Work & Organizations Requirements
The Work and Organizations Ph.D. program develops scholars to assume research and teaching responsibilities at leading universities throughout the world. The program is academically rigorous with a focus on developing research excellence and a teaching portfolio. Our program is a full-time, 5-year, in-residence program. You are encouraged to design a meaningful research program within the larger context of our field. Opportunities for doing this are available through content, method, and analysis seminars; research with departmental faculty members; and independent research and study.
The Work and Organizations Ph.D. curriculum is designed to expose you to a multidisciplinary view of management, work, and organizations in terms of research questions, theory, methods, and analytic approaches while allowing for in-depth and focused research in certain areas based on faculty expertise and your interests. In your first two years, you'll complete topical seminars and related coursework, including sets of required core seminars in the fundamentals of organizational behavior, human resources research, organizational economics, and quantitative methods while also working closely with selected faculty in a research program.
The curriculum blends focused coursework in the Department of Work and Organizations with supporting coursework offered by other top-ranked University of Minnesota departments such as Psychology and Applied Economics. In the third year, you'll have the opportunity to teach your own course as well as make initial plans for developing a research topic for your doctoral dissertation. You'll then complete your dissertation and other research in the last two years of the program.