Michael Y. Moon, Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University, an M.B.A degree from the Yale University School of Management, and a certificate in Organizational Development & Consultation from the William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis in New York City. He has held teaching appointments at Barnard College, Columbia University, University of Connecticut, St. Peter's College, and Paier College of Art.
Dr. Moon has over 15 years of non-profit and private sector work experience, including marketing management positions in Internet, financial services, and health insurance companies. While at the Yale School of Management, where his academic emphases were in Organizational Behavior and Marketing, Dr. Moon consulted with local non-profit organizations on matters such as human resources, board development, and services marketing. He has also worked as an employee and board member of a youth orchestra and as the manager of a large multi-family apartment property.
Dr. Moon's research interests include: intersubjective and narrative dimensions of organizational change; linkages between human resource practices and an organization's ability to effectively serve its constituents; organizational life as context to individual employees' personal and career development; the management of knowledge, learning processes, and distribution of ideas in dynamic and turbulent organizations; and leadership, authority, and social defenses.
Dr. Moon also consults with leadership in organizations as well as with other employees on change in their organizations and on work-life balance issues.
Dr. Moon teaches courses in organizational behavior and change, human resources management, and public administration theory and practice.