University of Michigan

Empowerment Research

Leadership Research

Positive Organizational Scholarship

Downsizing Research

Teaching

Gretchen M. Spreitzer


Professor of Management and Organizations

Chair of Management and Organizations

Gretchen M. Spreitzer's research focuses on employee empowerment and leadership development, particularly within a context of organizational change and decline. Her most recent work is looking at positive deviance and how organizations enable employees to flourish. This work fits within a larger effort at Michigan's Business School to develop a Scholarship of Positive Organizing that is dedicated to understanding how work organizations contribute to the development of human strengths and virtues.

 

She is the co-author of three books, The Leader's Change Handbook: An Essential Guide to Setting Direction and Taking Action (1999) with Jay Conger and Edward Lawler, The Future of Leadership: Speaking to the Next Generation (2001) with Warren Bennis and Thomas Cummings, and A Company of Leaders: Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in Your Workforce (2001) with Robert Quinn.

 


Management & Organizations Department

Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship

 

 

 

Contact


Gretchen M. Spreitzer

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

701 Tappan Street, Room R4372

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

 

P: 734.936.2835

F: 734.936.6631

spreitze@umich.edu

 

Curriculum Vita