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Olu Oyinlade's Information |
Professor of Sociology |
Professor Oyinlade is primarily an Industrial/Organizational Sociologist. His formal graduate education included training in Formal (i.e. Complex) Organizations, Industrial Management and Applied (Social) Demography with a special focus on Type II Population Studies. In addition, he is a Race-Ethnic Relations Scholar. He currently teaches advanced courses that include Social Organizations, Formal (Complex) Organizations, Social Diversity in Organizations, and Race-Ethnic Relations. At the lower level, he teaches Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems. His prior employments included academic positions at both private and public universities in Massachusetts, South Dakota and Nebraska. He also served as the director of the university honors program for Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD, between 1992 and 1993.
As an Industrial/Organizational Sociologist, Professor Oyinlade’s expertise is in Organization Development with a special focus on organizational performance improvement through structural analysis of human behaviors and organizational structural adjustments. Organizational Sociology deals with the structural analysis and solutions to human relations and organizational processes that hinder organizational performance. Organizational problems are mainly structural, and they easily hinder organizational performance. Therefore, to solve organizational problems, it is important to provide structural solutions. Only structural solutions have the potential to be long lasting or permanent. With his expertise, Dr. Oyinlade is available to consult on structural analysis and solutions to organizational problems such as low productivity, employee motivation and job satisfaction, employee turnover, change management, leadership effectiveness and customer satisfaction. He is also available to consult on program evaluation and needs assessment for organization and community.
As a race-ethnic relations scholar, Dr. Oyinlade’s consulting skills are mainly in diversity management in organizations. He is well skilled in developing organizational diversity plans for specific organizational diversity needs. He is also skilled in solving many diversity related problems, such as conflict, oppressive behaviors, avoidance, isolation, turnover, segregation and alienation. He is available to conduct productive diversity seminars, lectures, workshops and executive coaching on both diversity issues and performance improvement management.
Professor Oyinlade’s research spans over various areas of organization development, leadership, organizational diversity and the impact of migration on employment and economic characteristics. He has presented his research at local, regional, national and international professional conferences, and his research has been published in scientific journals such as the Sociological Spectrum, Performance Improvement Quarterly, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, Educational Research Quarterly, the Great Plains Sociologist and the Great Plains Research. He is the creator and author of a standards-based method of assessing leadership effectiveness known as the “Essential Behavioral Leadership Qualities” [EBLQ] Method. He is also a co-author of an Introduction to Sociology textbook; “Basic Sociology: A Comprehensive Introduction”, published by BVT Publishing. In 2009, the Marquis Who’s Who Publication Board entered Professor Oyinlade’s biographical record into “Who’s Who in America”.