Organizational Culture and Leadership, Fourth Edition

The Author

Ed Schein was educated at the University of Chicago, at Stanford University where he received a master's 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 ...