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Edgar Schein

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#528

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#251

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Social Psychology

#56

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#65

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#41

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According to Wikipedia, Edgar Henry Schein was a Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist who was professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He founded the discipline of organizational behavior, and made notable contributions in the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. He was the son of former University of Chicago professor Marcel Schein.

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Edgar Schein's Published Works

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Organisational culture and leadership (1991) (14975)
Toward a theory of organizational socialization (1977) (3091)
Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View (1985) (1991)
Career Dynamics: Matching Individual and Organizational Needs (1978) (1779)
Culture: The Missing Concept in Organization Studies. (1996) (1540)
Coming to a new awareness of organizational culture (1984) (1372)
Three Cultures of Management: The Key to Organizational Learning (1996) (1147)
The role o f the founder in creating organizational culture (1983) (1039)
The Corporate Culture Survival Guide (1999) (989)
On Dialogue, Culture, and Organizational Learning (1993) (967)
Kurt Lewin's change theory in the field and in the classroom: Notes toward a model of managed learning (1996) (852)
Process Consultation : Its Role in Organization Development (1969) (746)
Career anchors revisited: Implications for career development in the 21st century (1996) (676)
The Individual, the Organization, and the Career: A Conceptual Scheme (1971) (627)
Process consultation revisited : building the helping relationship (1999) (617)
The role of founder in creating organizational culture (2007) (556)
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (2012) (469)
The clinical perspective in fieldwork (1987) (430)
The Corporate Culture Survival Guide: Sense and Nonsense about Culture Change (2000) (361)
Career Anchors: Discovering Your Real Values (1985) (338)
Personal and organizational change through group methods : the laboratory approach (1966) (336)
Sense and nonsense about culture and climate (1999) (270)
The Role of the Founder in Creating Organizational Culture (1995) (250)
The leader of the future (1995) (244)
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling (2013) (215)
The role of the CEO in the management of change : the case of information technology (1975) (195)
Professional education: some new directions (1972) (181)
Culture as an environmental context for careers (1984) (174)
Process consultation, action research, and clinical inquiry : are they the same? (1995) (168)
What you need to know about organizational culture. (1986) (167)
Clinical Inquiry/Research (2008) (164)
Individuals and Careers (1983) (159)
The role of the founder in the creation of organizational culture (1983) (158)
The concept of “client” from a process consultation perspective: A guide for change agents (1997) (150)
Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across An Industry (2005) (129)
How can organizations learn faster?: the problem of entering the Green Room (1992) (126)
The Chinese indoctrination program for prisoners of war; a study of attempted brainwashing. (1956) (124)
Empowerment, coercive persuasion and organizational learning: do they connect? (1999) (117)
2. Does Japanese Management Style Have a Message for American Managers (1993) (113)
Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (2009) (105)
Career anchors and career paths : a panel study of management school graduates (1974) (99)
Legitimating Clinical Research in the Study of Organizational Culture. (1993) (99)
Attitude Change During Management Education (1967) (97)
Models and Tools for Stability and Change in Human Systems (2002) (90)
From Brainwashing to Organizational Therapy: A Conceptual and Empirical Journey in Search of ‘Systemic’ Health and a General Model of Change Dynamics. A Drama in Five Acts (2006) (90)
