Nancy DiTomaso
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Bio:
Nancy DiTomaso is Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick. Her research specialties include the management of diversity and change, the management of knowledge-based organizations, and the management of scientists and engineers. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and she previously taught at New York University and Northwestern University. She also has a Certificate in Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended Proyecto Linguistico in Quetzeltenango, Guatemala.
She has co-authored and co-edited five books and has had articles published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Sex Roles, Leadership Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Engineering-Technology Management. She is currently completing a forthcoming book entitled The American Non-dilemma about how people think about issues of inequality. In addition, she has been analyzing survey data on the career experiences of 3200 scientists and engineers from 25 major companies. Her work on the transformation of organizations into "organizations of the future” has addressed the changes in the structure of organizations, work and careers, and the management skills needed for the coming decades.
She has been elected to several national offices in various professional associations, including a position on the American Sociological Association Council, as Chair of the Organizations and Occupations Section of the ASA, and as President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. She served as chair of the Department of Organization Management for six years previously and is currently serving in that position. She also served as Doctoral Director for the Ph.D. in Management Program for two years.
In addition to research and teaching, Professor DiTomaso has conducted workshops, offered seminars, conducted survey research, and provided other professional services on a consulting basis for major corporations and public agencies.
