Edwin A. Locke

Specialties: Management ethics, affirmative action and diversity, Muslim terrorism, self-esteem, leadership, management, animal "rights", work motivation and incentives

Dr. Locke, Dean's Professor Emeritus of Leadership and Motivation at the University of Maryland, has published more than 230 articles, chapters, and books on subjects such as leadership, work motivation, goal setting, job satisfaction, incentives, and the philosophy of science. He is internationally known for his work on human motivation. He is the author of such books as The Prime Movers: Traits of the Great Wealth Creators (AMACOM Books, 2000), Goal Setting: A Motivational Technique That Works (with G. Latham) and Post Modernism and Management: Pros, Cons and the Alterantive (JAI: Elsevier, 2003). He is also the editor of Principles of Organizational Behavior (Blackwell Publishers, 2000). Dr. Locke is a consulting editor for professional journals, and his commentaries on such topics as animal "rights," environmentalism, American values, and education have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, and the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Lectures:

• Why Modern Intellectuals Deny the Concept of Evil
• The Case Against Animal Rights
• The Objectivist Concept of Self-Esteem
• Reason and Emotion: Ayn Rand's Solution to a 2,000-Year-Old Problem
• Post-Modernism vs. Religion vs. Objectivism: Which Is the Proper Code of Morality for Living on Earth?
• Christianity vs. Objectivism: Which Is the Proper Philosophy for Living on Earth?