TEORIA Y DISEÑO ORGANIZACIONAL

Richard L. Daft is Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He has published dozens of books and articles, and presented at more than 45 universities around the world. He also developed and managed the Center for Change Leadership, is a former Associate Dean at Owen, served as an editor at two leading journals and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He is among the most highly cited academics in the fields of economics and business. He studies high performance mental models, which include cognitive models of high performing managers and examining high performance management systems. He is also studying transactional vs. transformational communication and methods of using transformational communication to engage people in organizational change.