Organizational culture and leadership - 2/E. (2002) (88)
Occupational socialization in the professions: the case of role innovation. (2015) (81)
Career anchors and job/role planning : the links between career pathing and career development (1990) (78)
Healing the Professional Culture of Medicine. (2019) (78)
Organizational learning: what is new? (1996) (77)
The Role of the Consultant: Content Expert or Process Facilitator?. (1978) (67)
The anxiety of learning. Interview by Diane L. Coutu. (2002) (62)
Coercive Persuasion : A Socio-psychological Analysis of the "Brainwashing" of American Civilian Prisoners by the Chinese Communists (1971) (61)
Leading culture change in global organizations : aligning culture and strategy (2012) (61)
Organization development : a Jossey-Bass reader (2006) (59)
Organizational Psychology Then and Now: Some Observations (2015) (58)
A prisoner of war syndrome: apathy as a reaction to severe stress. (1956) (58)
Learning to Help Through Humble Inquiry and Implications for Management Research, Practice, and Education: An Interview With Edgar H. Schein (2011) (57)
Innovative cultures and organizations (2003) (55)
Organizational Culture: What it is and How to Change it (1990) (55)
Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor (1968) (47)
Learning for Leadership.@@@Personal and Organizational Change Through Group Methods. (1966) (47)
Organisationskultur und Leadership (2018) (46)
Team building: proven strategies for improving team performance, fourth edition (2007) (45)
The Role of Art and the Artist (2001) (43)
The Art of managing human resources (1987) (40)
Increased organizational effectiveness through better human resources planning and development (1976) (39)
The effect of reward on adult imitative behavior. (1954) (39)
Career anchors and job/role planning: Tools for career and talent management (2016) (38)
The Legitimacy of Organizational Influence (1962) (37)
Lessons for managers and consultants (1987) (36)
Learning when and how to lie (2004) (35)
Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (2018) (35)
Corporate culture and organizational effectiveness, by D. R. Denison. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1990, 267 pp. $39.95 (1989) (33)
Leadership and motivation : essays (1966) (32)
Career Survival: Strategic Job and Role Planning (1993) (31)
Five traps for consulting psychologists: or, How I learned to take culture seriously. (2003) (30)
Occupational socialization in the professions: The case of role innovation (1971) (29)
Its role in organization development (1988) (29)
Organizational and managerial culture as a facilitator or inhibitor of organizational transformation (1995) (28)
Commentary: What is an Entrepreneur? (1995) (24)
Kurt Lewin in the clasroom, in the field, and in change theory : notes toward a model of managed learning (1995) (22)
Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster (2016) (22)
Learning when and how to lie: A neglected aspect of organizational and occupational socialization. (2004) (20)
Reactions, Reflections, Rejoinders, and a Challenge (2009) (20)
Interpersonal Communication, Group Solidarity, and Social Influence (1960) (20)
The Impact of Transnational Institutions on Cultural Values and Vice Versa (2001) (18)
In defense of theory Y (1975) (17)
Organizational Culture: A Dynamic Model (2015) (15)
Organization development : science, technology, or philosophy? (1989) (15)
Douglas McGregor: theoretician, moral philosopher or behaviorist? (2011) (15)
Career Stress in Changing Times (1990) (15)
The effects of sleep deprivation on performance in a simulated communication task. (1957) (14)
Reclaiming “Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history” – commentaries (2013) (14)
The corporate culture survival guide, New and rev. ed. (2009) (14)
ENTREPRENEURS: WHAT THEY'RE REALLY LIKE (1989) (13)
International human resource management: New directions, perpetual issues, and missing themes (1986) (12)
Planning and managing change (2006) (12)
The Hawthorne group studies revisited: a defense of theory Y (1974) (12)
Brainwashing and Totalitarianization in Modern Society (1959) (12)
Distinguishing characteristic of collaborators and resisters among American prisoners of war. (1957) (11)
Attitude change during management education: a study of organizational influences on student attitudes. (1965) (11)
