Connor, Patrick E. 1941–

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Connor, Patrick E. 1941–

PERSONAL: Born January 21, 1941, in Seattle, WA; son of Frank (a structural ironworker) and Jean (a homemaker; maiden name, Barkman) Connor; married Sara Ames (a homemaker), September 7, 1963; children: Michael, Kristen, Frank. Education: University of Washington, Seattle, B.S.E.E., 1962, Ph.D., 1970; Purdue University, M.S.I.A., 1965.

ADDRESSES: Office—Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, 900 State St., Salem, OR 97301. E-mail—pconnor@willamette.edu.

CAREER: Boeing Co., Seattle, WA, scientific programmer, 1962–63; Control Data Corp., Minneapolis, MN, checkout engineer, 1964; General Dynamics Corp., Convair Division, San Diego, CA, engineering administrator, 1965–67; University of Washington, Seattle, instructor in organization theory, 1968–70; Oregon State University, Corvallis, assistant professor, 1971–74, associate professor, 1974–80, professor of management, 1980–81; Willamette University, Salem, OR, professor of organizational analysis, 1982–, member of Atkinson Center for Executive Development, 2000–. University of British Columbia, visiting professor, 1990–91; seminar leader; conference and workshop participant; consultant. Member of editorial board, Pacific Sociological Review, 1972–76, Journal of Management, 1979–86, Academy of Management Review, 1984–87, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 1985–93, Journal of Management Inquiry, 1991–, Advances in International Comparative Management, 1993–96, and Academy of Management Executive, 1998–2005.

MEMBER: International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values, Academy of Management (member of executive committee, Technology and Innovation Management Division, 1990–91), Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Western Academy of Management (president, 1986–87).

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from Fred Meyer Foundation, 1989–92, and Kaneko Foundation for International Research and Education, 1990–91.

WRITINGS:

Dimensions in Management, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1974, 3rd edition, 1982.

(With Theo Haimann and William G. Scott) Management, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 3rd edition, 1978, 5th edition, 1985.

Organizations: Theory and Design, Science Research Associates (Chicago, IL), 1980.

Organization Structure and Design, Science Research Associates (Chicago, IL), 1984.

(With Linda K. Lake and Richard W. Stackman) Managing Organizational Change, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 1988, 3rd edition, 2003.

Contributor to books, including Dimensions in Modern Management, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1974; Stability and Change in the Family, edited by Robert W. Fogel, Elaine Hatfield, and others, Academic Press (New York, NY), 1981; Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, edited by Neil Ashkanasy and others, Sage Publications (Beverly Hills, CA), 2000; and Managing Organizational Complexity: Philosophy, Theory, and Application, edited by Kurt A. Richardson, Information Age Publishing (Greenwich, CT), 2005. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals and other periodicals, including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Pacific Sociological Review, Human Organization, Journal of Long-Term Care Administration, Journal of Advertising Research, Business Quarterly, Harvard International Review, Journal of Management Inquiry, Public Administration Review, Public Personnel Management, and Academy of Management Journal. Book review editor, Academy of Management Review, 1981–84.

Connor's writings have been translated into Spanish and Chinese.

SIDEUGHTS: Patrick E. Connor told CA: "My writing has been of two types. One is empirically based journal-length research pieces, as well as a few essay or expository pieces. Both sorts have tended to focus on my central research interest: managerial values systems. In 2005, for instance, my coauthor and I published a small piece asking whether managers' values reflect their self-selection into, or socialization with, the managerial profession. In addition, my collaborators and I worked on two manuscripts examining and comparing the personal value systems of government managers in the United States, Canada, and Japan.

"The second type of writing has been management textbooks. Managing Organizational Change, written with Linda K. Lake and Richard W. Stackman, is aimed at advanced students of management, including executives and other practitioners. It is both a text and a professional book.

"Studying personal values has been my research interest since graduate school. While on the faculty of Oregon State University, I found that my friend and colleague Boris Becker had similar interests. As a result, we began collaborating and have had great fun studying the subject together over the past several years. Managing Organizational Change came about because I was teaching a graduate class in organization change and was unhappy with the treatment that I found in the textbook literature. Consequently I began developing my own set of readings and lecture materials, and eventually that all took the form of a book that reflected my preferred approach to the subject."