About RCOES
The Rice Center for Organizational Effectiveness Studies (RCOES) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary entity at Rice University. A fundamental assumption of RCOES is that the effectiveness of organizations depends to a large extent on how well these organizations utilize their human resources.
RCOES has the following objectives:
- to promote interactions and alliances among faculty at Rice who are concerned with issues of organizational effectiveness
- to promote basic and applied research on organizational effectiveness and to secure funding for this research by establishing relationships with the business community in the United States and abroad
- to disseminate the findings of research on strategies to improve individual and team performance to organizations in the public and private sectors
- to establish a global network of research partners in academic institutions
Although the primary participants at this time are from the Department of Psychology and the Jones Graduate School of Management, the intent is to provide a vehicle for collaboration among a diverse group of faculty and graduate students.
RCOES also provides consulting services to public and private organizations. By drawing on the vast expertise of its faculty and student affiliates, the Center has the flexibility to organize small working groups to address any number of organizational effectiveness issues. Costs for these services are determined on a case-by-case basis.