Alison Dachner
Associate Professor
Background
Dr. Alison M. Dachner has over a decade of experience conducting research, teaching, and consulting on management and leadership topics. She is an Associate Professor of Management at the Boler College of Business at John Carroll University. Before beginning her academic career, she worked as the Director of Education for an international call center, received her M.B.A. from Cleveland State University, and earned her Ph.D. in Labor and Human Resources from The Ohio State University.
Dachner’s research examines how shifts in the modern work environment and differences among diverse populations impact employee careers, as well as the effectiveness of organizational strategies for engaging, developing, transitioning, and retaining employees and students. Her work appears in leading academic journals, including, Academy of Management Review, Human Resources Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Education, and Academy of Management Annals.
She has consulted on special projects across various industries, including NASA, and is passionate about translating academic discoveries into practical, evidence-based recommendations for organizations. To help bridge the research–practice gap, she has written for broader audiences through publications in Harvard Business Review, Organizational Dynamics, and Business Horizons.
Professor Dachner has designed courses, programs, and professional development workshops for undergraduate and graduate students, fellow academics, and other working professionals. Her teaching portfolio includes: introduction to management, leadership skills, contemporary issues in management and leadership, organizational behavior, international management, strategic management, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, instructional design & training, employee development, inclusive hiring, onboarding, exit management & offboarding. She integrates experiential and project-based learning throughout her classes and actively advances pedagogy through her role as Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Education.
She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management where she serves as Treasurer for the Careers Division, as well as the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, and the Society for Human Resource Management, where she obtained a professional certification (SHRM-CP).
Areas of Expertise
- Managerial and leadership skills
- organizational behavior
- instructional design & training
- employee career development
- exit management
- corporate alumni programs- alumni-organization relationships.
Research Interests
Dr. Dachner’s research examines how shifts in the modern work environment and differences among diverse populations impact employee careers, as well as the effectiveness of organizational strategies for engaging, developing, transitioning, and retaining employees and students.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Labor and Human Resources
Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Department of Management and Human Resources
Doctorate Minor: Quantitative Psychology
Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Monte Ahuja College of Business, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Department of Management
Bachelors of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A), Human Resource Management
Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Department of Management and Human Resources
Courses Taught
- Managing employees for a competitive advantage (MOL3301)
- Management and organizational leadership (MOL3325)
- Managing Performance, Pay and Perks (MOL3376)
- Managing Career and Talent Development (MOL4473)
- Special issues in people management and organizational leadership (MOL4495)
- Leadership and Managerial Skills (MOL5550)
Publications
*Makarius, E.E., Dachner, A.M. & Brymer, R.A. (2025). You say goodbye, I say hello: A theory of post-separation value through alumni and extended exchange relationships. Academy of Management Review, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0242
Makarius, E.E., Dachner, A.M., Paluch, R., Pedde, J. (2024). Feel the churn: Exercising talent management practices for employee mobility. Business Horizons. 67, 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2023.07.003
Dachner, A.M., & Beatty, J. (2023). A selected review of exemplary diversity articles published in the Journal of Management Education, 47(5), 458-476. https://doi.org/10.1177/10525629231178798
Dachner, A.M., & Makarius, E.E. (2022). Follow the TRAILS: A path to systematically designing corporate alumni programs, Organizational Dynamics, 51(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2022.100897
Dachner, A.M., & Makarius, E.E. (Mar/Apr 2021). Turn Departing Employees into Loyal Alumni: A holistic approach to offboarding. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/03/turn-departing-employees-into-loyal-alumni
Dachner, A.M., Ellingson, J.E., Noe, R.A., & Saxton, B.M. (2019). The Future of Employee Development. Human Resource Management Review, 31(2), 100732.
Dachner, A.M., Miguel, R.F., & Patena, R. (2017). Risky business: Increasing student intellectual risk-taking in management education. Journal of Management Education, 41(3), 415-443.
Dachner, A. M., Ellingson, J.E., & Tews, M.J. (2017). Clarifying the association between personality and interpersonal citizenship behavior. SAM: Advanced Management Journal, 82, 36-47.
Dachner, A.M., & Polin, B.A. (2016). A systematic approach to educating the emerging adult learner in undergraduate management courses. Journal of Management Education, 40(2), 121-151.
Dachner, A.M., & Miguel, R.F. (2015). Job crafting: An unexplored benefit of friendships in work teams. SAM: Advanced Management Journal, 80(2), 13-21.
Dachner, A.M. & Saxton, B.M. (2015). If you don’t care, why should I?: The influence of instructor commitment on learning outcomes. Journal of Management Education, 39(5), 549-571.
Dachner, A.M., Saxton, B.M., & Noe, R.A. (2013). To infinity and beyond: Using a narrative approach to identify training needs for unknown and dynamic situations. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 24(2), 239-267.