Humility and Ignorance: What It Takes to Be an Effective Process Consultant (2001) (11)
The Student Image of the Teacher (1967) (11)
The culture of media as viewed from an organizational culture perspective (2003) (9)
Taking Culture Seriously in Organization Development: A New Role for OD? (2003) (9)
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Social Behavior (1959) (9)
Models of consultation: What do organizations of the 1990s need? (1990) (9)
Opinions: All About Culture (2015) (8)
Some Observations on Chinese Methods of Handling Prisoners of War (1956) (8)
Developing your career : know your career anchors and develop your options (1980) (8)
Supervisory Attitudes Toward the Legitimacy of Influencing Subordinates (1966) (8)
Creating a Learning Culture: Innovative cultures and adaptive organizations (2004) (7)
Career Orientations and Perceptions of Rewarded Activity in a Research Organization (2011) (7)
Process Consultation Volume 1 (2017) (7)
Reaction Patterns to Severe, Chronic Stress in American Army Prisoners of War of the Chinese1 (2010) (7)
Relationships as a key to change. Ed Schein on the legacy and future of Change Management (2019) (6)
The Reluctant Professor: Implications for University Management. (1973) (6)
Career anchors trainer's manual (1985) (6)
A Social Psychologist Discovers Chicago Sociology (1989) (6)
Projective test responses of prisoners of war following repatriation. (1958) (6)
Commentary: The Family as a Metaphor for Culture (1998) (5)
Whistle Blowing: A Message to Leaders and Managers Comment on "Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organizations". (2015) (5)
Can One Change Organizations, or Only People in Organizations? (1973) (5)
The Merger as Organizational Process (1971) (5)
A Social Psychologist Discovers Chicago Sociology@@@Men and Their Work@@@Men Who Manage@@@The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1989) (5)
Conceptual Scheme (2020) (5)
Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development.@@@Organization Development: Its Nature, Origins, and Prospects.@@@Organization Development: Strategies and Models.@@@Process Consultation: Its Role in Organization Development.@@@Interpersonal Peacemaking: Confrontations and Third Party Consultation (1971) (4)
Organizational Socialization in the Early Career of Industrial Managers (2015) (4)
Culture Assessment as an OD Intervention (2014) (4)
Forces Which Undermine Management Development (1963) (4)
18 Clinical Inquiry/Research (2008) (4)
Corporate Culture: What It Is and How to Change It (2015) (4)
National and Occupational Culture Factors in Safety Culture (2014) (4)
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OPINIONS (1957) (3)
Follow-up Intelligence Test Data on Prisoners Repatriated from North Korea (1962) (2)
Conflict and Creativity: Control of the Mind, Part 2. (1964) (2)
The generation gap (1969) (2)
Commentary from Edgar H. Schein on "Complexity and safety" by Rosa Antonia Carrillo. (2011) (2)
A taxonomy of technically based careers (1974) (2)
Epilogue: Something New in History? (1957) (2)
Organizational Psychology: Problems and Prospects for the Future. (1973) (2)
Teaching Organizational Psychology To Middle Managers: a Process Approach (1980) (2)
If stress changes belief, what about Pavlov? (1958) (1)
Taking Culture Seriously in Organization Development (2015) (1)
The Levels of Culture (2020) (1)
Problems of the first year at work: report of the first career panel re-union (2011) (1)
Career Survival: Strategic Job and Role Planning. Pfeiffer Career Series. (1995) (1)
SMR forum: improving face-to-face relationships. (1981) (1)
Human resource practices in organizational transformation : are they culture specific? (1995) (1)
The Hughes Award (2004) (1)
Notes towards a model of organisational therapy (2018) (1)
The Role of Coercive Persuasion in Education and Learning: Subjugation or Animation? (2014) (1)
The Evolution of a Model of Change Dynamics (2007) (1)
ROLES--NOT RULES--FOR THE POW (1963) (1)
Management Education, Some Troublesome Realities and Possible Remedies (2015) (1)
Process consultation as a general philosophy of helping (1989) (1)
Expanding Professional Design Education Through Workshops in the Applied Behavioral Sciences (2011) (1)
Professional and Ethical Issues in Clinical Versus Ethnographic Work (1987) (1)
Discovering the Clinical Perspective (1987) (1)
