Edgar H. Schein
Organizational psychologist and MIT professor
Edgar H. Schein was a Swiss-born American psychologist and MIT Sloan School of Management professor who studied organizational culture and the dynamics of helping.
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Born 1928 in Zurich, Switzerland Died 2023
About Edgar H. Schein
Edgar Schein was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1928 and died in January 2023. He studied at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, and earned a PhD in social psychology at Harvard University. After four years at the Walter Reed Institute of Research, he joined MIT, where he taught until 2005. His research covered organizational culture, career development and process consultation. In Helping (2009), he sets out a general theory and practice of giving and receiving help. Humble Inquiry followed in 2013, looking at why offering help tends to be hard in Western culture. He also wrote Organizational Culture and Leadership and Career Anchors, and kept consulting on culture and career issues until his death.