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Imane Hijal-Moghrabi is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Her research interests include innovation and change, performance management, performance budgeting, ethics, and human resources management-related issues. Her work appears in Administration and Society, Public Administration Quarterly, Public Performance and Management Review, Public Organization Review, Public Integrity, and Review of Public Personnel Administration.

Meghna Sabharwal is Associate Professor and Program Head in the Public and Nonprofit Management program in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research focuses on public human resources management, specifically related to diversity, job satisfaction, comparative human resources and high-skilled migration. She is widely published in public administration journals, and is the winner of three best paper awards. She also has two book publications: Public Personnel Administration (6th Ed.) and Public Administration in South Asia: India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. She serves on several editorial boards including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Review of Public Personnel Management. She is the recipient of two National Science Foundation grants.

Kannan Ramanathan is Clinical Professor of Operations Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas. He teaches courses in Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Business Analytics using Excel, Lean and Six Sigma Processes, Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations, Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Six Sigma and Beyond, Spreadsheet Modeling and Quality Control (Six Sigma). His research interests are in the area of quality improvement and property rights. He has a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.