Meet Our Business Faculty

Cathy M. Littlefield, Ed.D.

Cathy Littlefield,

Cathy M. Littlefield

Professor and Dean of Graduate Education and Business

Ed.D.Widener University
M.B.A West Chester University
B.S. Widener University

Subject Areas: Business

Dr. Cathy Littlefield currently serves as Professor and Dean of Graduate Education and Business. Dr. Littlefield joined Peirce in 2012.

As Dean of Graduate Education and Business, Dr. Littlefield oversees the College’s Graduate programs, as well as all of the programs in the Business Division. Her responsibilities include the organization, administration, continuous program review, planning, development and general effectiveness of the Division.

As a business professional with more than 26 years of experience in hospitality, human resources, business ownership and higher education, Dr. Littlefield combines practice with scholarship. She has been teaching graduate and undergraduate students at the university level since 2009, and, while at Peirce, was hired as the first full-time faculty member of the graduate division.

She holds a Master's in Business Administration and a Doctorate in Education, and her research interests include organic collaboration, collaborative learning and work environments, team development, course design and technology integration within the scope of teaching and learning. Dr. Littlefield is a published author of scholarly work and has presented at numerous professional conferences.

Dr. Littlefield's professional goals are always focused on student success and doing whatever it takes to impart knowledge, support and commitment to those around her. As an adult-learner herself, she understands the challenges of balancing work, family, civic engagement, community responsibilities and professional demands and helps others achieve that balance as well.

Contact Cathy M. Littlefield, Ed.D.: clittlefield@peirce.edu

    The full-time professors of our Human Resources Management faculty are dedicated to teaching our students practical, real-world lessons about managing organizations' most important resource: their people. In your introductory course, you'll benefit from our faculty's human resources experience by learning how to think about employment law and compliance, recruitment, selection, training and development of staff, compensation and benefits, motivation and performance appraisal from an HR perspective.

    As you move through the program, our faculty members will teach you key lessons about employment law, training development and design, HR information systems and human capital management. Our professors believe in educating students on how to take a strategic approach to managing employees and will impart knowledge around recruitment and retention practices, legal requirements and applying diverse approaches to specific situations in handling HR planning, forecasting, performance management affirmative action and succession planning.

    You'll also learn from our faculty how to focus on the selection, implementation and maintenance of HR information systems that help manage staffing, performance appraisals, compensation, compliance and workforce planning. Of course, before you can hire new staff, you need to make sure your organization is prepared to properly train them. In Training Development and Design, our Human Resources Management degree faculty will show you important theoretical models for training an development and connect them to the practical, real-world impacts these training lessons have on an organization's ability to succeed.

    As you move through the program, Peirce College's HR faculty will help you learn how to develop an organization in working toward a specific result; how to develop a workplace rewards system; maintain effective labor and employee relations; and to understand the implications of the globalized, diversified workforce on human resources management.

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