HOWARD S.
SCHWARTZ
Professor of
Organizational Behavior
School of Business Administration
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401
Office phone:
(248) 370-2122
Home phone: (248) 481-7011
Electronic Mail: Schwartz@Oakland.edu
URL: http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/Schwartz
Education
Cornell University, New York State
School of Industrial and Labor Relations (1972-1977; Ph.D. January 1980)
Major: Organizational Behavior Minors: Sociology and Social Psychology
University of California, San Diego
(1965-1971)
Major: Philosophy (M.A. December 1969)
University of Pittsburgh (1964-1965)
Major: Philosophy
Antioch College (1958-1965)
Major: Philosophy (A.B. June 1965)
Bronx High School of Science
Teaching Experience
Oakland University, 1977-present
Engineering Management Program,
Oakland University - Technical University of Vienna (Austria), 1996-2004.
Institute for Enterprise Management
and Engineering, Pristina, Kosovo, 2004.
State University of New York,
Binghamton, School of Management, Visiting Lecturer, Fall 1976
University of California, San Diego,
Teaching Assistant in the Humanities program, 1966-1970
Industrial Experience
Faculty internship, Pilot Plant
Operations, Chrysler Technology Center, Auburn Hills, Michigan. Summer 1996.
Editorial
Activity
Guest editor (with Marianna Fotaki and Susan Long) Organization
Studies Special Issue On: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Organizations:
What Can Psychoanalysis Offer Organizations Today?'
Publications
Books
Society against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational
Self-Destruction. London: Karnac, October, 2010
The Revolt of the Primitive: An
Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness and Primitive Feminism. Paperback edition, with a new introduction,
Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, September 2003. Hardcover edition,
Westport, CT: Praeger, May 2001.
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.
New York: New York University Press, 1990. Paperback edition, 1993.
Articles, Chapters
Narcissism Project and Corporate
Decay: the Case of General Motors, Republication in The Psychoanalytic Perspective
on the Turbulent World,
edited by Halina Brunning
and Mario Perini, Karnac, 2010
Political
Correctness as Politics in Political and
Civic Leadership, edited by Richard A. Couto. SAGE Publications, 2010
Antioch
Self-Destructs. Academic Questions.
Summer, 2009. 22(3): 314-326.
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, 12 (3), 2009: 441-474
Diversity in Organizing
Words: A Critical Thesaurus for Social and Organisation
Studies, edited by Yiannis Gabriel, Oxford
University Press, 2008
Religion Against Itself:
The Revolt of the Elite of the United Church of Christ. Praesidium: A Journal of Literate and Literary Analysis. 7 (1), 2007: 1-35
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, London, Blackwell's, 1997. (Second edition, 2004)
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.
Masculinity and the meaning of work: A
response to Manichean feminism, Administration and Society, 27 (2),
1995, 249-274.
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, San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994: 224-243
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 Detroit
Airport, Organization Studies, 14 (2), 1993: 279-281.
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 Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 1991.
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, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1990, 303- 322.
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. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004 (in press).
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 Maslow's hierarchy,
International Journal of Management, 4 (2), 1987, 180-193.
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, Academy of
Management Best Papers Proceedings, American Academy of Management, 1986,
321-325.
The usefulness of myth and the myth of
usefulness: A dilemma for the applied organizational scientist, Journal of
Management, 11 (1), 1985, 31-42.
Maslow and the hierarchical enactment
of organizational reality, Human Relations, 36 (10), 1983, 933-956.
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: Mastering the Art of Irreversible Change, by William Bergquist; Managing in the Postmodern World: America's
Revolution against Exploitation, by David M. Boje
and Robert F. Dennehy. Academy of Management
Review, January 1995, 215-221.
Review of Larry Hirschhorn, The
Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life in Journal of
Management 16 (1), March 1990, 205-6.
Review of Stanley M. Davis, Future
Perfect, in Human Resource Management, 28 (1), Spring, 1989,
145-147.
Review of Abraham K. Korman, The Outsiders: Jews in Corporate America, in
Academy of Management Review, 14 (3), 1989, 303-305.
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, Chrysler Technology Center, Auburn Hills, Michigan, September
1996.
Presentations
Anti-oedipal Forces in the Sub-prime Mortgage
Debacle. International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Elsinore,
Denmark, June 2010.
Religion against
Itself: Psychodynamics of Some
Television Commercials Produced by the United Church of Christ. International Society for the Psychoanalytic
Study of Organizations. Toledo, Spain. June 2009.
