Planning is a key management role in any organization, whether a private business, a nonprofit organization, a corporate business or a government agency. Managers engage in different types of ...

As some blog readers will recall, I regularly read a number of academic journals with articles relevant to public management, and sometimes blog about them to share the findings. I am particularly ...

Changing an organization has been compared to teaching an elephant to dance. People may resist change because they're happy as things are, they're worried about losing out, or they're scared to leave ...

Periodically, we see a fire department conduct a management process that deserves a standing ovation. An excellent example of this can be found in the Montgomery County, MD, Fire and Rescue Services.

Artificial reinforcement learning is just one lens to evaluate organizations. However, this thought experiment taught me that ...

Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals, groups, and organizations interact and influence one another. Though, in the field of business management, it is a largely used concept as ...

How often have you heard somebody — a new CEO, a journalist, a management consultant, a leadership guru, a fellow employee — talk about the urgent need to change the culture? They want to make it ...

Edgar Schein's theory defines culture through three levels: artifacts, espoused values, and basic assumptions that shape how organizations truly operate.

Knowledge is power in the business world. It is the driving force behind innovation, growth and success. But knowledge is not something that can easily be bought or replaced—it must be carefully ...

The Department of Management & Organizations prepares students to understand and lead organizations with a wide range of missions and purposes. You can choose to focus your major in one of four ...

In 1964, the Department of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management created the field’s first doctoral program—and we’ve been leading in innovation ...