Julia Gluesing Email & Phone Number

Troy, Mi, Us

Julia Gluesing is a business and organizational anthropologist and Research Professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University. Julia also serves as the Associate Director of the Institute for Information Technology and Culture (IITC), and is an adjunct professor of Anthropology. In her current assignment in Engineering, she is co-director of the Global Executive Track Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, where she teaches a Global Perspectives in engineering management course and a series of courses integrating the perspectives of international business, anthropology, economics and finance, and political science to focus on specific regions and cultures of the world. Julia also teaches the management of technology change and virtual teaming in global organizations and serves as a leadership project advisor in the Ford and Visteon Engineering Management Masters Program (EMMP). In her research, she is the Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation Grant, the “Digital Diffusion Dashboard,” to study the diffusion of innovation across the global enterprise by tapping into an organization’s the information technology infrastructure. Julia has been a Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on five previous National Science Foundation research grants. She has published professionally, most recently as an editor and contributing author of Mobile Work Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences (Blackwell 2008) and a contributing author in Virtual Teams that Work: Creating Conditions for Virtual Team Effectiveness (Jossey-Bass 2003), Handbook of Managing Global Complexity (Blackwell 2003), and Crossing Cultures: Lessons from Master Teachers (Routledge 2004).

In 1993, Julia Gluesing founded Cultural Connections, Inc., a research, consulting and education firm supporting global business development. At Ford Motor Company she served as a consultant, researcher and trainer to help members of vehicle program teams and functional teams develop strategies and skills for working globally. She has also conducted research in global work practices, cross-cultural and organizational communication for Nissan Motor Corporation, EDS Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Exxon Corporation, Bull H.N. Information Systems, General Motors, NSK Corporation, Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals, and Sheraton, Marriott, and Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Prior to founding CCI, Julia was employed as a research manager and training consultant with Sandy Corporation, a leading communication and training firm serving Fortune 100 companies. Before joining Sandy, Julia spent 11 years in the hospitality industry, including six years with Westin Hotels, and three years as Marketing Coordinator for the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau with responsibility for international marketing. She has served on the faculty in the Michigan State University School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management and in the Department of Communication. While continuing to serve as a professor at Wayne State University, Julia is now primarily an active consultant and researcher in the private sector and especially welcomes an exciting or challenging business problem related to crossing cultures or product development in global settings.