Mary_Jo_Hatch

Mary Jo Hatch Taking Organizational Theory to a New Level: Through Aesthetics and Emotional Expression Dr. Mary Jo Hatch is a Professor of Organization Theory. She teaches at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Dr. Hatch started her educational plight by acquiring a Bachelor of the Arts in English Literature from the University of Indiana. She also studied architecture during her undergraduate years. Her interest in aesthetics go back a long way. It was later in her life that her interest turned toward a career in business, so she decided to acquire her MBA in Finance from the same University. When pursing her Doctorate in Organizational Behavior, she tackled the ever so popular Institution of Stanford University (Commerce.Virginia.edu). At this point she began combining her interest in art with business when she wrote her dissertation on “The effects of Physical Space on the Way People Spend Their Time At Work” (acorn.lld) Her research interests include organizational culture, organizational identity, image and the corporate brand; and literary and other aesthetic approaches to management and organizing with particular interests in Jazz and theater as metaphors for organizing (Commerce.Virginia.edu). She has published articles on these and hatch, organizational, employees, corporate, management, dr, theory, organization, must, corporation, 2002, university, through, happy, believes, way, out, journal, identity, human, expressive, et, customers, brand, al, technical, studies, reputation, relations, real, products, performance, people, part, marketing