Faculty & Research News

Mary Ann Glynn was invited to join the newly formed Management and Labor Group (Behavioral Science and Policy Association) for the White House Social and Behavioral Science Team. The team reviewed the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, administered over more than 80 federal agencies, and recommended evidence-based interventions that could address several management and labor needs. This paper will appear in Behavioral Science & Policy, and will focus on improving employee wellbeing, agency productivity and performance, while being more effective and efficient for the taxpayer.

In August, the 76th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, the world’s largest forum devoted to management scholarship and education was held in Anaheim, CA. Winston Center’s Research Director Mary Ann Glynn served as Program Chair and created the theme: Making Organizations Meaningful. Several BC professors and PhD students presented and discussed their research at the meetings. Prof. Sandra Waddock spoke at several sessions, including, Errors of the Third Kind in Management Research: Creating Meaning in Scholarly Work; Making Organizations Meaningful: Rethinking Management around Dignity and Well-being; and Making Scholarly and Practitioner Lives and Work Meaningful. Professors Richard Nielsen and Jean Bartunek presented their work in a showcase symposium, Making Academic Practitioner Research Partnerships Meaningful. PhD students Christie Lockwood, Andrea Tunarosa, and Lee Watkiss conducted their third highly successful workshop on Measuring Meaning at the Collective Level.

PUBLICATIONS

Hicks, D. & Waddock, S. Dignity, Wisdom, and Tomorrow’s Ethical Business Leader. Business and Society Review. (Forthcoming).

Martin, S. R., Côté, S., & Woodruff, T. How parental income during childhood influences future leader-follower dynamics. Academy of Management Journal. (In press).

·         Featured in Growing up wealthy makes leaders more narcissistic, Harvard Business Review by same authors. 

·         Featured in Washington Post’s On Leadership. Is your boss an egomaniac? Maybe he was born to it. by Jena McGregor. 

·         Featured on “Midnight with Chris Hardwick” on Comedy Central.

·         A highlighted article in National Affairs. 

Martin, S. R. Stories about values and valuable stories: A field experiment of the power of narratives to shape newcomers’ actions. Academy of Management Journal. (Forthcoming).

·         Featured in The unexpected influence of stories told at work, by Francesca Gino, HBR.org.

·         Featured in Inc. The power of telling your companies stories, by Will Yakowicz.

Nielsen, Richard P. Corruption Reform Methods. Handbook of Business and Corruption: Cross-Sectoral Experiences. Michael S. Ablander and Sarah Hudson, Editors, Emerald Publishers, 2017.

Nielsen, Richard P. Ethics Leadership Methods. Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Deborah Poff, Editor-in-Chief, Springer, 2017.

Nielsen, Richard P. and Lockwood, Christi. Varieties of Transformational Outcomes From Institutional Ethics Logic Conflicts. Journal of Business Ethics, 136. 2017, print publication; 2016, electronic publication.

Waddock, S., McIntosh, M., Neal, J.A., Pio, E., & Spiller C. Intellectual Shamans, Wayfinder Scholars, and Edgewalkers: Working for System Change. Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Editor’s Introduction, special issue on Intellectual Shamans, Wayfinders, Edgewalkers, and Systems Thinkers: Building a World Where All Can Thrive, June 2016, Issue 62, 35-58.