Biography

Christopher M. Castille is an Assistant Professor of Management at Nicholls State University. He teaches courses on Human Resource Management (HRM), including HR Analytics, Managing Human Capital, Human Relations, and Performance and Compensation Management. His research interests include the relationship between ethical workplace behavior and individual differences factors (e.g., personality traits). He also has a stream of research devoted to organizational research methods and open science practice.

He currently co-directs the People Analytics Lab out of Nicholls State University, which focuses on exposing students to problems in the people analytics domain and providing organizations with evidence-based solutions to people analytics problems.

Below is my teaching philosophy. I share it with all my students at the beginning of every course that I teach. It was inspired by Adam Grant’s teaching philosophy (he is a well-known organizational psychologist).:

I take it as my personal responsibility to expose you to evidence-based management so that you might make wiser decisions as an employee, manager, and business leader. In our classes, we’ll discuss the most reliable and credible science that I’m aware of on various topics, we’ll weigh this evidence against our own experiences, and consider how best to act given this information. By the end of our time together, I hope that you will have cultivated an attitude of wisdom, which means acting with the best information on hand while doubting what we believe to be true.

For a quick overview of evidence-based managment, please see this link.

The courses that I teach are below:

• MNGT370: Human Relations and Interpersonal Skills
• MNGT475: Performance and Compensation Management
• MNGT486: Special Topic: HR Analytics
• MNGT502: Managing Human Capital