Robert Tannenbaum

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Robert Tannenbaum (born 1915 in Cripple Creek ; † March 15, 2003 in Carmel-by-the-Sea , California ) was an American professor of management at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles . After his early retirement from university teaching in 1977, Tannenbaum worked for the rest of his career as a management consultant and business consultant.

Tannenbaum became known for one of the most influential works on situational leadership behavior through an article published together with Warren H. Schmidt in 1958 in the Harvard Business Review (reprinted 1973), in which they presented the leadership continuum, one of the most influential studies of leadership and leadership behavior to date.

Live and act

Born in Cripple Creek to Henry Tannenbaum and Nettie Porges, Robert grew up in Southern California with his sister. In 1935, Tannenbaum graduated from Santa Anna Junior College with an AA. He moved to the University of Chicago , where he graduated with an AB ( Bachelor ) in 1937 and a Master of Business Administration in Accounting in 1938 . At the same time, he took his first steps in teaching and taught accounting at Oklahoma A&M College . In 1939 he returned to Chicago to prepare for his doctorate .

In 1942 he joined the US Navy and served as a radar instructor in the Pacific during World War II . Meanwhile he rose to the rank of lieutenant of the. In 1946 he returned to Chicago and continued his studies. In 1948 he received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago .

Immediately after graduation, he was hired by Neil H. Jacoby , a former professor at Chicago University and then Dean of UCLA College of Business Administration, later known as the Graduate School of Management and now known as the Anderson School . Tannenbaum taught here until he retired prematurely in 1977.

Based on his belief in people and their abilities, Tannenbaum must be seen as a forerunner of the modern view of people as the capital of the organization ( human capital ). From 1950 to the 1970s, Tannenbaum was a major factor in the development of UCLA into one of the leading schools for organizational development and leadership training. His former work with the Western Training Lab and the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science gave the modern theory of small group processes, the sensitivity training ( Sensitivity Training ) and T groups ( T-groups ) essential impulses.

Tannenbaum no longer described organizations as machines with interchangeable human components, but as living communities in which people can grow and develop. He believed that effective leadership was based on reflecting on one's own ideas about the nature of man and on examining these ideas in reality.

His best-known works, “How to Choose a Leadership Pattern” and “Management of Differences” set records for the Harvard Business Review for the number of reprint requests.

His effect as a teacher was confirmed by his second career as a management consultant and business consultant. He helped develop Pepperdine University's Masters Program in Organizational Development , held workshops at the NTL Institute, advised executives and their spouses in his Carmel home, and wrote books and articles.

Honors

The Saybrook University honored tree with a honorary doctorate, he was elected a fellow of the National Training laboratorys and awarded in Oranisationsentwicklungs network. He was also the first to receive the American Society for Training & Development's Lifetime Achievement Award .

Publications

Books

  • Cost under the unfair practices acts
  • Human systems development: new perspectives on people and organizations
  • Industrial human relations: a selected bibliography
  • Leadership and organization: a behavioral science approach , with Irving Weschler and Fred Massarik

items

  • 1958 How to choose a leadership pattern ; with Warren H. Schmidt
  • 1960 Management of Differences ; with Warren H. Schmidt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Phil Little: Obituary: Robert Tannenbaum, Professor Emeritus of The Anderson School at UCLA and Humanist Visionary. March 20, 2003, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Samuel Culbert: In Memoriam Robert Tannenbaum. Professor of Anderson School of Management, Emeritus. In: University of California website. 2003, accessed September 4, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tannenbaum, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tannenbaum, Bob; Tannenbaum, R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American organizational researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Cripple Creek (Colorado) , Colorado , USA
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2003
Place of death Carmel-by-the-Sea , California