Jennifer Chatman

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Jennifer Chatman
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TitleDistinguished Professor of Management
Academic background
Education UC Berkeley (BA, PhD)
Main interests Organizational culture

Jennifer A. Chatman is an American academic who is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Chatman is also the Co-Director of the Berkeley Haas Culture Initiative, the Assistant Dean for Learning Strategies at the Haas School of Business, and Editor for the journal Research in Organizational Behavior.

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Education

Chatman received her BA and PhD from UC Berkeley and began her career at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, before returning to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She served as the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School.[ citation needed ]

Research

Chatman's research explores how organizational culture relates to organizational performance and also focuses on providing a conceptually rigorous and valid approach to assessing culture. [1] [2]

Classic research in psychology, dating back to Sherif’s pioneering work on the so-called "Robber's Cave" experiments showed that social norms, particularly those that orient group members toward group goals, are remarkably strong predictors of behavior. Chatman’s work has been part of a more recent effort to link norms to processes and outcomes among diverse work groups. [3] [4]

Chatman’s research on leadership focuses on reconceptualizing traditional theories of leadership which have, by many accounts, reached a point of stagnation. By stripping down the psychological basis of leadership in influence she is able to make more progress in understanding how leaders affect followers in organizations. [5] [6]

Other activities

Chatman is a member of the Board of Directors of Simpson Manufacturing (NYSE: SSD) and a Trustee of Prospect Sierra School.[ citation needed ] She runs the Leading Strategy Execution Through Culture executive education program at Haas. [7]

Selected publications

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References

  1. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/papers/Chatman_Choi_Measuring%20Organizational%20Culture_2019.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  2. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/papers/Canning_Murphy_Emerson_Chatman_Dweck_2020_PSPB.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/papers/Chatman_Greer_Sherman_Doerr_2019_Organization_Science.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/papers/ASQ-2015-Goncalo-1-30.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  5. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/papers/O'Reilly_Chatman_CaliforniaManagementReview_2020.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  6. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/papers/O'Reilly_Doerr_Chatman_See%20You%20In%20Court_2017.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  7. "Leading Strategy Execution through Culture". 26 September 2017.