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Ed Schein was educated at the University of
Chicago, at Stanford University where he received
a Masters Degree in Psychology in 1949, and
at Harvard University where he received his
Ph.D. in social psychology in 1952. He was
Chief of the Social Psychology Section of
the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
while serving in the U.S. Army as Captain
from 1952 to 1956. He joined MIT's Sloan School
of Management in 1956 and was made a Professor
of Organizational Psychology and Management
in 1964.
From 1968 to 1971 Schein was the Undergraduate
Planning Professor for MIT, and in 1972
he became the Chairman of the Organization
Studies Group of the MIT Sloan School, a
position he held until 1982. He was honored
in 1978 when he was named the Sloan Fellows
Professor of Management, a Chair he held
until 1990. At the present he is Sloan Fellows
Professor of Management Emeritus and continues
at the Sloan School half-time as a Senior
Lecturer.
Schein has been a prolific researcher,
writer, teacher and consultant. Besides
his numerous articles in professional journals
he has authored fourteen books including
Organizational Psychology (3d edit., 1980),
Career Dynamics (1978), Organizational Culture
and Leadership (1985, 1992), and Process
Consultation Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (1969, 1987,
1988), Process Consultation Revisited (1999),
and The Corporate Culture Survival Guide
(1999). He is Co-editor with the late Richard
Beckhard of the Addison Wesley Series on
Organization Development which has published
over 30 titles since its inception in 1969.
His consultation focuses on organizational
culture, organization development, process
consultation, and career dynamics, and among
his past and current clients are major corporations
both in the U.S. and overseas such as Digital
Equipment Corporation, Ciba-Geigy, Apple,
Citibank, General Foods, Procter & Gamble,
ICI, Saab Combitech, Steinbergs, Alcoa,
Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Exxon, Shell,
AMOCO, Con Edison, and the Economic Development
Board of Singapore.
Schein has received many honors and awards
for his writing and is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and the Academy
of Management. He is married, has three
children, and seven grandchildren. He and
his wife Mary live in Cambridge, Mass. |
