HOWARD S. SCHWARTZ
Professor of Organizational
Office phone: (248) 370-2122
Home phone: (248) 684-5345
Electronic Mail: Schwartz@Oakland.edu
URL: http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/Schwartz
Education
Major: Organizational Behavior Minors: Sociology and Social Psychology
Major: Philosophy (M.A. December 1969)
Major: Philosophy
Major: Philosophy (A.B. June 1965)
Teaching Experience
Engineering Management Program,
Institute for
Industrial Experience
Faculty internship, Pilot Plant Operations,
Publications
Books
The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political
Correctness and Primitive Feminism. Paperback edition, with a new
introduction,
Organizations in Depth by Yiannis Gabriel with Larry Hirschhorn, Marion McCollom Hampton, Howard S. Schwartz, and Glenn Swogger, Jr. London: Sage, 1999.
Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the
Organization Ideal.
Articles, Chapters
Organization and meaning: A multilevel psychoanalytic Treatment of the
Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times,
with Larry Hirschhorn. International
Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior 11 (1), 2008 (in press)
Organization in the Age of
Hysteria, European Journal of
Psychoanalysis, 20 (1),
2005: 41-71.
Narcissistic Leadership in Encyclopedia of Leadership, edited by James McGregor Burns, George R. Goethals, and Georgia Sorenson. Berkshire Publishing Group/ Sage, 2004.
Political Correctness and Organizational Nihilism, Human Relations, 55 (11), 2002: 1275-1294.
Individual and Organization, (with Yiannis Gabriel) in Organizations in Depth by Yiannis Gabriel with Larry Hirschhorn, Marion McCollom Hampton, Howard S. Schwartz, And Glenn Swogger, Jr. London: Sage, 1999: 58-80.
Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Organization, (with Yiannis Gabriel) in Organizations in Depth by Yiannis Gabriel with Larry Hirschhorn, Marion McCollom Hampton, Howard S. Schwartz, And Glenn Swogger, Jr. London: Sage, 1999: 1-12.
Organizations, from Concepts to Constructs: Psychoanalytic Theories of Character and the Meaning of Organization, with Yiannis Gabriel. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 21 (2), 1999: 176-192.
Psychodynamics of Political Correctness, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 33 (2) 1997: 132-148.
Response to Professor Latting, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 33 (2), 1997: 158-9.
Organizational Decay, in Dictionary of Business Ethics, edited by
Edward Freeman and Patricia Werhane,
The Sin of the Father: Reflections on the Roles of the Corporation Man, the Suburban Housewife, their Son and their Daughter in the Deconstruction of the Patriarch Human Relations, 49 (8), 1996: 1013-1040.
Response to criticism, Administration and Society, 27 (2), 1995, 299-304.
Acknowledging the dark side of organizational life, in In Search of Meaning: Managing for the Health of
Our Organizations, Our Communities, and the Natural World, edited by
Thierry C. Pauchant,
Narcissistic emotion and university administration: An analysis of 'Political Correctness,' in Emotion in Organizations, edited by Stephen Fineman, Sage, 1993: 190-215.
Deconstructing my car at the
Narcissism project and corporate decay: The case of General Motors, Business Ethics Quarterly, 1 (3), 1991, 249-268.
Narcissism project and corporate decay: The case of General Motors, in
Richard M. Coughlin (ed.) Socio-Economic Perspectives 1990
Organizational disaster and organizational decay: The case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Industrial Crisis Quarterly, 3 (4), 1989, 1-16.
The symbol of the space shuttle and the degeneration of
the American dream, Journal of Organizational Change Management,
1 (2), 1988, 5-20. [This article has been republished in Symbols and
Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape, edited by Pasquale Gagliardi,
Antisocial actions of committed organizational participants: An
existential psychoanalytic perspective, Organization Studies, 8 (4),
1987, 327-340. (Reprinted in Organizational Identity: A
Reader, edited by Mary Jo Hatch and Majken
Schultz.
On the psychodynamics of organizational disaster: The case of the space shuttle Challenger, The Columbia Journal of World Business, XXII (1), Spring 1987, 59-67.
The clockwork or the snakepit: An essay on the meaning of teaching organizational behavior, Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, XI (2), 1987, 19-26.
On the psychodynamics of organizational totalitarianism, Journal of Management, 13 (1), 1987, 41-54.[Republished in Psychodynamics of Organizations, edited by Larry Hirschhorn, Philadelphi: Temple University Press, 1993]
Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality revisited: Psychology of work at the
public-esteem stage of
Totalitarianism and cultural engineering (part two), Dragon: The Journal of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, number 7, 1986, 24-48.
