Edgar Schein

Edgar H. Schein (born 1928), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. He is generally credited with inventing the term corporate culture.

Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures; artifacts and behaviours, espoused values, and assumptions.

Schein has written on the issues surrounding coercive persuasion, comparing and contrasting brainwashing as a use for "goals that we deplore and goals that we accept."

Education
Ph.D., social psychology, Harvard University, 1952
Master's Degree, Psychology, Stanford University, 1949
University of Chicago


Awards, honors
Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award in Workplace Learning and Performance of the American Society of Training and Development, February 3, 2000
Everett Cherington Hughes Award for Career Scholarship, Careers Division of the Academy of Management, August 8, 2000
Marion Gislason Award for Leadership in Executive Development, Boston University School of Management Executive Development Roundtable, December 11, 2002
Professional
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Fellow, Academy of Management
Board Member
Advisory Board, Institute for Nuclear Power Operations
Board Member, Massachusetts Audubon Society
Board Member, Boston Lyric Opera