Organization Change - International Student Edition: Theory and Practice

About W. Warner Burke

   Originally educated as a social-organizational psychologist (Ph.D. University of TexaAustin) Dr. Burke is currently engaged in teaching research and consulting.   He teaches leadership organizational dynamics and theory and organization change and consultation.   His research focuses on multirater feedback leadership learning agility and organization change.      Dr. Burkes consulting experience has been with a variety of organizations in business-industry education government religious medical systems and professional services firms including British Airways SmithKline Beecham National Westminster Bancorp British Broadcasting Corporation Business Consultants Inc. of Japan (since 1972); Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Dime Savings Bank and Miller and Chevalier law firm. He formerly served as senior advisor to the strategy and organization change practice of IBM Global Business Services.      Prior to his move to Teachers College Dr. Burke was professor of management and chair of the Department of Management at Clark University.  Prior to the Clark assignment Dr. Burke was an independent consultant from 1974 to 1976.  For eight years he was a full-time professional with the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science where he was director for Executive Programs and director of the Center for Systems Development (1966-1974).  For eight years beginning in 1967 he also served as the executive director of the Organization Development Network      Dr. Burke is a Fellow of the Academy of Management the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management and the American Society for Training and Development and he is a Diplomate in organizational and business consulting psychology American Board of Professional Psychology. From 1979 to 1985 he was editor of Organizational Dynamics and from 1986 to 1989 he started and served as editor of the Academy of Management Executive. Dr. Burke is the author of more than 150 articles and book chapters on organization development training change and organizational psychology and conference planning; and author co-author editor and co-editor of 19 books.  His latest book published by Sage is Organization Change: Theory and Practice 4th Ed.  He designed and served as faculty director of the Columbia Business School executive program Leading and Managing People from 1988 to 1995. In 1989 he received the Public Service Medal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1990 the Distinguished Contribution to Human Resource Development Award and in 1993 the Organization Development Professional Practice Area Award for Excellence - The Lippitt Memorial Award - from the American Society for Training and Development. Dr. Burke has also served on three committees for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (1994-2012). August of 2003 he received the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management and in October of 2003 he was the recipient of the Organization Development Networks Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 he was appointed Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence for the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management and in 2005 and 2010 he received the Linkage Corporations Lifetime Achievement Award for leadership in the field of organization development. Also in 2005 he became the co-director of the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program an MA in organizational psychology joint program between Teachers College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Also in collaboration with the U.S. Army War College Dr. Burke is responsible for a one-year fellowship program for U.S. Army Colonels. In April 2007 he received the Distinguised Lifetime Contribution to Practice Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and in 2011 the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Best Practice Institute. His most recent book is the 3rd edition of Organization Development: A Process of Learning and Changing (2015; Pearson Education) now co-authored with Debra Noumair.  On May 19 2016 Dr.Burke was given The Outstanding Civilian Service Medal Award from the Department of the Army for his work with the United States Military Academy at West Point.