Featured memberRobert Kahn
Bob started a long career with the Institute of Social Research in 1952 shortly after receiving his PhD from the University of Michigan. He has served from 1957-8 and 1965-9 on the SPSSI Council, once as Secretary-Treasurer and for three years as SPSSI Representative to the APA. In 1970 he served as SPSSI President. In 1988 he was awarded the Kurt Lewin Award for his exceptional studies on the application of organizational research to international peace. In order to continue his legacy, the ISR recently set up the Kahn Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Social Issues for research dealing with major social problems. As Bob says in his letter about the fellowship,
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Robert Kahn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and is a founding father of the modern study of organizational theory and survey research. His books such as The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966), co-written with Daniel Katz, pioneered scientific attempts to understand leadership, role behavior and productivity using open systems theory. Few psychologists before him had considered how organization contributed to health and wellbeing of employees. In international and peace studies, Bob forged new paths of enquiry by applying his ideas about organizations to nation states. Throughout the 1990s he was part of the groundbreaking multi-disciplinary study supported by the MacArthur Foundation to examine aging, and in 1999 he co-authored the book, Successful Aging, which was received to widespread acclaim.