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Paul S. Goodman

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(Deceased January 24, 2012) Richard M. Cyert Professorship; Professor of Organizational Psychology; Director, Institute for Strategic Development; Director, Center for the Management of Technology

Education:
  • Trinity College - B.A. - 1959
  • Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College - M.B.A. - 1961
  • Cornell University - Ph.D. - 1966
Areas of Expertise:
  • Organizational Behavior and Theory
Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Work groups, knowledge sharing, technology and organizational change. Current research focuses on new forms of groups, organizational linkages, and knowledge sharing in international environments. Writings appear in many professional journals and books. Director of the Institute for Strategic Development, which develops strategic partnerships in Mexico, Latin America, India and South Africa.
Website and/or personal homepage:
http://wpweb2k.tepper.cmu.edu/rlang/goodman/index.html

Published Papers: 
  • Methodological Issues in Measuring Group Learning
    Small Group Research, Forthcoming.
    (with: L. Dabbish)

  • Contribution Behaviors in Distributed Environments
    MIS Quarterly 32, 2008; 23-42.
    (with: F. Olivera, S. Tan)

  • Organizational Learning Contracts in Management Education
    Academy of Management Learning & Education 7, 2008; 521-534.
    (with: Gerard Beenen)

  • Group Learning
    Academy of Management Review 32(4), 2007; 1041-1059.
    (with: Jeanne M. Wilson, Matthew Cronin)

  • Social Comparison Processes in an Organizational Context: New Directions
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 102, 2007; 109-125.
    (with: Emily Haisley)

  • Filmmaking and Research: An Intersection
    Journal of Management Inquiry 13, 2004; 324-335.

  • Latent Errors and Adverse Organizational Consequences: A Conceptualization
    Journal of Organizational Behavior 24, 2003; 1-22.
    (with: Rangaraj Ramanujam)

Working Papers: 
  • The Role Of Temporal Structures in Facilitating Coordination in Ambiguous Conditions: A Case Study of Interactive Media Development Teams
    March, 2010.
    (with: Laurie Weingart, K. Goh, Gergana Todorova)

Publications: 
  • Organizational Learning Contracts: New and Traditional Colleges, Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, (2011).

  • Technology Enhanced Learning: Opportunities for Change, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc., (2001).

  • "Creating Organizational and Technological Change"
    in Paul S. Goodman (ed.) Technology Enhanced Learning: Opportunities for Change, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc., (2001).

  • Missing Organizational Linkages: Tools for Cross-Level Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, (2000).

Awards:
  • Doherty Award, Educational Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University - 2009
  • Fellow, Academy of Management - 2002
  • Educator of the Year, Academy of Management - 2001
  • Fellow, American Psychological Society - 1993
  • Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology - 1992
Boards:
  • NSF, 1993-1994
  • NRC, 1991-1997
  • School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1988-1994
Other Professional Activities:
  • Global activities: Help build educational networks in Latin America and India; design new universities in Brazil and Singapore; create strategic educational programs in Mexico, South Africa, Singapore, etc. with governments and universities.
  • Film Production: 19 educational videos used in universities nationally and internationally (See http://workvideos.com/)
  • 2 documentaries - "The Dabbawallas" and "Escola de Samba" are currently on PBS stations nationally
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