NASA Graduate Internship Opportunities
Organizational Science Research to Support Organizational Transformation
Location – Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681
Description – NASA Langley is proactively seeking to transform the way we work and the solutions we deliver by harnessing the convergence of emerging digital technologies, innovative approaches, and collaborators to achieve our strategic goals for NASA’s missions. We also recognize that large, established organizations such as NASA can create unintended barriers to the desired transformations we seek. In this research effort, we are studying how to enable NASA Langley to effectively transform our organization and infuse NASA Langley with the requisite skills, tools, methods, and organizational processes and structures to support effective organizational transformation and culture change. We enthusiastically seek to work with organizational science-related graduate students. In this internship, you will be conducting organizational-science related research to: 1) complete bench marking studies on relevant organizational topics; 2) summarize the state of practice and state of the art; 3) identify specific approaches on how NASA Langley may transform our organization and address culture change; and 4) assist with implementation steps. This internship will include qualitative and quantitative research using theoretically-grounded methodologies.
Computer/Software Skills: Basic Microsoft Office Skills
Technical Skills: With an appreciation for the complexity of transformation in a large organization and the challenge of fostering culture change, the scope of this study is intentionally broad to include but not be limited to the domains of: organization science, technology policy, design science, operations research, psychology, information science, system dynamics, network science, anthropology, etc. Applicants should have strong social science qualitative or quantitative research skills and have completed graduate-level coursework in the social sciences related to organizational behavior and preferably have ethnographic research skills.
Other Skills: Excellent skills in: conducting independent research, written and oral communication, and teamwork. Ability to work in a dynamic, diverse, and complex organization. Comfortable explaining social and organizational science research and its application to those non-trained in the social or organizational sciences.
Academic Level(s): Doctorate;Educator;Master’s
Major(s):
Business – Administration / Management and Operations; Business – Human Resources Management and Services; Business – Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods; Education – General; Human Resources – Public Administration and Social Service Professions / Other; Psychology – General; Social Science – Social Sciences / General
Mission directorate(s) directly benefiting from the tasks involved in this internship: Aeronautics Research Mission Center Operations Mission Human Exploration and Operations Mission Science Mission Space Technology Mission
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Applications are due November 5, 2019
