Management and Organizations (M&O)

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Welcome

The M&O Area develops leaders who make a difference in organizations, teams, and communities.  Our courses equip students with essential skills, knowledge, and capabilities to excel as leaders in any specialty area, including finance, marketing, accounting, or operations management.  M&O is recognized as among the best departments in the world in developing leaders who can serve as high performing managers, change agents, consultants, or entrepreneurs.

M&O Strategy Statement

Open Positions for Assistant Professor beginning September 2009

Our courses (both MBA and undergraduate) are designed to develop leadership capabilities and skills in five major areas:  (Click here for MBA M&O Course Offerings 2007-2009)

Leading Change

Business Leadership in Changing Times (611, 1.5 cr)
Navigating Change (603, 1.5 cr)
Managing Change (314, 3 cr)
Strategic Management of Knowledge (470, 3 cr)

Leading through Relationships

Bargaining and Influence Skills (512, 2.25 cr)
Managing Professional Relationships (615, 1.5 cr)
Interpersonal Dynamics in Management (561, 3 cr)

Managing Professional Relationships (324, 3 cr)

Leading Teams

Developing and Managing High Performing Teams (617, 1.5 cr)
Teamwork in Organizations (317, 3 cr)

Leading with Human Capital

Introduction to the Management of Human Capital (315, 3 cr)
Leading and Leveraging Difference (605, 1.5 cr)
Leading Not-For-Profits (672, 3 cr)

General Leadership

Leadership Development: Self-Awareness, Skills, and Strategies (621, 3 cr)
Leadership Coaching Practicum (625, 3 cr)
Authentic Leadership (622, 1.5 cr)
Leading Creativity and Innovation (563, 1.5 cr)

Organizing for Sensemaking and Meaning (700, 3 cr)
Leadership (321, 3 cr)

The M&O faculty is generally considered as one of the very best in the discipline.  It is recognized for cutting-edge research in change management, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, cross-cultural management, managing identity, leadership, networks, organizing, positive organizational scholarship, proactivity, resilience and social movements, to name a few.  It is a highly interdisciplinary faculty with many faculty members holding joint appointments and affiliations with departments across campus, including Psychology, Sociology, Education, Natural Resources, Organizational Studies, and Public Policy.  Faculty members are committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service.  M&O faculty members hold leadership positions in the discipline's professional associations as well as editorial board memberships in its most prestigious scholarly journals.  As a result, the M&O faculty has helped shape the field of management and organizational studies, and it aspires to continue to have significant impact on the future of research and practice.  M&O collaborates actively in research and teaching with four interdisciplinary centers:

• The Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) has the single goal of enhancing the University of Michigan’s strength as a world center for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on organizations. ICOS seeks to enrich the intellectual environment of Ph.D. students and faculty interested in organization studies by increasing the quality, breadth, depth and usefulness of organizational research.

• The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship  focuses on research and teaching that enables the best of the human condition for individuals, groups, and organizations.  CPOS sponsors research and teaching on extraordinarily successful performance, thriving outcomes, and positive processes that can be applied in individuals, groups, and organizations.

• The Nonprofit and Public Management Center  is a collaboration of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, School of Public Policy and School of Social Work. The growing importance of the nonprofit sector in the economy and in society, increased blurring of boundaries between business and the nonprofit sector and the increased use of public/private partnerships to accomplish social goals means that leaders of the future must know more about the nonprofit and public sectors than in the past. The Center provides a forum for professional students, faculty and researchers who seek to understand the distinctive contributions of nonprofit and public organizations.

• The Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise creates and disseminates leading-edge knowledge in the area of global sustainable enterprise.  This field explores how organizations throughout the world can achieve long-term success through the harmonization of economic, environmental, and social interests.  Through a 50-50 partnership between the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ross School of Business, the Institute fosters professional education, public outreach, and scientific scholarship supportive of the transition to sustainability.