James W. Woest, Ph.D.

Dean of College of Business & Management; Professor, College of Business & Management

Phone: (714) 879-3901 x1609
Email: jwoest@hiu.edu
Office: Nutwood Rm 315

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Management, Claremont Graduate University
• M.B.A., California State University at Dominguez Hills
• B.S., Industrial Engineering, California Polytechnic State University

COURSES:

• Leadership Skills
• Business Environment
• Macroeconomics
• Principles of Management
• Current Issues in Management
• Financial Management
• Management of Nonprofit Organizations
• Business Ethics
• Business and Prosperity
• Statistics for Management
• Business Math and Calculus

KEY AWARDS/AFFILIATIONS:

• Beta Gamma Sigma member (Academic honor society in the field of business)
• Christian Business Faculty Association member

ACADEMIC INTERESTS:

• Leadership
• The role of business in promoting national and international prosperity
• Specific preparation for first-time managers
• Positive psychology as applied to management

HOBBIES/INTERESTS:

• Church leadership (elder, deacon, and/or school board member at First Christian Church of Huntington Beach since 1989)
• History of nearly all eras and locales
• Folk music, particularly on the hammered dulcimer
• Woodworking
• Quilt design

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION:

I believe that Pacific Christian College has an important role to play in helping students become competent Christian managers:

• Managers, because all of human society today is composed of organizations, much more so than it was even two hundred years ago. Management is the function that makes organizations work - it is quite possibly the single most important profession.
• Christian, because Christians are needed in all roles and professions throughout society. As members of the priesthood of all believers, our graduates have remarkable evangelistic opportunities in business.
• Competent, because no one will take our graduates seriously as either Christians or managers unless they can effectively perform their jobs. Competence is also essential for personal accomplishment and advancement.

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