Introduction

Jennifer Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. During the 2001-02 year she was the Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Haas School faculty in 1993 she was on the faculty of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University from 1987 to 1993. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Chatman’s research, executive development, and consulting work focus on the business advantages of leveraging organizational culture and leading change. She has worked with a variety of organizations including Advantage Sales & Marketing, ALZA, Arthur Andersen, Case Inc., California Public Utilities Commission, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, The Coca-Cola Company, Fannie Mae, Fireman’s Fund, Franklin Templeton, Freddie Mac, Gallo Winery, Genentech, Guidant, The Institute for Management Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, The Medical Group Management Association, Marimba, New York Life, Pacific Gas and Electric, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, Sandia Labs, San Francisco Academy, The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG/Kaiser-Permanente), U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Treasury, and the University of California’s Business and Administrative Services Division. She teaches a variety of executive and MBA courses focusing on leveraging culture, leadership, effective decision-making and conflict resolution.

Professor Chatman’s research has been highlighted in Business Week, Fortune, Inc., , the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times. She has written articles that have been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology. She is a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and California Management Review. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Behavior, the Society for Organizational Behavior.She is a Director on the Board of Simpson Manufacturing, and serves as an advisory board member to BrassRing, Thinkshed Inc., the Trium Group, Unicru, and Ashesi University in Ghana, Africa.

Professor Chatman won the Outstanding Paper based on a Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management in 1989, and the Best Paper of the Year Award from the Academy of Management’s Organization and Management Theory Division in 1991. She was honored as the 1993 Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management, won the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Impact Award in 1997, was named the L.L. Cummings Scholar by the Academy of Management in 1998, and won the Accenture Award for the Best Paper of the Year in the California Management Review in 2004. She has also been nominated for numerous teaching awards at Haas and Kellogg.

Education

BA, Psychology, UC Berkeley
PhD, Business Administration, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Positions Held

At Haas since 1991

2001 – present, Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management
2001 – 2004, Director, Haas School of Business PhD Program
2001 – 2002, Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School
1997 – 2000, Harold Furst Professor in Management Philosophy and Values, ；

Haas School of Business

1993 – 2001, Assistant and Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
1987 – 1993, Assistant and Associate Professor of Organization Behavior, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
1991 – 1992, Visiting Associate Professor and Research Psychologist, Institute of Personality and Social Research and Visiting Professor, Haas School of Business

External Service and Assignments

Boards: Simpson Manufacturing (Director), Ashesi University, Brassring, Center for the Development of Peace and Well Being, UC Berkeley
Consulting: Advantage Sales & Marketing, ALZA, Boise-Cascade, Chiron, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, ConocoPhillips, Fannie Mae, First Data, Franklin Templeton, Freddie Mac, Gallo Winery, Genentech, Intel, Kaiser-Permanente, Microsoft, New York Life, PG&E, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, Sandia National Laboratories, the US Postal Service, and the US Treasury
Editorial Board: Academy of Management Review, California Management Review

Current Research and Interests

Organizational culture and post merger integration
Managing diverse professionals
Managing teams and cooperation

Selected Papers and Publications

“Congruence versus person-situation interactions,” with Wong, E., & Joyce, C. (forthcoming). To appear in, Smith, B, & Klein, K., A Festschrift to Benjamin Schneider.
“The effects of inter-organizational competition on individual commitment: A cross-level investigation,” with Spataro, S. (forthcoming). In, C. Bartel, S. Blader, & A. Wrzesniewski, (Eds.), Identity and the modern organization, Lawrence Erlbaum.
“Getting people to cooperate: Understanding relational demography-based variations in people’s responsiveness to organizational inducements,” with Spataro, S. Academy of Management Journal 48, no. 2 (2005): 321-331.
“Developing a human capital strategy at Cisco Systems,” with O’Reilly, C., & Chang, V. California Management Review 47, no. 2 (2005): 137-167.
“Full-Cycle Organizational Research,” with F. Flynn. Organization Science (forthcoming).
“Profile Comparison Methods for Assessing Person-Situation Fit,” with D. Caldwell and C. O’Reilly (forthcoming), Perspectives on Organizational Fit, C. Ostroff and T. Judge (eds.), Erlbaum, New Jersey.
“Asymmetric Reactions to Work Group Sex Diversity Among Men and Women,” with C. O’Reilly. Academy of Management Journal 447, no. 2 (2004): 193-208.
“Leading by Leveraging Culture,” with S. Cha. California Management Review 45, no. 4 (2003): 20-34.
“Intrinsic and Extrinsic Work Orientations as Moderators of the Effect of Annual Income on Subjective Well-being,” with A. Malka. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 29, no. 6 (2003): 737-746.

Teaching

Core Organizational Behavior, BA 205
Leading Change and Leveraging Culture, BA 259 and E259
Micro Organizational Behavior, BA 254

Executive Development Courses

Leading Change and Leveraging Culture
Berkeley Executive Program
Stanford AEA Executive Program
Institute of Management Studies
Custom courses for Cisco’s Business Leadership Program, Qualcomm, and Kaiser Permanente

Honors and Awards

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program, 2007
2005 “Most Influential Paper Award,” 1997-2000, Academy of Management , Conflict Management Division for “Being different yet feeling similar: The influence of demographic composition and organizational culture on work processes and outcomes” published in Admin. Science Quarterly, 1998,43 (4): 749-780 (with J. Polzer, S. Barsade , & M. Neale).
Accenture Award, for the article that “made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management” in California Management Review for “Leading by Leveraging Culture” (with S. Cha), 2004
L.L. Cummings Scholar Award, Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division, awarded for “outstanding achievement to one researcher in early mid-career,” 1998
Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Contribution, for “the article that had the most impact on the field of organizational behavior over the past five years,” for Mixing and matching people and organizations: Selection and socialization in public accounting firms, published in ASQ in 1991, 1997
Schwabacher Research Award, Haas School of Business, 1996
Ascendant Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, 1994
Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division for “Assessing the relationship between industry characteristics and organizational culture: How different can you be?” (with K. Jehn), 1991
Outstanding Paper Based on a Dissertation Award, Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division for “Mixing and Matching People and Organizations: Selection and Socialization in Public Accounting Firms,” 1989