Professor Wechsler’s research is concerned with public leadership, strategic planning and management, organization theory, and human resource management. His research has been published in Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, Journal of the American Planning Association, Public Productivity and Management Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, other academic and practitioner journals and numerous edited books. He has served on the editorial boards of Public Productivity and Management Review and Journal of Public Affairs Education and was formerly book review editor of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Wechsler has provided consulting, training and technical assistance to state and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. Before coming to the Truman School, he was dean of the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine and a faculty member at the University of Illinois and Florida State University.
						
																					
							History of Employment
							
								
									
										Position
										Division
										Organization
										Start
										End
									 
																			
											Dean Emeritus
											Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs
											University of Missouri-Columbia
											2012
											Present
										 
																			
											Director
											Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs and Institute of Public Policy
											University of Missouri
											2000
											2012
										 
																			
											Professor
											Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs and Institute of Public Policy
											University of Missouri
											2000
											2012
										 
																			
											Professor
											Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service
											University of Southern Maine
											1998
											2000
										 
																			
											Dean
											Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service
											University of Southern Maine
											1998
											2000
										 
																			
											Professor
											Institute of Government and Public Affairs, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
											University of Illinois-Chicago
											1994
											1997
										 
																			
											Director of the Public Management Program
											Institute of Government and Public Affairs, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
											University of Illinois-Chicago
											1994
											1997
										 
																			
											Associate Professor
											Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
											Florida State University
											1984
											1994
										 
																			
											Assistant Professor
											Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
											Florida State University
											1984
											1994
										 
																			
											Director of Graduate Studies
											Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy
											Florida State University
											
											
										 
																			
											Director
											Florida Center for Productivity Improvement
											Florida State University
											
											
										 
																			
											Faculty Associate
											Florida Center for Productivity Improvement
											Florida State University