The Organizational Science doctoral program is an interdisciplinary program focusing on employee and organizational health, well-being, and effectiveness. Organizational Science is both a science and a practice, founded on the notion that enhanced understanding leads to applications and interventions that benefit the individual, work groups, the organization, the customer, the community, and the larger society in which the organization operates.

The program faculty (18 core members) come from (in alphabetical order): Human Resources Management, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Communication, Organizational Sociology and Social Psychology.

What we study…

The OS faculty and students have areas of research interest that span disciplines.  What follows is a sample of some of the topics and areas that our faculty and our students have interests. 

Leaders and Leadership

Groups, Teams, and Meetings

Diversity including ethnicity, gender, age, SES

Online interactions, communication technology, and artificial intelligence 

Health and (dis)Ability at work

Dissent and Ethics 

As an interdisciplinary program, we find that faculty and students tend to “mix and match” these core research interests. For example, “diversity in leaders of online groups” or “Health disparities in work by age and ethnicity” are examples of how students leverage faculty expertise to develop their own interdisciplinary research program.

Further, as an interdisciplinary program, we train our students in a wide variety of qualitative, quantitative, and big data analyses.

For more information…

Find out more about the Organizational Science Ph.D. program by viewing the course catalog on UNC Charlotte’s website.

Click to watch An introductory video explaining what Organizational Science is.

Students from various perspectives within the program share their experience.

Listen as members of our faculty discuss their perspective on the program.