Totalitarianism and cultural engineering (part one), Dragon: The Journal of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, number 6, 1986, 78-100.
Immoral actions of organizationally committed individuals: An existential
psychoanalytic perspective,
The usefulness of myth and the myth of usefulness: A dilemma for the applied organizational scientist, Journal of Management, 11 (1), 1985, 31-42.
A theory of deontic work motivation, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 19 (2), 1983, 203-214.
Job involvement as obsession-compulsion, Academy of Management Review, 7 (3), 1982, 429-432.
A cross-cultural investigation of the relative importance of child-rearing and socio-economic antecedents of field-dependence- independence, with Albert N.B. Nedd), The Journal of Psychology, 96, 1977, 63-70.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
The Remembrance of Things Past in Organization Theory, Review of Memory as a Moral Decision, by Steven P. Feldman. Business Ethics Quarterly, 2004.
The Succession of Orthodoxies about Sexual Difference: A Review of Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality, by Kingsley R. Browne. Contemporary Psychology, 49 (3), 2004, 327-329
Grandiose Unhappiness, Review of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, by David Brock. Sexuality and Culture. Spring, 2003: 79-83.
Review of Haridimos Tsoukas, New Thinking in Organizational Behavior, in Management Learning, 1995, 393-4.
Review article, The Postmodern Organization:
Review of Larry Hirschhorn, The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life in Journal of Management 16 (1), March 1990, 205-6.
Review of
Review of Abraham K. Korman, The
Outsiders: Jews in Corporate
Review of Donald A. Schon, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, in Administrative Science Quarterly, 32 (4), 1987, 614-617.
Review of Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller, The Neurotic Organization in Administrative Science Quarterly, 30 (3), 1985, 439-442.
Review of Kenwyn K. Smith, Groups in Conflict: Prisons in Disguise, in Administrative Science Quarterly, 29 (1), 1984, 138- 142.
Tautology in action, review of Richard E. Boyatzis, The Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance, in Contemporary Psychology, 28 (1), 1983, 53-54.
Review essay of Marvin D. Dunnette (Ed.) Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, (with Tove Helland Hammer, John Anderson, Michael Gurdon, Todd Jick, Andre Petit, Robert Stern, and Yoav Vardi), in Administrative Science Quarterly, 22 (1), 1977, 151-170.
Review essay: Psychological assumptions and utopian aspirations -- A critique of Work in America, (with Leopold W. Gruenfeld), in Administrative Science Quarterly, 20 (1), 1975, 126-130.
Unpublished Writings:
The Conflict between Workers at the Pilot Plant and Vehicle Engineering,
prepared for Linda Petro, Manager, Pilot Plant Operations,
Presentations
Utopian Psychology and the
Expulsion of Objective Truth: CBS News and the Killian Memo Debacle. Critical Management Studies Conference.
Hysteria
and Truth in the Politically Correct Organization: The Case of the Burkett Memo
Debacle at CBS News. International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
Magic and Organization in the Age of Hysteria.
European Group on Organizational Studies,
Organization in the Age of Hysteria. International
Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
Too hot to handle and political correctness, contribution to a debate on
the proposition In organizations, some ideas are too
hot to handle. International Society for the Psychoanalytic
Study of Organizations.
Political correctness, the deconstruction of the
patriarch, and the destruction of organizational knowledge. European
Group on Organizational Studies,
Two forms of organizational decay International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.
Political correctness and organizational decay
International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.
Political correctness and organizational decay.
Second Annual Fall Colloquium in Organizational Psychodynamics, Center for the
Study of Organizational Change,
Organizations, from concepts to constructs: Psychoanalytic theories of
character and the meaning of organization. (with
Yiannis Gabriel) International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
The researcher as recovering neurotic (part of a panel on
the psychoanalytic approach to research in organizations). International
Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
The Power of the Virgin: Psychodynamics of sexual politics and the issue of women in combat. Fall Colloquium in Organizational Psychodynamics, Center for the Study of Organizational Change, University of Missouri-Columbia, September, 1997.
The Power of the Virgin, Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism.
Psychological regression in the Politically Correct university.
The Sin of the Father: Reflections on the roles of the corporation man,
the suburban housewife, their son, and their daughter, in the deconstruction of
the patriarch. International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of
Organizations,
The Sin of the Father: Reflections on the roles of the corporation man,
the suburban housewife, their son, and their daughter, in the deconstruction of
the patriarch. Asian- Pacific Researchers on Organization Studies,
The Sin of the Father International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study
of Organizations,
Reconciliation with the father: An agenda for post-modern management
education,
Psychological regression in the politically correct university, Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Calgary, Canada, July, 1994
Some psychodynamic aspects of political correctness, International
Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
Conversation hour with the author of Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay, Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Bucknell University, June, 1993.
