Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior Brochure
General Information
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah offers a program of study leading to a Ph.D. through the Department of Management with a specialization in Organizational Behavior. The Organizational Behavior specialization focuses on the social psychology of organizational life. This focus translates into a broad array of concerns including ethical decision making in organizations, prejudice at work, negotiations, workplace justice, group decision making process, the role of time in groups, organizations’ self-defeating organizational behaviors, intra-group conflict, and the display of sexuality at work.
Students also select at least one supporting allied field that must be outside the Management Department. The PhD program in Management is flexible, and each student's program is designed according to his/her experience, interests, and career goals.
The Department of Management PhD program is designed to provide opportunities for individuals to develop excellence in their primary and supporting areas of study as well as in the quantitative and/or qualitative research methodologies through a set of seminars. The seminars are designed to provide the required training and education necessary to make contributions to published literature in the field; pedagogical excellence for advanced courses in a specialized area of management; and mastery of theory, research, methodology, and practice in one of the fields of management.
Doctoral students in the Management Department work closely with faculty members on research and teaching assignments throughout their program. Students will have an opportunity to be involved in faculty members' research projects, as well as to develop projects of their own. All students will have the opportunity to teach at least one course in their major area of study.
Highlights of the Organization Behavior specialization include:
- Intense student-faculty collaboration on learning and research
- Extensive supporting coursework in psychology
- Coursework largely tailored to a student’s interests
- Opportunity to select courses in communications, philosophy, sociology, economics, and other disciplines
- Student designated research funds
- An engaged, influential faculty
- The academic market for organizational behavior graduates is very good with starting salaries often exceeding $125,000
- Management Speaker Series
PhD Committee Representative
Dr. Arthur Brief
Email: arthur.brief@business.utah.edu
Phone: 801-585-9916
Organizational Behavior Faculty
Bryan Bonner (David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor)- 2000 Ph.D. University of Illinois
Research/teaching focus: Organizational Behavior
Recent Publications: European Journal of Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, European Journal of Social Psychology
Arthur Brief (George S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics and Presidential Professor)-
1974 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research/teaching focus: Ethical Decision Making Organizational Behavior
Recent Publications: Journal of Applied Psychology, "Diversity at Work" Cambridge University Press
Tina Diekmann (David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Professor)- 1994 Ph.D. Kellogg Graduate School Of Management, Northwestern University
Research/teaching focus: Negotiation, social perception, fairness, impression management, decision making, groups
Recent Publications: Social Justice Research, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly
Gerardo Okhuysen (David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor)- 1997 Ph.D. Stanford University
Research/teaching focus: Advanced Groups and Teams, Managerial activity and legitimacy in organizations
Recent Publications: Motivation and Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Kristin Smith-Crowe (Assistant Professor)- 2004 PHD Tulane University
Research/teaching focus: Behavioral Ethics, Emotions, Worker Safety Training, Research Methods
Recent Publications: Research in Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology
Harris Sondak (Professor)- 1990 PHD Kellogg Graduate School Of Management, Northwestern University
Research/teaching focus: Psychology of allocation decisions, group process and decisions, procedural justice and ethics
Recent Publications: Social Justice Research, Journal of Economic Psychology, Academy of Management Review
