Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior is designed to prepare you for an academic and research career in the interdisciplinary study of individual and group behavior in organizations, intraorganizational structures and processes, and the relationship of organizations with their environments.
Typical Coursework
Foundational courses:
- Foundations of organizational behavior
- Macro organizational behavior
- Micro organizational behavior
Methodology classes:
- Statistics classes
- Qualitive research methods
Disciplinary courses in:
- Sociology
- Psychology
Proseminars:
- Organizational Behavior Speaker Series featuring globally renowned researchers
- Teaching and professional development
Alumni Highlights
- Emily Block, University of Alberta
- Teresa Cardador, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Erik Dane, Washington University in St. Louis
- Yuri Mishina, Imperial College London
- Tim Pollock, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- Kevin Rockmann, George Mason University
Recent Placements
- Indian School of Business
- Purdue University
- Texas A&M University
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- University of Manitoba
Areas of Faculty Research
- Cognition in organizations
- Collective intelligence
- Computational social science
- Corporate demography
- Corporate governance
- Creativity
- Decision-making
- Diversity
- Emotional intelligence
- Ethics
- Groups and teams Ideology
- Industrial evolution
- Innovation
- Institutional theory
- Learning
- Leadership
- Market emergence
- Media
- Meaningful work
- Negotiations
- Organizational attention
- Organizational change
- Organizational evolution
- Organizational identity
- Organizational intelligence
- Organizational names
- Organizational practices
- Product demography
- Reputation
- Status
- Stigma
- Social evaluations
- Social identity
- Values
Highlights of Faculty-Student Collaboration
- Li, Y. & Khessina, O.M (in-press). Before birth: How provisional spaces shape the localized emergence of new organizational forms. Academy of Management Journal.
- Kim, S., Lucas, B., & Goncalo, J. (2023). Low power warm-up effect: understanding the effect of power on creativity over time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 107: 104474.
- Kim, S., Goncalo, J.A., & Rodas, M. (2023). The cost of freedom: Creative ideation boosts both feelings of autonomy and the fear of judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 105: 104432.
- Katz, J.H., Mann, T.C., Shen, X., Goncalo, J.A., Ferguson, M.J. (2022). Implicit impressions of creative people: Creativity evaluation in a stigmatized domain, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 169: 104-116.
- Katz, J., Herman, G., Johnson, M., & Loewenstein, J. (2021). Cultivating not gatekeeping: A key leadership role in the creative process. BMJ Leader, 5(1): 9-13.
- Kim, J., & Loewenstein, J. (2021). Analogical encoding fosters ethical decision making because improved knowledge of ethical principles increases moral awareness. Journal of Business Ethics, 172: 307–324.
- Cheng, J., Love, E., & Chhillar, D. (2020). National innovation ecosystems in the G-20 countries: Institutions, knowledge infrastructure, and firm capabilities. In Knowledge Infrastructure, and Firm Capabilities.
- Goncalo, J.A., & Katz, J.H. (2020). Your soul spills out: The Creative act feels self-disclosing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(5): 679-692
- Love, E., Lim, J., & Bednar, M. (2017). The face of the firm: The influence of CEOs on corporate reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4): 1462-1481.
Recent Publication Outlets
- Academy of Management Annals
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Perspectives
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Journal of Business Ethics
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Strategic Management Journal
- Strategy Science
Faculty Editorial Boards
- Academy of Management Discoveries
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Perspectives
- Academy of Management Review
- Journal of Organizational Design
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Organization Science
- Research in Organizational Behavior
- Strategic Management Journal
- Strategic Organization
- Social Cognition
Recent Faculty Awards & Leadership Positions
- OMT Distinguished Scholar Award, Academy of Management, 2023
- Director of Illinois Strategic Organization Initiative (ISOI), Gies College of Business
- Named one of the top 50 undergraduate professors by Poets and Quants, 2021
- Academic Director of Experiential Learning, Gies College of Business
Hear from PhD students and alumni
"The thing I most enjoy about the PhD program at Gies is working with excellent faculty. They have afforded me the freedom to explore topics I find interesting while offering insightful feedback and support to develop ideas into successful research projects."
Michelle Checketts, Current PhD Student
"The Business Administration PhD program at Gies deeply shaped my academic tastes, fundamentally transformed my way of thinking, and offered me a complete toolkit to become an independent researcher. The faculty members treat students as future colleagues and would never hesitate to provide any kind of support."
Ying Li, PhD ’22
Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III
de Madrid / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology