Moshe Banai, Ph.D.
 Department of Management

Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College
The City University of New York
17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010
(646) 312-3631
moshe_banai@baruch.cuny.edu

Moshe Banai is a Professor of Management at Baruch College, the City University of New York. He has received his Ph.D. degree in management from the London Business School in England, M.Sc. degree from Tel Aviv University, and B.A. from Ben-Gurion University. He has taught at Tel-Aviv University in Israel, the London Business School in England, InterAmericana University in Puerto Rico, Kazan State University in Russia, Shanghai University of Science and Technology in China, and Sydney Business School in Australia.

Professor Banai is an expert in the field of international management, covering topics such as Management of Multinational Corporations, International Human Resource Management, Organization's Strategy and Design, Management Development, and Management in Transitional Economies. He has consulted for major international and domestic organizations in numerous industries such as the aircraft, banking, chemicals, consumer products, education, non-for-profit, transportation, and utilities. In addition, he has served as a Human Resource Director for a multinational bank in London.

Professor Banai's current studies focus on two major topics: The first is the impact of the transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy on people's organizational behavior in countries such as China, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, Russia, and Kibbutzim in Israel. The second study investigates career issues of expatriate managers.

Moshe Banai shares his life with Rachel Banai.

Recent Publications:

  • "Business Ethics in Russia: Natasha's Choice" Insights, (Publication of the Academy of International Business), 3 (4): 9-11, 2003.

  • "Leadership and Alienation in State Owned Enterprises and International Joint Ventures in China" (with Jason Hu), in Ilan Alon, (Ed.), Chinese Economic Transition and International Marketing Strategy, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 237-263, 2003.

  • "A Test of Control - Alienation Theory among Cuban Workers" (with William Reisel), Management Research, 1 (3): 243-252, 2003.

  • "Alienation in State owned and Private Companies in Russia" (with Jacob Weisberg), Scandinavian Journal of Management, 19 (3), 359-383, 2003.

  • "Comparison of a Multidimensional and Global Measure of Job Insecurity: Predicting Job Attitudes and Work Behavior" (with William Reisel), Psychological Reports, 90: 913-922, 2002.

  • "Job insecurity revisited: Reformulating with affect" (with William Reisel), The Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Summer/ Fall, 4,1, 87-96, 2002.

  • Reisel, William and Banai, Moshe. 2002. "Comparison of a Multidimensional and Global Measure of Job Insecurity: Predicting Job Attitudes and Work Behavior," Psychological Reports, 90, 913-922.

  • Reisel, William and Banai, Moshe. 2002. "Job Insecurity Revisited: Reformulating with Affect," The Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Summer/Fall, 4, 1, 87-96.

  • Banai, Moshe and Weisberg, Jacob. 2002. "Alienation in State owned and Private Companies in Russia," Scandinavian Journal of Management, 19, 3, 38pp.

  • Banai, Moshe. 2002. "A Test of Etzioni's Control - Compliance Model in Kibbutzim in Israel," International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2, 2, 155-169.

  • Banai, Moshe, Nirnberg, John and Menachem, Moshe. 2000. "Leadership in Self- Managing Organizations: Orpheus and a Date Plantation," Journal of Leadership Studies, 7, 3, 3-17.

  • Alon, Ilan and Banai, Moshe. 2000. "Franchising Opportunities and Threats in Russia," Journal of International Marketing, 8, 3, 104-119.

  • Banai, Moshe and Sama, Linda. 2000. "Ethical Dilemmas in International Assignments: A Conceptual Framework," Journal of Business Ethics, 25, 3, 221-235.

  • Banai, Moshe and Reisel, William. 1999. "Would you Trust your Foreign Manager? An Empirical Investigation," Journal of International Human Resource Management, 10, 3, 477-487.

  • Banai, Moshe, Chanin, Michael, and Teng, Bing-Sheng. 1999. "Russian Managers' Perceptions of Prospective Russian-US Joint Ventures," International Business Review, 8, 17-37.