Degrees:
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Exeter; MBA, Xavier University; B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biography:
Jim Barge is a visiting assistant professor of management, teaching several undergraduate and 4+1 MBA courses. He has over 38 years of leadership experience in a broad range of civilian and military organizations. A retired US Navy Captain, he served 10 years on active duty in the submarine force and 16 more in the US Navy Reserves while simultaneously assuming significant leadership and process improvement roles at GE Aerospace in Cincinnati, Ohio. After focusing on careers in the US Navy and General Electric, Professor Barge ventured into Academia as an adjunct instructor in both undergraduate and graduate business schools, including Mount St. Joseph, Point University and Palm Beach Atlantic.
In 2019, Professor Barge co-authored an article entitled “Understanding Challenges to Leadership-as-Practice by Way of MacIntyre’s Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry”, which was published in the Business & Professional Ethics Journal. That work led to his dissertation which has focused on the development of a survey instrument designed to assess the individual moral worldviews of organizational leaders using, as a framework, four predominant versions of moral enquiry in Western society-traditionalism, rationalism, sentimentalism/emotivism and perspectivism- that find their basis in the work of preeminent moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre and other leading scholars.
Overall, his primary research and teaching interests include leader development, the intersection of leadership, ethics and philosophy, moral worldviews, leadership and artificial intelligence, and organizational change.
When not teaching and finishing his PhD, Professor Barge enjoys genealogy, reading, cycling and spending time with his lovely wife, Dawn, his eight grandchildren, and his rescued greyhound, Fritz.