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Frank J. Barrett
Professor
Mail Code: GB/Br
Graduate School of Business and Public Policy
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-2328
Email: FBarrett (at) nps.edu
Web: www.nps.navy.mil/gsbpp/
EDUCATION:
PhD - Case Western, 1990
Organizational Behavior
MA - University of Notre Dame, 1977
English with Minor in Music
BS - University of Notre Dame, 1975
Government and International Relations
NPS EXPERIENCE:
  • 2006 - Present: Professor of Management
  • 2004 - 2008: Area Chair of Management Group
  • 1996 - 2006: Associate Professor of Management
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
  • OTHER EXPERIENCE:
  • 2008 – 2010: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School and Harvard Program on Negotiations
  • 2002 – 2003: Boer and Croon Chair of Change Management, TIAS Business School, Tilburg University
  • 1999: Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Economics, Katholieke University of Leuven
  • 1997 – Present: Adjunct Professor, Benedictine University
  • 1989 – 1990: Instructor of Management, Penn State University, Behrend College
  • 1989 – 1990: Senior Researcher, Social Innovations in Global Management, Case Western Reserve University
  • 1988 – 1989: Instructor of Organizational Behavior, Case Western University
  • 1984 – Present: Consultant to various organizations in area of vision planning, team building, strategic planning, organizational restructuring, and conflict management
  • 1983 – 1987: Faculty Assistant, Case Western Reserve University
  • 1977 – 1982: Instructor of English, Cuyahoga Community College
  • 1981 – 1983: Director of Budgetary Analysis, Cuyahoga County
  • 1980: Pianist with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra under direction of Buddy Morrow
  • 1978 – 1979: Budget Analyst, Cuyahoga County
TEACHING INTERESTS:
  • Organizational Change
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Organizational Design
  • Leadership and Complexity
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Innovation
  • Creativity
  • Organizational Change
  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Organizational Discourse
AWARDS:
  • Best Paper Award 2003 – Academy of Management, Division of Organizational Development and Change (co-authored with Mary Jo Hatch)
  • Best Paper Award 1988 – Academy of Management, Division of Organizational Development and Change (co-authored with David Cooperrider)
  • Graduated Cum Laude from Univ. of Notre Dame, 1975
  • Winner of Notre Dame Club of Cleveland Scholarship Award 1972-1975
  • Awarded full fellowship graduate study in English at Univ. Notre Dame
BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:
  • 1993 – Present: Member of Managerial and Organizational Cognition Interest Group, National Academy of Management
  • 2002 – 2007: Executive Committee of Division of Organizational Development and Change, National Academy of Management
  • 1988 – Present: Member Academy of Management Division of Organizational Development and Change
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (View an extended list)
  • Barrett, F. & Sarbin, T. R. “Honor as a Moral Category: A Historico-linguistic Analysis.” Theory and Psychology. Vol. 1(1), 2008, pp. 5-25.
  • Barrett, F. “Value Free Conception of Science,” in International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Clegg, S. & Bailey, J. (eds). Portland, OR: Sage, 2008. (1601-1605)
  • Barrett, F. & Sarbin, T. R. “The Rhetoric of Terror: ‘War’ as Misplaced Metaphor,” in Information Strategy and Netwars, Arquilla, J. (ed). 2007.
  • Ludema, J. & Barrett, F. “Appreciative Inquiry Summit” in The Change Handbook, Holman, P., Devane, T., Cady, S. (eds). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006.
  • Barrett, F. “Toward an Aesthetic of Cooperation,” in A Handbook for Transformative Cooperation: New Designs and Dynamics, Piderit, S., Fry, R., & Cooperrider, D. (eds). Palo Alto: Stanford Press, 2006.
KEYWORDS/TECHNOLOGIES:
  • Keywords: Organizational change, Qualitative Research Methods, Organizational Design, Leaderships and Complexity, Innovation, Creativity, Collaboration



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