WILLIAM F. MORRISON


 

Organizational Affiliations:
Lecturer, Department of Organization & Management, SJSU

Work Background:
During 20 of Mr. Morrison's 37 years with Westinghouse, he was responsible for negotiating, purchasing, and/or managing the traffic and transportation needs of several Westinghouse divisions in the U.S. and in international locations.
During a separate 8-year period, he was Corporate Manager of functional training and had managers working for him who taught transportation courses. Mr. Morrison was also responsible for negotiating corporate contracts with airlines, car and limousine rentals, hotels etc. All of these required in-depth knowledge and the completion of detailed studies before he took any action.
Mr. Morrison is teaching three courses at SJSU (Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Discovering Business, and Materials Management). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Manufacturing Advisory Board for the MBA in Manufacturing Management at SJSU. Mr. Morrison also teaches a Negotiation course at University of California-Berkeley, and a Purchasing Management course in the MBA Program of Golden Gate University.

Education:
Masters Studies (Economics), American Graduate University
B.S. (Economics), Trinity College (Hartford, CT)

Research Interest:
* Procurement of Transportation Services
* Education/Training of Transportation Human Resources
* Negotiations
* Strategic Planning
* Supply Chain Management

Professional Memberships:
National Association of Purchasing Management

Publications:
1. Winning Your Day to Day Negotiations, (in process-1999).
2. The Human Side of Negotiations, (with H. H. Calero) Jan. 1994
3. The Pre-negotiation Planning Book, September 1985.