Charlie Ehin
Charlie Ehin
Faculty EmeritiFaculty Emeritus
Faculty Emeritus
Contact
Phone: 801.832.2600
Email: cehin@westminstercollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma
M.B.A. Syracuse University
B.A. Colgate University
About
Dr. Charles (“Kalev”) Ehin is a recognized management and innovation dynamics authority.
An Emeritus Professor of Management at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Ehin
has authored several groundbreaking management books, including Unleashing Intellectual
Capital (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000), which details how human nature supports or
undermines workplace collaboration and innovation, and Hidden Assets: Harnessing the
Power of Informal Networks (Springer, 2004), which explains why people can be physically
controlled but not managed.
His newest book, The Organizational Sweet Spot: Engaging the Innovative Dynamics of
Your Social Networks (Springer, 2009), pinpoints where the formal and informal elements
of an organization overlap, and how that “sweet spot,” which he believes is where
most of the productive work in an enterprise takes place, can be expanded. He is
also the author of Chapter 11, “Co-Evolving Relationships and Innovation Dynamics”
in Intellectual Capital and Technological Innovation: Knowledge-Based Theory and Practice
(IGI Global, 2010).
Ehin was born in Tallinn, Estonia but fled his native country during World War II
when it was torn apart by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1950, he immigrated
to the United States, where he obtained a BA from Colgate University, an MBA from
Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of
Oklahoma.
Ehin joined the U.S. Air Force in 1960 and held several leadership positions including
teaching at the Air Command and Staff College. He began teaching at Westminster College
in 1983 and served as Dean of its Gore School of Business from 1983 to 1990.
Areas of Expertise
General management, organizational behavior, organization development and change, informal social networks, self-organizing systems or organizations, human nature and its evolutionary foundation, and knowledge management
