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Organizational Sociology is a specialized area of sociology that deals with the use of sociological (and social psychological) insights to study, understand and analyze the social context of work and the organizational settings in which work takes place.

While the field of organizational sociology is well grounded in theory and research, it is an applied field whose practitioners work in a variety of organizational settings and handle various informal organization, organizational development, employee alienation, motivation, morale, job satisfaction and productivity, leadership, industrial democracy (worker participation in decision decision making, labor relations, unions), organizational restructuring, effectiveness and efficiency, program evaluation, strategic planning, conflict and conflict resolution, organizational power structure, majority-minority relations in organizations, and the relationship between organizations and their community.

The Organizational Sociology program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is designed to educate students in human relations in organizations and the social aspects of industry, for the purpose of producing organizational leaders equipped with good human relations skills. This program will equip students with adequate organizational human relations skills to be able to successfully:

hold leadership positions in business organizations
hold careers in business consulting
hold administrative positions in government/government agencies.

Students may specialize themselves in any area of human relations of their special interests. Such areas may include employee turnover, work alientation, job satisfaction, organizational structure, job discrimination, organizational culture, diversity planning and management, organizational relations (intra, inter and organization-environment) organizational change/restructuring, and conflict-conflict resolution.