John Tropman is Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work at University of Michigan’s School of Social Work. He is the director of Leadership in Community Benefit Organizations, a program initiated by the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work to organize and focus management content for management majors and Community Organization and Policy & Evaluation majors. His research focuses on the organizational elements that create high-performing human service (and other) organizations. Topics of special interest are entrepreneurship, effective group decision making, C-level executives, the problem of executive burnout and flameout, and organizational rewards systems.
Tropman is also interested in culture in general, and organizational culture in particular. His book, The Catholic Ethic in American Society, addresses this issue.
Tropman’s full profile can be found on the University of Michigan’s website.