Presentation as part of a panel on teaching socio-economics, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York, New York, March 1993.
Male psychology and the emotional basis of work, at the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Lancaster, England, July, 1992.
Comments on Organizational effects of executive
narcissism by Jeffrey Kahn and Mark Unterberg, at the International Society for
the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
Male sexuality and the emotional basis of work, at the
Public Administration Theory Network,
Male sexuality and the emotional basis of work, at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Irvine, California, March, 1992.
Motivation theory and the dark side of organizational life, at the
Organizational decay and the loss of reality at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Some considerations for the postmodernists, at the 8th International Congress of the Standing Conference on Organization Symbolism, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1991.
Male sexuality, work, and organization, at the Members'
Session, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations,
Organizational decay: A problem that affects every area of organizational functioning, American Production and Inventory Control Society, Detroit Chapter, December 1990.
Sources of conflict in the symbolically managed organization: A
psychoanalytic perspective, at the
Narcissistic process and corporate decay: The case of General Motors, at
the Society for Business Ethics,
Alcoholics Anonymous and recovery from Narcissistic decay processes in
organizations, at the Thirteenth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International
Society of Political Psychology,
Addiction and recovery, at the Members' Session of the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, Montreal, Canada, March 1990.
Narcissism project and corporate decay: The case of General Motors, at
the Second Conference on Socio-Economics, George
A theory of organizational decay, a seminar at the
Mythological dimensions of the American work organization, at the
Meadowbrook Institute for Ecumenical and Technological Culture,
The role of supervision in 'self-managing' workgroups: A psychodynamic
perspective,
Totalitarian management and organizational decay: The story of General Motors as told by John Z. De Lorean, invited presentation for the Ninth Colloquium of the European Group on Organizational Studies, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, July, 1989.
Totalitarian management and organizational decay: The case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Fourth International Conference on Organizational Symbolism and Corporate Culture of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, June, 1989.
Totalitarian management and organizational decay, at the Members' Session, Third Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, William Alanson White Institute, New York City, November, 1988.
The symbol of the space shuttle and the degeneration of the American dream, at the American Sociological Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1988.
Negotiations and their discontents, a contribution to a Preprogram panel
titled Taking Stock: Translating What We Know about Conflict and Negotiations
into Managerial Practice, sponsored by the Harvard Program on Negotiation,
The management of illusion: Some practical consequences, at the meetings
of the International Society of Political Psychology, Meadowlands,
Psychodynamic aspects of organizational culture, a
contribution to a panel on organizational culture in the classroom,
Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference,
The symbolism of the space shuttle and the degeneration of the American dream, at the Members' Session, Second Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, New York City, October 1987.
Symbolic management and totalitarianism: Implications for organizational
practice, at the
Case history of a snakepit: The merger of GM and
EDS, at the meetings of the International Society of Political Psychology,
The symbolism of the space shuttle and the deconstruction of the American dream, at the Third International Conference on Organizational Symbolism and Corporate Culture, Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Milan, Italy, June 1987.
The dialectic of the clockwork and the snakepit,
at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Waltham,
The myth of the effective organization: An existential psychoanalytic
perspective (On the psychodynamics of organizational disasters). at the Symposium on Organizational Effectiveness, First
Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of
Organizations,
On the psychodynamics of organizational disasters: The case of the space shuttle Challenger at the Conference on Industrial Crisis Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University, New York City, September 1986.
Immoral actions of organizationally committed individuals: An existential
psychoanalytic perspective, at the
Cultural engineering and organizational totalitarianism: A psychodynamic perspective, at Cultural Engineering -- the Evidence For and Against, the 1986 Annual Conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Montreal, Canada, June 1986.
The clockwork or the snakepit: An essay on the meaning of teaching Organizational Behavior, at the American Society for Public Administration meetings, Anaheim, California, April 1986.
Totalitarianism and organizational enculturation, at the Conference on Critical Approaches to Organizational Theory, Baruch College of the City University of New York, New York City, September 1985.
Recent research on organizational culture and the status of action research, (with Daniel N. Braunstein) at the Meadowbrook Symposium on Collaborative Action Research in Education, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, January 1985.
Two psychologies of work, at the International Society
of Political Psychology meetings,
Psychology of work at the public-esteem stage of
Job involvement, job enrichment and obsession
compulsion, at the meetings of the Eastern Academy of Management,
Professional Affiliations
International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (founding member)