Meaning and Nihilism:
Political Correctness and the Self-Destruction of Antioch College. International Society for the Psychoanalytic
Study of Organizations, Philadelphia, June 2008 and at Critical Management
Studies pre-Academy Workshop, Los Angeles, August, 2008.
Religion against Itself: The Revolt of
the Elite at the United Church of Christ. Center for the Study of
Organizational Change. Columbia, Missouri, October, 2006
Utopian
Psychology and the Expulsion of Objective Truth: CBS News and the Killian Memo
Debacle. Critical Management Studies Conference. Cambridge, England. July, 2005
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, Baltimore, Maryland.
June, 2005
Magic and Organization in the Age of
Hysteria. European Group on Organizational Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July,
2004.
Organization in the Age of Hysteria.
International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, Coesfeld, Germany, June 2004.and at Center for the Study of
Organizational Change. Columbia, Missouri, October, 2005
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. Boston, MA, June, 2003.
Political correctness, the
deconstruction of the patriarch, and the destruction of organizational
knowledge. European Group on Organizational Studies, Barcelona, Spain, July,
2002.
Two forms of organizational decay
International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Paris,
France, June, 2001.
Political correctness and
organizational decay International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of
Organizations. London, England, June, 2000.
Political correctness and
organizational decay. Second Annual Fall Colloquium in Organizational
Psychodynamics, Center for the Study of Organizational Change, University of
Missouri-Columbia, September, 1998.
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, Jerusalem,
Israel, June, 1998.
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, Jerusalem,
Israel, June, 1998.
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. Warsaw, Poland, June, 1997.
Psychological regression in the
Politically Correct university. American Academy of Management, Cincinnati,
Ohio, August, 1996.
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, New York, New York, June, 1996.
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, Cuernavaca, Mexico, December, 1995.
The Sin of the Father International
Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, London, England, July,
1995.
Reconciliation with the father: An
agenda for post-modern management education, American Academy of Management,
Dallas, Texas, August, 1994.
Psychological regression in the
politically correct university, Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism, Calgary, Canada, July, 1994
Masculinity and the meaning of work: A
response to Manichean feminism, International Society for the Psychoanalytic
Study of Organizations, Chicago, June, 1994.
Some psychodynamic aspects of
political correctness, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of
Organizations, Chicago, June, 1994.
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, New York, June, 1992.
Male sexuality and the emotional basis
of work, at the Public Administration Theory Network, Chicago, Illinois, April,
1992.
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 American Academy of Management, Miami, Florida,
1991.
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, Boston, May 1991.
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
American Academy of Management, San Francisco, August 1990.
Narcissistic process and corporate
decay: The case of General Motors, at the Society for Business Ethics, San
Francisco, August 1990.
Alcoholics Anonymous and recovery from
Narcissistic decay processes in organizations, at the Thirteenth Annual
Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology,
Washington D.C., July, 1990.
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 Washington University, Washington D.C., March 16-18, 1990.
A theory of organizational decay, a
seminar at the Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,
November 30, 1989.
Mythological dimensions of the
American work organization, at the Meadowbrook Institute for Ecumenical and
Technological Culture, Rochester, Michigan, November 3, 1989.
The role of supervision in
'self-managing' workgroups: A psychodynamic perspective, American Academy of
Management, Washington, D.C., August, 1989.
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, American Academy of Management, Anaheim, California,
August 1988.
The management of illusion: Some
practical consequences, at the meetings of the International Society of
Political Psychology, Meadowlands, New Jersey, July 1988.
Psychodynamic aspects of
organizational culture, a contribution to a panel on organizational culture in
the classroom, Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Los Angeles, June
1988.
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 American
Academy of Management, New Orleans, July 1987.
Case history of a snakepit:
The merger of GM and EDS, at the meetings of the International Society of
Political Psychology, San Francisco, July 1987.
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, Massachusetts, May 1987.
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, New York City, November 1986.
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
American Academy of Management meetings, Chicago, August 1986.
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, Toronto, June 1984.
Psychology of work at the
public-esteem stage of Maslow's hierarchy: Psychodynamics of the organizational
personality, at the First Cornell Symposium on Psychodynamic Approaches to
Organizational Behavior and Experience, October 1983.
Job involvement, job enrichment and
obsession compulsion, at the meetings of the Eastern Academy of Management,
Buffalo, New York, 1980.
Professional Affiliations
International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (founding member)
National Association of Scholars