Organizational Behavior (Management)

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah offers a program of study leading to a Ph.D. through the Department of Management with a specialization in Organizational Behavior. The Organizational Behavior specialization focuses on the human behavior of organizational life. This focus translates into a broad array of concerns, including ethical decision-making in organizations, workplace discrimination and injustice, negotiations, individual and group decision-making, intra-group conflict, mindfulness, stigma, diversity, workplace relationships, and identity processes within organizations.

Management Ph.D. Coordinator: Glen Kreiner

Students also select at least one supporting allied field that must be outside the Management Department, typically psychology. The Ph.D. program in Management is flexible, and students’ programs are designed according to their experience, interests, and career goals.

The Department of Management Ph.D. program is designed to provide opportunities for individuals to develop excellence in their primary and supporting areas of study and in quantitative and/or qualitative research methodologies through a set of seminars. The seminars are designed to provide the required training and education necessary to contribute to published literature in the field.

Doctoral students in the Organizational Behavior department work closely with faculty members on research and teaching assignments throughout their program. Students will have an opportunity to collaborate with faculty as well as to develop research projects of their own. All students will have the opportunity to teach at least one course in their major area of study.

Each student’s program of study is tailored to the student’s needs and interests. The courses listed below are representative of those taken by recent students interested in researching organizational behavior. A complete program of study includes subsets of the courses listed in each category sufficient to meet the minimum required semester hours. The actual nature and timing of course offerings vary.

A minimum of 15 major field, 9 allied field, and 15 research competency credit hours are required. Three credit hours in research must be a Philosophy of Science course. Students are also required to take an effective teaching course. Once students have completed all the requirements to advance to candidacy, they are required to complete a minimum of 14 hours of thesis research.

First-time tenure track job placements of doctoral students in Organizational Behavior in the last ten years include Syracuse University, University of Kansas, University of Massachusetts Boston, Rochester Institute of Technology, Northern State University, NYU Shanghai, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Southern Methodist University, Utah State University, McNeese State University, West Texas A&M University, Cornell University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and the University of North Carolina.

To learn more about courses, read the course descriptions in the General Catalog and Class Schedules.