Meridith N Captein

Meridith is a Senior majoring in Business Management and will be graduating in Spring 09, this is her third semester with Women in Business. Her primary focus is to finish school and begin a successful career. She transferred from Cosumnes River College with an AA in General Education and looks forward to finishing with a BS in Business Administration.

Amanda Wingo

Amanda is a senior majoring in business, with concentrations in Finance and Risk Management. She transferred from Cosumnes River College in 2006 and will be graduating in the fall of 2008. She plans on continuing her education by entering into the MBA program at CSUS. Upon graduating she plans on pursuing a career in finance. In her spare time she enjoys playing tennis and the piano.

Andrea Quyn

Jessica Bagger

Dr. Jessica Bagger received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Arizona. She also received her B.S. in Business Administration (Management and International Business), B.A. in Psychology, and M.S. in Management from the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the impact of work-life issues on organizations and their workers, and the HR policies being implemented to address these work-life issues. She has presented her research at national conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Her research has been published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and International Journal of Selection and Assessment.

Dr. Sharyn Gardner

Dr. Sharyn D. Gardner is an Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business Administration, California State University Sacramento. She attended UC Davis where she received a B.A. in Psychology and she also earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration (Organizational Behavior emphasis) from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining CSUS in 2005, she spent two years teaching at The College of New Jersey.
Dr. Gardner’s research focuses on flexibility and coordination within teams, units, and organizations; distributed cognition and transactive memory systems within teams; collective team personality; and the effects of information technology on organizations. She is a current member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and past member of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and reviews yearly for the annual AOM meetings.
Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Vocational Behavior and IHRIM Journal, as well as The Journal of Trauma and The Journal of Emergency Medicine. She has also presented her work at the annual AOM meetings and annual SIOP meetings. Dr. Gardner’s teaching interests include Organizational Behavior, Management and Organization Theory, Strategic Management, Business Communications, and Human Resources. Prior to her graduate studies and coming to Sacramento State, Dr. Gardner gained extensive experience in management and training during her eight years in industry. During that time, she opened five restaurants and was responsible for all operations; managed various operational projects related to corporate strategy; and was the regional training manager in the Southern California region.
Her honors and awards include the Allan N. Nash Outstanding Doctoral Student Award (UMD Smith School of Business) and various small research grants.