."

Education Neider graduated summa cum laude from Daemen University in 1975. She then attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she received her M.A. degree (Psychology) in 1978, and both an MBA and Ph.D. degree in the following year.

Career After completing her doctoral studies, Neider joined the University of Miami's Department of Management as an assistant professor in 1979. She was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1983 and became a professor of organizational behavior in 1990. In 2017, she was appointed the department Chair again. She re-examined the Ohio state leadership study, conducted in the 1970s, and discussed the variations in the results, along with discussing the implications for leadership theory and research.

Neider has developed and validated a new measure for authentic leadership, known as the Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI).

Awards and honors 2017 - Outstanding Service Award, University of Miami School of Business 2020 - May A Brunson Award, University of Miami Women's Commission