Rhonda Dever Associate Teaching Professor | Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics

Interests

Reading, traveling, hiking, cooking, gardening, wine.

Research Interests

Community economic development, Policy economics, Environmental economics, Indigenous economic issues, Non-profits, Personal finance

Education

PhD - Business Administration (Management), Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS
Dissertation Title: "A labyrinth of snake pits and traps at every corner" : understanding experiences of Canadian women in building and construction trades through a feminist existential lens.
MBA - Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
BBA - Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC

Publications

Dever, R.L. (forthcoming, 2026). From university dropout to department chair: How the hell did that happen? In N.M. Deal & K.S. Williams (Eds.), Starting Academia Differently. London: Routledge.
Jones, G.R., George, J., Haddad, J.W., Dever, R.L., & Sallenback, W. (2025). Essentials of Contemporary Management: Eigth Canadian Edition. Toronto: McGraw Hill.
Dever, R. L., (2025). Women in Trades. In J. Helms Mills, A.J. Mills, K.S. Williams & R. Bendle. (Eds). Encyclopedia of Gender and Management. Cheltenham: Elgar.

Published Book Chapters:

Dever, R. L. (2016), Triple Role Conflict: The Teacher, the Student, the Parent, In A. Prasad (Ed.), Contesting institutional hegemony in today's business schools: Doctoral students speak out. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Dever, R. L. & Mills, A.J., (2015), Are We Still Telling Female Students They Can't Lead?, In P. Flynn, K. Haynes, and M. Kilgour (Eds.), Integrating Gender Equality into Business and Management Education.

Papers Presented and Conference Proceedings:

Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada, 2023 Symposium: Dever, R, Coller, K., and Johnston, S., AI in Management Education: Resist, Submit, or Embrace?
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Montreal, Canada, 2017. Blind Peer Reviewed, paper presented: Dever, R.L., Exploring Burnout in Doctoral Students.
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Halifax, Canada, 2015. Symposium: Dever, R, Coller, K., and MacNeil, R., Is Management Research a Stacked Deck? Addressing Publication Bias, Hypothesis Picking and Irreproducible Results.
Gender, Work, and Organization, 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele University, UK, 2014.Blind Peer Reviewed, paper presented: Dever, R. L. and Mills, A.J., Revisiting her Existentialism: Simone de Beauvoir's Relevance to Leadership Theory.
International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, France, 2014. Blind Peer Reviewed, paper presented: Dever, R. L. Organizational Level, Sex, Stress, Coping Styles and Links to Health in a Gender-Neutral Organizational Context.
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Muskoka, Canada, 2014. Blind Peer Reviewed, paper presented: Dever, R.L and Mills, A.J., Are We Still Telling Female Students They Can't Lead? A Content Analysis of Leadership Writings and Representations in Organizational Behaviour Texts.
International Critical Management Studies Conference (7), 2011 - Faculty of Economics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Blind Peer Reviewed, Paper presented: Dever, R. L, Wallin, M.R., and Fergus, A., We can Remember it for you Wholesale: Nostalgic Hyperreality and the Extended Self in Marketing Strategy.

Employment History

2018 - Ongoing: Thompson Rivers University, Associate Teaching Professor
2011 - 2018: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Instructor

Courses Taught

Thompson Rivers University:

MNGT 4720 - Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
MNGT 3730 - Leadership
MNGT 3710 - Business Ethics and Society
ORGB 4870 - Organizational Development and Change
ORGB 3810 - Organization Theory and Design
ORGB 2810 - Organizational Behaviour

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology:

ORGB 3310 - Organizational Psychology
LEAD 3300 - Leadership
MGMT 4425 - Organization Theory and Design
ORGB 1135 - Organizational Behaviour
MARK 3315 - Consumer Behaviour
MARK 1130 - Introduction to Marketing