Tammy Bunn Hiller

Office: Taylor Hall 317

Phone: 570.577.1747

Email: hiller@bucknell.edu

Courses taught: Management 101, Organizing for Justice and Social Change, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management. 

"‘Self-sufficiency’ implies that we can singly provide for our needs, that we need no one… Yet the truth is that we are all deeply dependent on each other, and on the earth, in a complex system of mutual beneficence.  To share and to cooperate means to take great risks, with high returns for our bravery.  Better, then, that we strive for co-sufficiency than self-sufficiency." – Janisse Ray

I have been a Bucknell professor since 1994. I earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and a BSBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business (completed first year MBA school with honors and conducted doctoral research in marketing).  Between earning my BSBA and my Ph.D., I worked for six years in the food industry -- in a variety of sales, sales management, and marketing positions for General Foods Corporation and The Pillsbury Company.  In addition, I have consulted for several organizations, including Volvo Trucks Sweden, Volvo Trucks Belgium, Household Bank, Stroheman Bakeries, and Agnes Scott College.  I am married to my high-school sweetheart, Bud Hiller, who works for Bucknell as a Technology Support Specialist.  We have two great children, Joe, and Sara, and all enjoy traveling, adventure sports, and serving our local and world communities.

I love teaching at Bucknell because I am allowed the freedom to teach in experiential, collaborative ways, and to engage my students in the community as part of their education.  I care about each of my students as the individual, multi-faceted person she or he is.  My goals as a teacher are to foster significant, life-long learning and the personal and moral development of all of my students.  I want my students to leave my classes understanding management theory, understanding how to effectively apply that theory in a range of real situations, and having improved their analytical, teamwork, and communication skills.  Even more important, however, I hope they leave with a better understanding of how they can take charge of their learning process and continually learn throughout their lives.  I also hope that they leave with a deeper understanding of themselves – in terms of their capabilities, limitations, and aspirations.  Finally, I want them to leave my classes with a clear understanding of the personal responsibility they bear for organizational actions and decisions in which they are involved, and for positively contributing to society.  Bucknell supports my teaching in this way, for which I am deeply grateful.

My teaching and scholarship are closely connected.  Much of my scholarship is driven by questions and issues that I observe my students struggling to understand or by my own desire to make sense of how to teach most effectively.  Much of my research is pedagogical focusing on collaborative, experiential, and service-learning pedagogies.  I also co-wrote the textbook for Management 101, and work to update it every year.  Most recently, I have become absorbed in better understanding how people can effectively organize in pursuit of justice and social change.