Ralph H. Kilmann
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| birth_name = Ralph H. Kilmann
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| citizenship = American
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| alma_mater = Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
| occupation = Management consultant, educator, and author
| known_for = Co-authored the Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
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Ralph Kilmann is an American management consultant, educator, and author.{{Cite web |last=Vozza |first=Stephanie |date=2022-01-15 |title=Resolving these 4 inner conflicts can help you move forward |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90712139/resolving-these-4-inner-conflicts-can-help-you-move-forward |access-date=2022-02-21 |website=Fast Company |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Lawler |first=Jennifer |title=The Real Cost of Workplace Conflict - Employee Conflict|url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/207196 |access-date=2022-02-21 |website=Entrepreneur |language=en}} He co-authored the Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, a framework for understanding conflict based on five 'modes' of conflict responses: competing, accommodating, avoiding, collaborating, and compromising.{{Cite web |title=Five Approaches to Dealing With Conflict |url=https://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-approaches-dealing-conflict-894.html |access-date=2022-02-21 |website=Houston Chronicle
|date=18 June 2010 |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2005-02-13 |title=Shalom Saada Saar, "Know thyself 101," The Boston Globe, February 13, 2005, F12 |pages=96 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102205227/shalom-saada-saar-know-thyself-101/ |access-date=2022-06-06}}
Bibliography
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Louis R. Pondy and Dennis P. Slevin (Eds.), The Management of Organizational Design: Volume I, Strategy and Implementation, North-Holland, New York, 1976.{{cite journal |last1=Tosi |first1=Henry L. |last2=Kilmann |first2=Ralph H. |last3=Pondy |first3=Louis R. |last4=Slevin |first4=Dennis |title=The Management of Organization Design, Volume I: Strategies and Implementation |journal=The Academy of Management Review |date=April 1978 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=388 |doi=10.2307/257684 |jstor=257684 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/257684 |issn=0363-7425|url-access=subscription }}
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Louis R. Pondy and Dennis P. Slevin (Eds.), The Management of Organizational Design: Volume II, Research and Methodology, North-Holland, New York, 1976.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Social Systems Design: Normative Theory and the MAPS Design Technology, North-Holland, New York, 1977.
- Ralph H. Kilmann and Ian I. Mitroff, Methodological Approaches to Social Science: Integrating Divergent Concepts and Theories, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1978.{{cite journal |last1=Hartman |first1=John J. |title=Book Review: Methodological Approaches to Social Science |journal=Philosophy of the Social Sciences |date=March 1983 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=115–116 |doi=10.1177/004839318301300116 |s2cid=149190536 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/004839318301300116 |language=fr |issn=0048-3931|url-access=subscription }}
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Kenneth W. Thomas, Dannis P. Slevin, Raghu Nath, and S. Lee Jerrell (Eds.), Producing Useful Knowledge for Organizations, Praeger, New York, 1983.{{cite journal |last1=Friedlander |first1=Frank |title=Review of Producing Useful Knowledge for Organizations. |journal=Administrative Science Quarterly |date=1984 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=646–649 |doi=10.2307/2392951 |jstor=2392951 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2392951 |issn=0001-8392|url-access=subscription }}
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Beyond the Quick Fix: Managing Five Tracks to Organizational Success, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1984.{{cite journal |last1=Beer |first1=Michael |title=Beyond the quick fix, by Ralph H. Kilmann. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984, $18.95 |journal=Human Resource Management |date=1985 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=366–369 |doi=10.1002/hrm.3930240311 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hrm.3930240311 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Ian I. Mitroff, Corporate Tragedies: Product Tampering, Sabotage, and Other Catastrophes, Praeger, New York, 1984.
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Mary J. Saxton, Roy Serpa, and Associates, Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1985.{{cite journal |last1=Pondy |first1=Louis R. |title=Gaining control of the corporate culture, By Ralph H. Kilmann, Mary J. Saxton, and Roy Serpa (Eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985, 451 pp., $27.95 |journal=Human Resource Management |date=1986 |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=631–637 |doi=10.1002/hrm.3930250409 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hrm.3930250409 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Dyer |first1=W. Gibb |title=Review of Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture. |journal=Administrative Science Quarterly |date=1987 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=484–487 |doi=10.2307/2392931 |jstor=2392931 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2392931 |issn=0001-8392|url-access=subscription }}
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Teresa Joyce Covin and Associates, Corporate Transformation: Revitalizing Organizations for a Competitive World, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1988.{{cite journal |title=Review of Corporate Transformation |journal=The Academy of Management Executive (1987-1989) |date=1989 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=162–164 |jstor=4164892 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4164892 |issn=0896-3789}}
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Managing Beyond the Quick Fix: A Completely Integrated Program for Creating and Maintaining Organizational Success, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1989.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Escaping the Quick Fix Trap: How to Make Organizational Improvements That Really Last, Audiobook, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1989.
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Associates, Making Organizations Competitive: Enhancing Networks and Relationships Across Traditional Boundaries, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1991.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Workbook for Implementing the Tracks: Volume I, II, and III, Kilmann Diagnostics, Newport Coast, CA, 1991.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Logistics Manual for Implementing the Tracks: Planning and Organizing Workshop Sessions, Kilmann Diagnostics, Newport Coast, CA, 1991.
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Associates, Managing Ego Energy: The Transformation of Personal Meaning into Organizational Success, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1994.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Quantum Organizations: A New Paradigm for Achieving Organizational Success and Personal Meaning, Davies-Black, Palo Alto, CA, 2001.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, The Courageous Mosaic: Awakening Society, Systems and Souls, Kilmann Diagnostics, Newport Coast, CA, 2013.
- Ralph H. Kilmann with Ian I. Mitroff, The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership: Coping with Chaos, Springer, New York, 2021.
- Ralph H. Kilmann, Creating a Quantum Organization: The Whys & Hows of Implementing Eight Tracks for Long-Term Success, Kilmann Diagnostics, Newport Coast, CA, 2021.