Huse, Edgar Francis, 1924-1981

A behavorial scientist, consultant, and author, Edgar F. Huse was born in 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska to Joseph A. and Agnes E. Huse. He received his BA from Creighton University (1950), his MA from the University of Nebraska (1953), and his doctorate from Western Reserve University (1959). He came to Boston College in 1964 and taught in the College of Business Administration, where he was professor and chairman of Organizational Studies. His primary area of study was organizational behavior management, which encouraged businesses to redesign jobs to make them more enriching and challenging for workers. The author of numerous articles and books, he also worked with various corporations as a consultant to develop job enhancement programs, including at Standard Oil, Raytheon, General Electric, Corning Glass Works, and John Hancock. He married Mary Louise Horstman, and they had six children: Thomas, William, Joseph, M. Kathryn, Patricia, and Susan. Huse died in 1981.