Beverly J. Demarr

Beverly J. DeMarr, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at Ferris State University where she regularly teaches classes in Human Resources, Compensation, and Negotiations. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Managment and Master of Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University, MBA from Grand Valley State University, and BSBA from Aquinas College. Dr. DeMarr’s other textbooks are Compensation: A Balanced Approach (DeMarr, Taylor, & Ferrante, 2026) and Negotiation and Dispute Resolution 2e (DeMarr & de Janasz, 2019). She has also published articles in Personnel Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Relations, Public Personnel Management, the International Journal of Conflict Management, and Management Teaching Review (MTR). Dr. DeMarr is an active member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) and regularly presents at their annual conferences. She was awarded the AOM Management Education Division’s (MED) J.B. “Ben” Arbaugh Outstanding Member Contribution & Leadership Award in 2024, MTR’s Best Pedagogical Contribution Award for 2021, and a number of teaching awards. She currently serves on the Journal of Management Education’s Editorial Review Board and is a Mentoring Program Coordinator and Executive Committee Member for MED. She also chaired AOM’s All-Academy Teaching Theme Committee from 2016-2019.