Susan Page Hocevar, PhD Associate Professor Graduate School of Business and Public Policy Naval Postgraduate School Contact shocevar@nps.edu

Research/Teaching Interests
organizational behavior, team effectiveness, negotiation and consensus building, and inter-agency collaboration

Biography
Susan Page Hocevar received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California where she teaches courses in organizational behavior, team effectiveness, negotiation and consensus building, and inter-agency collaboration. Her classes are offered to resident students (primarily international officers and US Civil Affairs officers) in master's degree programs related to SSTR (Stability Security, Transition and Reconstruction); senior military officers (O-6) participating in several executive programs offered by the NPS Center for Executive Education; and the NPS Executive MBA program.

Professor Hocevar has two research efforts that are currently on-going. She is a participating investigator for an Office of Naval Research sponsored research effort in Adaptive Architectures for Command and Control (since 1999). This research involves the application of principles of organization theory to modeling alternative structures designed for adaptability. As part of this work, Professor Hocevar is preparing a case study on the interagency work performed my RADM LeFever and members of Expeditionary Strike Group-1 staff (ESG-1) when they were assigned responsibility for the Combined Disaster Assistance Center in Pakistan following the earthquake in October 2005. Her second on-going research activity is focused on diagnosing and improving inter-organizational collaborative capacity. The initial context for this work was homeland security, but the current effort is examining a broader application of inter-organizational collaboration. Funding for this project has been received from the Acquisition Research Program at NPS. The inter-agency collaboration research is being done in conjunction with NPS professors Gail Thomas and Erik Jansen.

Relevant Recent Publications

Hocevar, S.P., Thomas, G.F., Jansen, E. (2006). "Building Collaborative Capacity: An Innovative Strategy for Homeland Security." In M.M. Beyerlein, S.T. Beyerlein, and F.A. Kennedy (Eds.) Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams, Vol. 12: Innovation Through Collaboration, pp. 255-274. Amsterdam: Elsevier Ltd.

Thomas, G.F., Hocevar, S.P. and Jansen, E. (2006) "A Diagnostic Approach to Building Collaborative Capacity in an Interagency Context." Acquisition Research Sponsored Report Series. Naval Postgraduate School. NPS-PM-06-026, 2006.

Hocevar, S.P., Jansen, E.; Thomas, G.F. (2004). Building Collaborative Capacity for Homeland Security. NPS Technical Report (NPS-GSBPP-04-008). Naval Postgraduate School. Monterey, CA.