Industrial and organizational psychology "focuses the lens of psychological science on a key aspect of human life,namely,their work lives. In general,the goals of I-O psychology are to better understand and optimize the effectiveness,health,and well-being of both individuals and organizations." It is an applied discipline within psychology and is an international profession. I-O psychology is also known as occupational psychology in the United Kingdom,organisational psychology in Australia and New Zealand,and work and organizational (WO) psychology throughout Europe and Brazil. Industrial,work,and organizational (IWO) psychology is the broader,more global term for the science and profession.
Daniel Goleman is an American psychologist,author,and science journalist. For twelve years,he wrote for The New York Times,reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half,a bestseller in many countries,and is in print worldwide in 40 languages. Apart from his books on emotional intelligence,Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception,creativity,transparency,meditation,social and emotional learning,ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis,and the Dalai Lama's vision for the future.
Diversity training is a type of corporate training designed to facilitate positive intergroup interaction,reduce prejudice and discrimination,and teach different individuals how to work together effectively.
The Harvard Board of Overseers is an advisory board of alumni at Harvard University. Unlike the Harvard Corporation,the Board of Overseers is not a fiduciary governing board,but instead "has the power of consent to certain actions of the Corporation." Formed in 1642,the Board of Overseers predates the Corporation's 1650 incorporation.
Organizational behavior or organisational behaviour is the "study of human behavior in organizational settings,the interface between human behavior and the organization,and the organization itself". Organizational behavioral research can be categorized in at least three ways:
Rakesh Khurana is an Indian-American educator. He is a professor of sociology at Harvard University,a professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School,and the dean of Harvard College.
Teresa M. Amabile is an American academic who is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.
Stacy Blake-Beard is a tenured professor of management at the Simmons College School of Management in Massachusetts. She has been teaching organizational behavior at Simmons College since 2002. She was previously Assistant Professor of Administration,Planning,and Social Policy at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education,and lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on organizational behavior,cultural diversity in organizations,and mentoring relationships at work.
Bernice Resnick Sandler was an American women's rights activist. She is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX,a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972,in conjunction with representatives Edith Green and Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh in the 1970s. She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times. Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards women on campus,coining the phrase "the chilly campus climate".
Amy Joy Casselberry Cuddy is an American social psychologist,author and speaker. She is a proponent of "power posing",a self-improvement technique whose scientific validity has been questioned. She has served as a faculty member at Rutgers University,Kellogg School of Management and Harvard Business School. Cuddy's most cited academic work involves using the stereotype content model that she helped develop to better understand the way people think about stereotyped people and groups. Though Cuddy left her tenure-track position at Harvard Business School in the spring of 2017,she continues to contribute to its executive education programs.
Gender diversity is equitable representation of people of different genders. It most commonly refers to an equitable ratio of men and women,but also includes people of non-binary genders. Gender diversity on corporate boards has been widely discussed,and many ongoing initiatives study and promote gender diversity in fields traditionally dominated by men,including computing,engineering,medicine,and science. It is argued that some proposed explanations are without merit and are in fact dangerous,while others do play a part in a complex interaction of factors. It is suggested that the very nature of science may contribute to the removal of women from the 'pipeline'.
Bruce Mitchel Kogut is an American organizational theorist,and Professor of Leadership and Ethics,Director of the Stanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at the Columbia Business School. He is particularly known for his work on corporate governance,and with Udo Zander on knowledge-based theory of the firm.
Adam Daniel Galinsky is an American social psychologist known for his research on leadership,power,negotiations,decision-making,diversity,and ethics. He is Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business and Chair of Management Division at Columbia Business School.
Mari Ruti was a Finnish-Canadian philosopher. She had served as Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies on the graduate faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto,Canada,and as an Undergraduate Instructor at their Mississauga campus. She was an interdisciplinary scholar within the theoretical humanities working at the intersection of contemporary theory,continental philosophy,psychoanalytic theory,cultural studies,trauma theory,posthumanist ethics,gender,and sexuality studies.
Dana R. Carney is an American psychologist. She is associate professor of business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley. She is a Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow,an affiliate of the Department of Psychology and the director of the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California,Berkeley.
Katherine Williams Phillips was an American business theorist and the Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character at Columbia University's Business School. She headed the Sanford C. Bernstein &Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia,and was Senior Vice Dean.
Katherine L. Milkman is an American economist who is the James G. Dinan endowed Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously the President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.
Jessica Henderson Daniel is a psychologist and educator,known for her work on mental health in the Black community,racial trauma,and the effects of stress and violence on Black children and adolescents. Daniel was the first African American woman to lead the American Psychological Association (APA),serving her term as president of the organization in 2018.
Ronit Kark is a full professor of leadership and organizational psychology in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University,Israel,and the founder and former director of the 'Gender in the Field' Graduate Program at the Gender Studies department of Bar-Ilan. She is a distinguished research professor at the University of Exeter Business School and an affiliate scholar at the Center For Gender in Organizations (CGO) at Simmons University,Boston.
Sunita Sah is a professor of management and organizations at Cornell University's SC Johnson Graduate School of Management,and a core faculty fellow in the new Cornell Health Policy Center. Her book,"Defy:The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes" will be published by Penguin Random House in January 2025. Sah is the director of Cornell University's Academic Leadership Institute. She was formerly the KPMG Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge,where she remains an Honorary Fellow.
