Warner burke biography

Warner Burke is a consummate psychologist and vital contributor to the field of organization development and change.

Biography.

For over 50 years he has been a thought leader and a dedicated steward of the profession. Leadership, self-awareness, organization change, and learning agility are at the center of his academic work. Consulting to complex systems — both tightly coupled and loosely coupled, and designing learning opportunities for individuals, groups, and organizations, are at the center of his professional practice.

A leader in the field, he has been recognized throughout his career with numerous honors and awards for his scholarship and practice in organization development and change.

Burke, W. Warner, Edward Lee Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Editor, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.

This chapter substantiates the enduring values and relationships, institutions and thoughts, enduring work, legacies, and unfinished business, of W. Warner Burke — learner, leader, and scholar-practitioner. Warner Burke is referred to as Professor Burke, Dr. Burke, Warner Burke, Warner, and Burke, with distinctions made based on role.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Institutional subscriptions. Battilana, J. Change agents, networks, and institutions: A contingency theory of organizational change. Academy of Management Journal, 55 , — Article Google Scholar. Burke, W. Leadership behavior as a function of the leader, the follower, and the situation.