Thomas G. Cummings
Director, Leadership Institute
Professor and Chair of Management and Organization
USC Marshall School of Business
Contact at: (213) 740-0733, (310) 373-1422 or tcummings@marshall.usc.edu
Expertise:
- self-managing work teams
- improving productivity
- employee involvement programs
- organizational change
- organizational learning
- organizational design
- team development and human resource management
- strategic change management
- Editor of Systems Theory for Organization Development (1980)
Co-author of Management of Work: A Socio-technical Systems Approach (1977); Improving Productivity and the Quality of Work Life (1977); Job Satisfaction and Productivity (1977); Industrial Relations: A Multidimensional View (1985); Self-Designing Organizations (1989); and Organization Development and Change, 6th ed. (1997)
Co-editor of Producing Knowledge for Theory and Practice (1985); Industrial Relations: Reports from the Firing Line (1988); Large- Scale Organizational Change (1989); Service Management Effectiveness (1990); and Cases in Organization Development (1991)
A consultant to productivity programs
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Biographical information can be found at:
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/directory/tcummings
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