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Joe Raelin
Knowles Chair

Joe Raelin holds the Asa S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern. In this role, he has overall responsibility for the Center for Work and Learning. In particular, he has sought to create common ground among the many disciplines and traditions that support work-based learning, document their effectiveness, and bolster policy initiatives that sustain the university’s commitment to this approach to educational provision. Joe was formerly Professor of Management at the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has centered on executive and professional education and development. He is a prolific writer having written many books and contributed over 100 articles to the foremost management and social science journals, among which are some frame-breaking works that are heavily cited. His books include: The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals (Harvard Business School Press, 1991), considered now to be a classic in the field of managing professionals; Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003), and most recently, Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass, 2008). 

Prof. Raelin is currently contributing to the development of the field of work-based learning as well as to that of the new paradigm of shared leadership via what he refers to as "leaderful practice." These two domains intersect accordingly in terms of:
1)  dialogue and reflective practices – what is the role of change agency and facilitation in promoting emancipatory forms of discourse?
2)  work-based learning and collective leadership – what epistemological shifts occur when we view leadership as a collective phenomenon that is conceived as a practice?

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Teaching Interests

Leadership (using work-based learning methods)
Ethics
Organizational Behavior

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Selected Publications

"Emancipatory Discourse and Liberation," Management Learning, 39 (5): 519-540, 2008.

“Refereeing the Game of Peer Review,” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7 (1): 124-129, 2008.

"Toward an Epistemology of Practice," Exemplary Contribution in Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6 (4): 495-519, 2007. [For a pdf version, click here]

“Developing Managers as Learners and Researchers: Using Action Learning and Action Research” (Joseph A. Raelin and David Coghlan), Journal of Management Education, 30 (5): 670-689, October 2006.

“Does Action Learning Promote Collaborative Leadership?” Lead article in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, 5 (2): 152-168, June 2006. [For a pdf version, click here]

“Taking the Charisma Out: Teaching as Facilitation,” Organization Management Journal, 3 (1): 4-12, 2006. (To view as a pdf file, click here]

“Finding Meaning in the Organization,” Sloan Management Review, 47 (3): 64-68, Spring 2006.

“Developmental Action Learning: Toward Collaborative Change,” (Joseph A. Raelin and Jonathan Raelin), Action Learning: Research and Practice, 3 (1): 45-67, April 2006.
[To view, click here]

"The Role of Facilitation in Practice," Organizational Dynamics, 35 (1): 83-95. [For a copy of the manuscript, click here]

"I Don't Have Time to Think! (vs. The Art of Reflective Practice)," Reflections: The SoL Journal, 4 (1): 66-79, 2002, and summarized in The Action Reflection Learning Newsletter, No. 30, February 2003.

"Public Refection as the Basis for Learning," Management Learning, 32 (1), 11-30, 2001

"A Model of Work-Based Learning," Organization Science, 8 (6): 563-578, 1997


"Action Learning and Action Science: Are They Different?" Organizational Dynamics, 26(1): 21-34, 1997

"The Persean Ethic: Consistency of Belief and Action in Managerial Practice," Human Relations, 46 (5): 575-621, 1993

"An Anatomy of Autonomy: Managing Professionals," Academy of Management Executive, 3 (3): 216-228, August 1989

"Unionization or Deprofessionalization: Which Comes First?" Journal of Organizational Behavior, 10 (2): 101-115, April 1989

"The 60's Kids in the Corporation: More than 'Daydream Believers,'" inaugural issue of the Academy of Management Executive, 1 (1): 21-30, February 1987

"An Examination of Deviant/Adaptive Behavior in the Organizational Careers of Professionals," Academy of Management Review, 9 (3): 423-427, July 1984, and reprinted in the Journal of Library Administration, 6 (1); 71-95, Spring 1985

Complete list of publications

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