Assistant Professor
Fulton Hall 426B
Telephone: 617-552-8288
Email: lyndon.garrett@bc.edu
Lyndon Garrett's interests involve observing and analyzing social processes of human connection in moments of interaction. Specifically, to understand how organizations can create contexts that promote the experience of genuine, meaningful, and energizing connections, especially in the face of organizational characteristics that often inhibit such connection (e.g., competitive dynamics, impersonal roles, and norms of professionalism). Theoretically, his interests draw from intra- and inter-personal theories of workplace relationships, group and team dynamics, identification, meaning, and thriving. The analytic focus is on moments of interaction, drawing primarily on qualitative approaches to observe naturally occurring behavior. Professor Garrett tends to explore unique contexts with an eye towards finding and unpacking in these cases lessons that can inform organizations more generally.
Refereed Journal Publications
"Alternative Work Arrangements: Two Images of the New World of Work." (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Lindsey Cameron.) Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 473-499. March, 2017.
“Co-constructing a sense of community at work: The emergence of community in coworking spaces.” (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Peter Bacevice.) Organization Studies, 38 (6). February, 2017.
“Coordinating flexible performance during everyday work: An ethnomethodological study of handoff routines.” (With Curtis LeBaron, Marlys Christianson and Roy Ilan.) Organization Science, 27 (3), 514-534. May-June, 2016.
“The earlier the longer: Disproportionate time allocated to patients discussed early in attending physician handoff sessions.” (With Michael Cohen, Roy Ilan, Curtis LeBaron and Marlys Christianson.) JAMA Internal Medicine, 172 (22), 1762-1764. 2012.
Additional Publications
“Alternative Work Arrangements: Two Images of the New World of Work.” (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Lindsey Cameron.) Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 473-499. 2017.
“Should your Company Embrace Coworking?” (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Peter Bacevice.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 57 (1), 27-29. September, 2015.
“Why People Thrive in Coworking Spaces.” (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Peter Bacevice.) Harvard Business Review, 93 (9), 28-30. September, 2015.
Chapters in Edited Books
“Coworking Communities as Enablers of Thriving at Work”. (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Peter Bacevice.) In Cary Cooper and Micael Leiter (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Well-Being at Work. New York: Routledge.
“Related Constructs and Measures from Beyond the Field of Ethics.” (With Adrian Klemme and Alan Wilkins.) In Bradley Agle, David Hart, Jeffrey Thompson, and Hilary Hendricks (Eds.), Research Companion To Ethical Behavior In Organizations: Constructs and Measures. Edward Elgar Publishing.
“Moral Emotions and Emotional Dispositions”. In Bradley Agle, David Hart, Jeffrey Thompson and Hilary Hendricks (Eds.), Research Companion To Ethical Behavior In Organizations: Constructs and Measures. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Selected Working Manuscripts
“Workspace Design and Human Thriving.” (With Gretchen Spreitzer and Peter Bacevice.) Chapter in Ayoko and Ashkanasy (Eds.) Organizational Behavior and the Physical Environment. Routledge.