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Arnold Sherwood Tannenbaum (* 1925 ) was an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts , and research scientist at the Survey Research Center at the Institute for until his retirement on December 31, 1987 Social Research of the University of Michigan .

Life

Tannenbaum served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946 . He had the opportunity in 1945 to obtain a first degree as a Bachelor of Engineering (BSEE, electrical engineering ) from Purdue University . He came into contact with the Center for Group Dynamics when it moved from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Syracuse University . The center dealt with organizational behavior and was shaped by Kurt Lewin . In Syracuse he studied psychology and sociology and obtained his Ph.D. in 1954. His PhD supervisor was Floyd Allport . Tannenbaum stayed with the Center for Group Dynamics when it moved to the University of Michigan in 1949 .

He was appointed Assistant Program Director in 1958, Program Director in 1958 and Research Scientist in 1973. His university career ran parallel to this, where he received a junior professorship in 1963 and a full professorship from 1967 . Tannenbaum lived in Michigan all his life and retired in 1987.

In 1976 the University of Gothenburg honored Tannenbaum with an honorary doctorate. Furthermore, Tannenbaum was awarded a Fellowship of the Fulbright Program , a Maxwell Fellowship in Social and Political Psychology and a Fellowship of the German Marshall Fund .

research

During his career, Tannenbaum pursued various research approaches. Two basic patterns emerged that characterize his work. On the one hand, Tannenbaum dealt with the fundamentals of power and control in formal organizations, the consequences for power and control if one changed behavior. Tannenbaum's basic thesis, published in 1966, was that hierarchies have a corrosive effect and generate opposition to the leaders. According to this thesis, management had to give up power in order to keep the rudder in hand. Tannenbaum was able to empirically examine his theses in the local branches of trade unions, where he found that both management and ordinary members could exercise more control than in higher levels of the trade union organization. This observation, which at first glance seems paradoxical, can be explained if one does not regard power as a fixed quantity in which one loses when the other gains, but rather that power can increasingly occur in organizations through participation. To evaluate his results, Tannenbaum used control graphs that are still used in the social sciences today.

The second research focus concerns hierarchies and how different forms of hierarchies affect the members of an organization, as well as their influence on the performance of the organizations. Tannenbaum dealt remarkably early on with cultural differences in hierarchies and means of control. In order to carry out this research, Tannenbaum made use of an extensive network of researchers in several countries. The resulting numerous publications are now regarded as classics of collaborative research for the study of formal organizations.

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Books

(1958) Participation in union locals , with Robert Louis Kahn
(1966) Social Psychology of the Work Organization
(1968) Control in Organizations (Management)
(1974) Heirarchy (i.e.) In Organizations (Management)
(1981) Employee Ownership , with Michael Conte
(1986) Authority and reward in organizations ; with Tamás Rozgonyi, European Coordination Center for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, University of Michigan. Survey Research Center

chapter

Control Theory (Using the Control Graph) ; in John B. Miner (2015) Organizational Behavior 2

items

(1956) Control Structure and Union Functions ; American Journal of Sociology; Vol. 61, No. 6 (May, 1956), pp. 536-545
(1956) The Concept of Organizational Control ; Journal of Social Issues, 12 (2); Page 50–60
(1957) A Study of Organizational Effectiveness ; American Sociological Review 22 (5): 534-540. (with Basil S. Georgopoulos)
(1961) The adaptability of older workers to technological change; performance of older and younger workers in industrial retraining courses ([Ann Arbor] Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1961), by Gary G. Grenholm, Arnold Sherwood Tannenbaum, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, and University of Michigan Survey Research Center

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Arnold Tannenbaum. Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Research Scientist Emeritus, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research. University of Michigan, accessed September 3, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Derek S. Pugh , David J. Hickson : Great Writers on Organizations: The Third Omnibus Edition . 3. Edition. CRC Press, London and New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-317-12481-8 , pp. 211-214 .
^ ^A ^b ^c John B. Miner: Organizational Behavior 2: Essential Theories of Process and Structure . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-46355-9 , pp. 129 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tannenbaum, Arnold Sherwood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tannebaum, Arnold; Tannenbaum, AS; Tannenbaum, Arnold S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1925

[UoM-01-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Arnold Tannenbaum. Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Research Scientist Emeritus, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research. University of Michigan, accessed September 3, 2018 .

[PughHickson2016-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Derek S. Pugh , David J. Hickson : Great Writers on Organizations: The Third Omnibus Edition . 3. Edition. CRC Press, London and New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-317-12481-8 , pp. 211-214 .

[Miner2015-3] A ^b ^c John B. Miner: Organizational Behavior 2: Essential Theories of Process and Structure . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-46355-9 , pp. 129 .