New [team member] in 2022!

I’m delighted to announce that we’ll be adding a new post-doc this year:

Mihwa Seong just defended her PhD at Ivey Business School (Canada) after a master’s in Statistics (Western in Canada) and a bachelor’s in International Business & Economics (Ewha in South Korea). Mihwa is more centrally a critical scholar or feminist entrepreneurship scholar (and she will have a dual affiliation with Amanda Shantz at IFPM). Mihwa formerly worked for the Ministry of Justice and Forbes (South Korea). Mihwa joins us on July 1 (first virtually from Canada, then in-person from January 2023).

Eugenia and I are truly excited to add such a talent to our team with such a stellar scholar. Mihwa will be a valuable addition to our team and to the CCDI.

Welcome, Eugenia! (& we’re hiring!)

Eugenia Bajet Mestre will be joining us this fall as a DOK PhD student at HSG and a PRIMA project research assistant after finishing her master's degree at Tilburg University (Netherlands) and her bachelor's degree at IESE (Spain). She already has valuable research experience from her well-regarded research master’s program in social and behavioral sciences and having been a research assistant since 2017. Eugenia comes highly recommended, has a super work ethic and a very warm demeanor, and successfully won the position in a competitive recruitment of 50+ applicants. Welcome, Eugenia!

Looking forward to selecting a new team member (i.e., post-doc) to start soon alongside Eugenia.

We’re hiring! Currently recruiting a fully funded post-doc: all research/no teaching requirements. For more info, see the formal job posting here and email Jamie Gloor with questions.

Award-Winning Research

Our new research on a motherhood resume intervention, recently presented by lead author Ariella Kristal (Harvard Business School) at the Academy of Management (virtual) meeting, won a Best Paper award from the Gender Diversity in Organizations division.

The paper is coauthored by Leonie Nicks (Behavioral Insights Team), myself (University of St.Gallen), and Oliver Hauser (University of Exeter).

The risky business of potential parenthood

Is actual motherhood a requirement to face motherhood penalties? Are young, childfree women the “riskiest” employees to hire?

To answer these questions (and more), see our new paper on potential pregnancy as a hiring risk coauthored with an amazing team of talented coauthors: Tyler Okimoto (University of Queensland) and Eden King (Rice University).

Non-traditional paths for non-traditional leaders

Check out the new teaser for our new project (below).

A new year, a new Uni!

After 7 lucky years at University of Zurich, I'm delighted to start the new year with an SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation grant at the top-ranked Competence Centre for Diversity & Inclusion (CCDI-FIM) - University of St.Gallen (HSG).

Big thanks to everyone who helped make this happen-particularly Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander-and to UZH Digitalization, who sponsored my most recent–and very digital–research fellowship at University of Zurich. 🙏

Project updates can be found here.

Leadership: Exclusively human?

What would the world look like if socially-skilled robots stepped into the roles normally reserved for humans?

Together with Lauren Howe, David De Cremer, and Sam Yam, we explore these questions–and more–in this thought piece on how “soft skills” such as humor–often touted as exclusively human skills for future workers–may power robots’ rise into leadership roles. (See here in The European Business Review).

Non-traditional paths for non-traditional leaders?

I am absolutely honored and still in utter disbelief that the Swiss National Science Foundation has awarded me with a 1.2million PRIMA grant to form a small team to study extra-curricular and network-based paths to (more diverse) leadership. I’ll be working closely with the Centre for Diversity & Inclusion at the University of St. Gallen for 5 years, starting in Janury 2021.

More info coming soon-follow the project here for updates!

Award-Winning Research

Our research on work-family conflict and shocks/set-backs seems to have resonated with reviewers at the Academy of Management 2020.

“Help when dads need somebody? Follower reactions to leader work-family conflict” has won “Best Paper” from the Organizational Behavior (OB) division. This work was authored by Jamie Gloor (University of Exeter & University of Zurich), Susanne Braun (Durham University), Jenny Hoobler (University of Pretoria), and Claudia Peus (Technical University of Munich).*

“Critical events at a critical time: Setbacks and shocks in early academic career stages” has won “Best Symposium” from the Management Education and Development (MED) division. This work was organized by Stephanie Rehbock (Technical University of Munich) and Jamie Gloor (University of Exeter & University of Zurich); it also included a paper, “Men and Women’s Identity Work in response to Private- and Work-Shocks Over Time” (also coauthored by Stephanie Rehbock, Jamie Gloor, & Ronit Kark - Bar Ilan University).*

*Unfortunately, the latter two could not be listed in the formal program due to AOM’s rule-of-three.

My future of work in the future of work

My future of work will be researching the future of work and leadership at the University of Exeter Business School in Exeter, England, as Senior Lecturer (tenured).

If the name doesn’t sound familiar because of it’s well-ranked research and teaching programs, it might sound familiar as the school where writing legend and Harry Potter creator, JK Rowling, studied.