Noe, R.A., Tews, M.J. & Dachner, A.M. (2010). Learner engagement: A new perspective for enhancing our understanding of learner motivation and workplace learning. Academy of Management Annals, 4, 279-315.
\ Ziemke, J., Jayamaha, B., and Jahn, M. (2021, March 25). Crisis mapping and crowdsourcing in complex emergencies. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. \
\\\ “Turn and Burn: Loss Dynamics and Civilian Targeting in the Angolan War,” Journal of Economics and Politics. Volume 20(1). Akron, OH: December 2012. Article received the Journal of Economics and Politics’ Young Scholar Award for publications in 2012.\
\\\ “From Cultures of Participation to the Rise of Crisis Mapping in a Networked World,” with Sophia Liu. In A. Delwiche and J. Henderson, eds. The Participatory Cultures Handbook. Routledge: London. July 2012. \
\\\ “Crisis Mapping: The Construction of a New Interdisciplinary Field?” Journal of Map and Geography Libraries: Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections and Archives 8(2): 101-117: 9 May 2012. \
\\\ “Sharing sensitive data on forced migrants,” with Prisca Benelli and Alessandro Guarino. Forced Migration Review: Technology and Communication. Issue 38: Oct. 2011. \
\\\ Jayamaha, Buddhika, Jen Ziemke, and Molly Jahn. “Criminalized Security and State Capture: Life on the Edge in the Sahel.” Future of Great Power Competition and Conflict. ViTTa. Joint Chiefs of Staff-Department of Defense, Strategic Multilayer Assessment. 2019.\
\\\ Jayamaha, Buddhika, Jen Ziemke, and Molly Jahn. “Defending the Realm in an Age of Interstitial Warfare.” Future of Great Power Competition and Conflict. ViTTa. Joint Staff-Department of Defense, Strategic Multilayer Assessment. 2019.\
\\\ Executive Summary. SMA CENTCOM Reach-back Reports. Part V: Sources of Extremism. January 2017. Pentagon.\
\\\ Executive Summary. Smart Phones for Propaganda. SMA CENTCOM Reach-back Reports. January 2017.\
\\\ Adagio…crescendo… catastrophe….adagio. SMA CENTCOM Reach-back Reports. Part V: Sources of Extremism. January 2017.\
\\\ “Conflict Mapping 3.0,” The Magazine of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. 2014.\
\\\ “Crisis Mapping: An approach for the empirical analysis of conflict patterns,” Harvard Humanitarian initiative. Working Paper Series.\
\\\ “What Can Live Crisis Maps tell us about patterns and processes in violent conflicts and war?” In: The Changing Face of Warfare in the 21st Century. International Humanitarian Law Magazine. Australian Red Cross. April 2012.\
\\\ “Geospatial and Information Communication Technologies Applied to the Health-Security Interface: The Crisis Mappers Revolution: Volunteered Geographic Data and the Applicability of Web 2.0 Technologies to Mass Gatherings,” World Health Organization: Interdisciplinary group on Mass Gatherings. VIAG #18, January 2012. \
\\\ “The International Network of Crisis Mappers,” in Robert Backhaus, Lorant Czaran, Natalie Epler, Michael Leitgab, David Stevens, Joerg Szarzynski (Eds.): The 4C-Challenge: Communication - Coordination - Cooperation - Capacity Development. Selected contributions to the Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology, 2011.\
\\\ “Crowd-generated Crisis Maps Revolutionize Humanitarian Response.” Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) Guest Blog Post. October 10, 2011. \
\\\ “Disaster Relief 2.0 Blog Series: Collaborating for Effective Response”. UN Dispatch: March 28, 2011. \
\\\ Review of Stathis N. Kalyvas, 2006. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Peace Research, 44(2): March 2007.\
\\\ Review of Robert Lyons and Scott Straus. Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide. Zone Books, New York: 2006. Journal of Peace Research, 43(6): November 2006. \
\\\ Peace Brief: “Lessons from Haiti and Beyond: Report from the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping” United States Institute of Peace. With Jessica Heinzelman, D. Roz Sewell and Patrick Meier. March 7, 2011. \
\\\ Prepared real-time reports and analysis for the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Disaster Simulation Table Top Exercise: Earthquake in Colombia as part of the Crisis Mappers Standby Taskforce Analytic Team. November 15-16, 2010.\
\\\ Special Report: International Conference on Crisis Mapping,” United States Institute of Peace. 2010.\
\\\ With Atkeson, Lonna et. al. “Outcomes and Lessons Learned from Polling Voters during election 2004,” Election Science Institute: 2005. \
\\\ “The Democratic Republic of the Congo” in Countries and their Cultures, Volume 4, Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember: 2001\
