Dr..
About the Author.
Brandeis Innovation
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management
From the classroom to the workplace, our way of living always involves some element of coordination and cooperation to accomplish our goals.
How we work with others is an essential factor in determining the success of those collective efforts. Being able to measure and monitor these interactions, therefore, becomes important to optimizing workplace dynamics.
How people do their work together has always been of keen interest to Jody Hoffer Gittell, PhD., Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Since childhood, Jody’s interest in how people work together led her towards a career in academic research, studying workplace interactions and processes. Her learnings and experiences led to the development of her Relational Coordination (RC) theory – coordinating highly interdependent work through shared mutual values and based upon high quality