About Vic Becker

Victor Becker is a retired Senior Human Resources Executive with over 35 years in the high technology and retail supermarket industries. He leaves a HR legacy of reducing turnover; developing and retaining high potential employees; controlling benefit costs while providing a high quality level of benefits; minimizing third party intervention and driving efficiencies in HR processes.

His most recent position was the Vice President, Human Resources for NETSCOUT Systems, a publicly held software company (NASDAQ – NTCT), founded in 1984 and is the leading provider of Network Performance Management Solutions. He also served as the Vice President, Human Resources for Phase Forward, (acquired by ORACLE in 2010) was a publicly held software company (NASDAQ – PFWD), founded in 1997 and was the leading provider of integrated data collection and data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. Becker also held senior human resources roles with Authoria Inc., Inacom Inc., ENTEX Information Services, Data General Corporation (now EMC) and the Stop and Shop Companies, Inc. He earned a BS in Management from Providence College.

Although born in King of Prussia, PA when the Becker family relocated to the greater Boston area at age 10 Becker became a “New Englander” and a devout Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins fan.

Everything You Know about Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School is Mr. Becker’s first book and the inspiration to write it was very simple. Upon reflection of my career post retirement I realized that all the companies that I had been a part of were, for the most part successful. They were successful in spite of the fact that adolescent behavior was pervasive throughout. How much more could they accomplish if the eliminated such behavior? The book is really a practical guide to assist businesses to identify and fix/eliminate the adolescent shenanigans that occurs in most organizations.