Edgar Schein
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| Edgar H. Schein | |
| Born | 1928 |
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| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | North American |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Chicago |
| Known for | coercive persuasion, organizational development, career development, group process consultation, organizational culture, corporate culture |
| Notable awards | Lifetime Achievement Award in Workplace Learning and Performance of the American Society of Training Directors, 2000 Everett Cherington Hughes Award for Career Scholarship, 2000 Marion Gislason Award for Leadership in Executive Development, 2002 |
Edgar H. Schein (born 1928), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. He is generally credited with inventing the term corporate culture.
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[edit] Schein's Organizational Culture Model
Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures; artifacts and behaviours, espoused values, and assumptions. The three levels refer to the layers of corporate culture. Artifacts include any tangible or verbally identifiable elements in an organization. Architecture, furniture, dress code, office jokes and history are all organizational artifacts. Values are the organizations stated or desired cultural elements. This is most often a written or stated tone that the CEO or President hope to exude throughout the office environment. Examples of this would be employee professionalism, or a family first mantra. Lastly, assumptions are the actual values that the culture represents, not necessarily correlated to the values. These assumptions are typically so well integrated in the office dynamic that they are hard to recognize from within.[1]
The model has experienced various modifications, such as the Raz update of Schein's organizational culture model, and others.
[edit] Coercive Persuasion
Schein has written on the issues surrounding coercive persuasion, comparing and contrasting brainwashing as a use for "goals that we deplore and goals that we accept."[2]
[edit] Education
- Ph.D., social psychology, Harvard University, 1952
- Master's Degree, Psychology, Stanford University, 1949
- University of Chicago
[edit] Publications
- Brainwashing and Totalitarianization in Modern Society (1959)
- Coercive Persuasion: A socio-psychological analysis of the "brainwashing" of American civilian prisoners by the Chinese Communists (1961), W. W. Norton (publishers)
- Organizational Psychology (1980) ISBN 0-13-641332-3
- Organizational Culture and Leadership (1985) ISBN 1-55542-487-2
- Process Consultation Revisited (1999) ISBN 0-201-34596-X
[edit] Awards, honors
- Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award in Workplace Learning and Performance of the American Society of Training and Development, February 3, 2000
- Everett Cherington Hughes Award for Career Scholarship, Careers Division of the Academy of Management, August 8, 2000
- Marion Gislason Award for Leadership in Executive Development, Boston University School of Management Executive Development Roundtable, December 11, 2002
- Professional
- Fellow, American Psychological Association
- Fellow, Academy of Management
- Board Member
- Advisory Board, Institute for Nuclear Power Operations
- Board Member, Massachusetts Audubon Society
- Board Member, Boston Lyric Opera
[edit] See also
For other individuals that have done more extensive research in areas related to Schein's research see:
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_schein_three_levels_culture.html
- ^ Organizational Learning as Cognitive Re-definition: Coercive Persuasion Revisited, Edgar H. Schein, Society for Organizational Learning., retrieved February 5, 2007.
The issue is similar to that faced by parents of children who have joined cults that have used coercive persuasion. Are the parents in turn justified in kidnapping their child out of the cult and using a deprogrammer to coercively persuade them back to a set of values that the parents are more comfortable with?
