Dr. Frank Mullins Associate Professor, College of Business Contact 301 Sparkman DriveBusiness Administration BuildingRoom 375Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.6656frank.mullins@uah.edu Biography Dr. Frank I. Mullins is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business, University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for the Study for Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University, and a former Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow for the University of North Carolina System. Prior to returning to UAH, Dr. Mullins was the inaugural Fred ’78 and Sue Newton Endowed Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Rhode Island, and had previously served on the business faculty at North Carolina A&T State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration and MBA from Syracuse University and bachelor’s degree in Management from Oakwood University. During his PhD studies, he was an Exchange Scholar at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Before his academic career, Dr. Mullins gained valuable real-world experience in HRM at the IBM Corporation, working across various areas including compensation, staffing, employee relations, corporate learning, and diversity. Dr. Mullins’ research agenda examines how corporate governance, namely boards of directors, family governance, and large shareholders, influence HRM practices in organizations. His research is published in well-respected, scholarly journals including Human Resource Management and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. He is currently serving on the Diversity and Inclusion committee for the Labor and Employment Relations Association, and has served as a Guest Editor for a special issue on employee stock ownership at Human Resource Management, a leading HRM journal, and was a past Chair of the Caucus Committee for the Academy of Management. Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/drfrankmullins Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Business Administration, Syracuse University, 2011 M.B.A., Human Resources, Syracuse University, 2001 B.S., Business Management, Oakwood University, 1997 SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) – Society for Human Resource Management (2015- Present) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate – University of South Florida (2021) Honors & Awards Honor Roll, Students’ Choice Award for Teaching in Graduate Courses, UAH College of Business (2023) Mark McDaniel, Henri McDaniel, & Robert (Bud) Cramer Faculty Fellow, UAH College of Business (2022) Outstanding Faculty Member Award, UAH College of Business (2020) Honor Roll, Outstanding Teaching in Graduate Courses, UAH College of Business (2020) Honor Roll, Outstanding Teaching in Undergraduate Courses, UAH College of Business (2020) Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, UAH Minority Graduate Student Association (2020) C. David Billings Fellow, UAH College of Business (2019-20) Corey Rosen Fellow, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership & Profit Sharing (2019-20) Best Research Paper Award, UAH College of Business (2019) Honor Roll, Outstanding Online Teacher of the Year, UAH College of Business (2019) Affiliations Academy of Management Management Faculty of Color Association Society for Human Resource Management Southern Management Association Expertise Employee Pay-for-Performance Strategic Human Resource Management Family Firms Corporate Governance Recent Publications Mullins, F., & Memili, E. (2024). Cash profit sharing and labour productivity in family firms: Exploring the effects of R&D and capital intensities. International Review of Applied Economics. Mullins, F. (2023). Beyond the short-term: The effects of broad-based employee ownership on labor productivity in family and nonfamily firms. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 29(1): 195-217. Hernández-Linares, R., López-Fernández, M., Memili, E., Mullins, F., & Patel, P. (2023). High performance work practices, socioemotional wealth preservation, and family firm labor productivity. BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 26(3): 237-255. Mullins, F., Patel, P., Memili, E., & Ramadani, V. (2023). High-performance work practices and labour productivity: The contingent effect of family governance. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 50(4): 433-458. Mullins, F., Weltmann, D., Kruse, D., & Blasi, J. (2019). Broad-based employee stock ownership: What makes it effective in the management of human resources? Human Resource Management, 58(6):567-570 Mullins, F. (2018) HR on board! The implications of human resource expertise on boards of directors for diversity management. Human Resource Management, 57(5): 1127-1144. Mullins, F. (2018) A piece of the pie? The effects of familial control enhancements on the use of broad-based employee ownership programs in family firms. Human Resource Management, 57(5): 979-992. Mullins, F., & Holmes, J. (2018) Balancing board? The effects of board independence and capital on firms offering work-family benefits. Human Resource Management, 57(2): 457-469. Mullins, F., Brandes, P., & Dharwadkar, R. (2016). To thine shareholders be true? Linking large corporate ownership to the firm’s use of commitment human resource practices. Human Resource Management, 55(4): 567-589. Mullins, F. (2015) Board independence and changes in defined-benefit plan funding. Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 21:119-141.