The Problem of Inclusion from a Multicultural Perspective 1 (2020) (1)
Five issues in human relations training (1962) (1)
Visions of a Healthy World: Views from Thought Leaders (2016) (1)
Strategic Pragmatism: The Culture of Singapore's Economic Development Board . By Edgar H. Schein. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1996. xvi, 275 pp. $27.50. (1997) (1)
The Importance of Both the Technical and Social Domains in Creating a Culture That Accelerates Improvement in Healthcare (2020) (1)
Dark Secrets: Face-Work, Organisational Culture and Disaster Prevention (2011) (1)
occupational socialization (Introduction by Hugh Gunz and Paul Willman) Learning when and how to lie: A neglected aspect of organizational and (2009) (1)
Job/role analysis and planning: a workbook (1992) (1)
Managers at mid-career: new issues in the world of work (2011) (0)
Organizations and Dilemmas. (1969) (0)
Lessons in Leadership: Edgar Schein — Part 2 (2018) (0)
Mergers and Acquisitions: Some Critical Issues for COE's [i.e. CEO's ] (2015) (0)
A Conversation with Ed Schein: The Leader as Helper (2010) (0)
Call for Papers (2007) (0)
Interview with Edgar Schein (2002) (0)
Global warming (2021) (0)
Socialization and Innovation: A Rejoinder to Herb Shepard (1971) (0)
Book Review:The Study of Organizations. David Dunkerley (1973) (0)
Attitude Change in the Early Management Career: A 10 Year Follow-Up Study (2018) (0)
The Role of White Male Culture in Engaging White Men to be Inclusive Leaders (2020) (0)
Relationships as a key to change. Ed Schein on the legacy and future of Change Management (2019) (0)
Groups on the Loose. (1984) (0)
Management Education: Socialization for What? (2015) (0)
Career Anchors for Leaders (2010) (0)
Changing Role of the Personnel Manager. (1975) (0)
"Clarifying Organizational Culture: Conceptual Clarifications, Extensions, and Research Directions" (2014) (0)
Why do we have so many problems understanding each other ? (2003) (0)
The Academic as Artist (2009) (0)
TRAINING IN INDUSTRY: EDUCATION OR INDOCTRINATION?-2. (1964) (0)
How to improve meetings (1975) (0)
Proceedings of the Career Research Conference, April 30-May 2, 1978, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conference Center, Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts (2015) (0)
All about humanizing organizations. (1977) (0)
From the Founding Editor (2002) (0)
The Student Image of the Teacher in a Business School (2015) (0)
Influential Research and Practice in ODC Dynamics (2012) (0)
How the Clinical and the Ethnographic Relationship Differ (1987) (0)
Toward an Integration of Technology in Higher Education (2015) (0)
Don’t Get Caught in the Middle (2019) (0)
Four faces of organization. (1964) (0)
The Generation Gap: Implications for Education and Management (2015) (0)
Career rehabilitation for ex-prisoners of war, (1972) (0)
Argyris vs Organizational Sociology--Round 1. (1973) (0)
Introduction: Challenges of the scholar-practitioner: a symposium in honor of Edgar Schein (2009) (0)
Focus on Leadership and Leading: So You Want to Be a Leader? (1993) (0)
The HBR agenda (2011) (0)
In This Issue (2005) (0)
Governing OD Growth and History:Re-visiting the 1969 Addison-Wesley 6-volume Series with OD Scholars (2015) (0)
Management succeeds or fails in proportion as it is accepted without reservation by the group as authority and leader. (2006) (0)
Learning in the Lean Aerospace Initiative (2000) (0)
组织心理学 = Organizational psychology (1987) (0)
Call for Papers—"The Challenges of the Scholar-Practitioner: A Special Issue in Honor of Edgar H. Schein" (2007) (0)
Response to Manfred Kets de Vries's Commentary (2000) (0)
The Study of Alumni: Some Results and Some Questions from the Sloan School Survey (2015) (0)
Gathering, Analyzing, and Validating Data (1987) (0)
Cognitive, Individualistic, Thoughtful and Selective. (1966) (0)
"Creating Relational and Organizational Change: Past, Present and Future of Intervention Research" (2014) (0)
What Are the Lessons of the OD Fable? (1988) (0)
Improving face-to-face skills (1980) (0)
Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge and Linda Holbeche. Organization Develop- ment: A Practitioner’s Guide for OD and HR. London, UK: Kogan (2012) (0)
In Search of Organizational Realities. (1986) (0)
The Id as Salesman. (1957) (0)

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