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Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

Volume 12, 2025

Some Reflections on a Career in Organizational Behavior

  • Greg R. Oldham1
  • A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; email: [email protected]
  • Vol. 12:1-18 (Volume publication date January 2025)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on June 14, 2024
  • Copyright © 2025 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information.

Abstract

In this article, I reflect on my journey in the field of organizational behavior. It was an unplanned journey but one that has lasted more than 50 years and has been incredibly rewarding. I discuss some of the early decisions that were instrumental in my choosing this career and the people and experiences that shaped my research program. I also reflect on some of the changes in the field of organizational behavior that I've noticed over that past five decades and some of the opportunities for scholars to contribute in the years ahead to one of my research areas—the design of jobs. I conclude with a brief discussion of my journey's end.

Keyword(s): autobiography, creativity, job characteristics, job design, organizational behavior
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