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Organizational Science is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry focusing on employee and organizational health, well-being, and effectiveness. Organizational Science is both a science and a practice, enhanced understanding leads to applications and interventions that benefit the individual, work groups, the organization, the customer, the community, and the larger society in which the organization operates.
Specific topics of study in Organizational Science include, but are not limited to:
- Team Processes and Performance
- Organizational Structure and Effectiveness
- Selection, Testing, and Promotion
- Leadership
- Organizational Culture and Climate
- Training and Development
- Performance Evaluation
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Workplace Diversity
- Employee Attitudes
- Job Satisfaction and Turnover
- Rewards and Recognition
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- Communication Effectiveness
- Technology and Work
- Employee Motivation and Participation
- Employee Citizenship and Deviance
- Work- Life Programs
- Organizations and External Environment
- Customer Service and Satisfaction
- Organizational Behavior
- Employee Recruitment and Socialization
- Interorganizational Relations
- Organizational Change
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The discipline stems from (in alphabetical order): Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Resources Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Communication, Organizational Sociology and Social Psychology.
Our Mission
Our mission is to become national leaders in organizational science scholarship, to achieve excellence in organizational science doctoral education, and, through both, ultimately advance employee and organizational health, well-being, and effectiveness.
Our Values
- Commitment to openness, honesty, forthrightness,
and the highest standards of integrity and ethical professional behavior in all
that we do
- Maintain a professional, collegial, respectful,
and inclusive community
- Promote communication, cooperation, and
collaborations between faculty members and between faculty members and students
in this interdisciplinary program
- Promote the application of Organizational
Science scholarship and methods to the improvement of the world of work by
providing high quality organizational science consulting and outreach efforts;
internships; and promoting public awareness of the field of organizational
science
- Support organizational science students and
faculty in their efforts to study, research, develop, apply, and teach the
principles, findings, and methods of organizational science
- Value all types of high quality research from
various disciplines be it qualitative, quantitative, lab-based, field-based,
micro in-orientation, macro in-orientation, very basic, or very applied
- Maintain and foster our interdisciplinary
foundation
- Value and recognize the importance of the
science/practice model in our student training and the variety of career paths
it may support
- Commitment to thoughtfulness, reflection,
flexibility, and the rigorous scrutiny of ideas.
Graduates of the program will be prepared to assume leadership roles as organizational scholars, researchers, and educators in academic institutions and as practitioners and policy makers in a wide range of public and private settings. By doing so, our graduating doctoral students will be further promoting our core mission to advance employee and organizational health, well-being, and effectiveness.
It is the University's 15th doctoral program
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