Dr. Abidemi Oyinlade

Biography

Professor A. Olu Oyinlade, PhD., is primarily a Business Organizational Sociologist who specializes in leadership development and performance improvement in complex corporate organizations. His intellectual and consulting fields of expertise are in organizational leadership development, leadership effectiveness assessment, organizational structural realignment for employee performance improvement, and organizational diversity inclusion management. He is the creator and author of a standards-based method of assessing leadership effectiveness known as the “Essential Behavioral Leadership Qualities” [EBLQ] method. This method has been widely used by many researchers and practitioners in the field of leadership assessment. In 2009, the Marquis Who’s Who Publication Board entered Professor Oyinlade’s biographical record into the “Who’s Who in America” publication. For details of his skills, please see his vita in the link below. His consulting work can be seen at https://crownbusinessconsulting.com/

Teaching Interests

Professor Oyinlade is a member of both the undergraduate and graduate faculties. He teaches a variety of courses including Applied Organizational Sociology, Applied Formal Organizations, Organizational Diversity and Inclusion, Complex Organizations, and Introduction to Sociology. Other courses he has taught in his career include Human Relations in Organizations, Social Aspects of Industry, Social Problems, Race-Ethnic Relations, Quantitative Research Methods, Population Studies, Social Stratification, Community Studies, Community in Urban Environments, Deviant Behavior and Sociology of the Family. He has created new courses into curricula in four different universities as well as led the development of a new degree program in organizational sociology here at UNO. He supervises both graduate and undergraduate students’ research projects as well as actively participates in master’s and doctoral students’ dissertation research committees. In addition, he is a co-author of an introduction to sociology textbook; Basic Sociology: A Comprehensive Introduction, published by BVT Publishing. For details of his teaching record, please see his vita in the link below.

Research Interests

Professor Oyinlade is an active researcher whose recent studies have focused on various areas of organizational development, such as leadership assessment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, organizational estrangement, organizational power, affirmative action policies in organizations, and the impact of migration on employment and economic characteristics. His research has been published in many regional, national, and international peer-reviewed scientific journals, and he has presented his research at the various levels in which he has published his research. He is currently writing two books on organizational leadership. The first book, "Organizational Leadership: Are You a Ruler, Manager, or Leader?" distinguishes leadership from ruling and management. The book addresses the problem of conflation of these terms, especially the terms leader and manager, and it explains the qualities of a leader vis-a-vis those of a manager. The second book, "Leadership Development: Leadership By Followership Development" discusses specific human relations behaviors that organizational managers can practice to transform their subordinates into followers. Both books are expected to appeal to organizational managers, HR executives, organizational trainers, management consultants as well as university professors and students. Both books are on track for release through Amazon and Barnes & Nobles between April and September 2025. For details of his research accomplishments, please see his vita in the link below.

Service Summary

Professor Oyinlade has held a few university and professional administrative positions including serving as the director of the university honor program for Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD, between 1992 and 1993. He has served as Vice President, President, and Past President of the Great Plains Sociological Association. He has served as the Chapter Representative for Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD)-the Sociology Honor Society at two universities, and he has been elected, twice, to serve on the national council for AKD where he served as committee chair for two different committees. He had also been elected to serve two terms representing two different states (South Dakota and Nebraska) on the board of the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) where he also served as the chair of the Minority Scholars Committee. In addition, he has served on the Department’s executive, graduate, undergraduate, and assessment committees, as well as served as the Department’s undergraduate academic adviser for eight years. Also, he has served as a resource person for the Ogoni Community in Lincoln and Omaha as called upon to serve, and he gives invited public lectures at community events. His newer services include serving as a Senator on the UNO Senate Faculty and serving on the Senate's Academic Affairs Committee. In addition, he is on the governing board of the Univeristy's North Omaha Initiative. For details of his service record, please see his vita in the link below.

Awards and Honors

Listed Amond the most cited research authors on THE GREAT PLAINS SOCIOLGY journal -2021-, Scholarship/Research - 2021

Top Ten Credit Hours Producers at the Collge of Arts and Sciences, Teaching - 2018

Listed Amond the most cited research authors on SAGE OPEN journal-2014, Scholarship/Research - 2014

Distinguished Service Award to the Ogoni Community in Nebraska, Service, Community - 2013

Listed Among the most cited research authors on PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT QUARTERLY journal-2009 till present - 2009

Inducted into Marqui's Who's Who in America, 63rd Edition - 2009

Special recognition as a professor who has made a difference in the life of students. 2008, Teaching - 2008

Special recognition as a professor who has made a difference in the life of students. 2007, Teaching - 2007

Nominated for the Margaret J. Prouty Faculty Teaching Award, 1996., Teaching - 1996

Nominated for the Burlington Northern Award for excellence in teaching, 1991., Teaching - 1991

Education

Ph D, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, Sociology, (Organizations, Industrial Management, Demography & Theory), 1987

MS, Central Missouri State University (University of Central Missouri), Warrensburg, MO, Industrial Management, (Organizational Management and Production Management), 1984

BS, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Agricultural Economics, (Credit and Financial Management), 1982