Bachazile L Sikhondze : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

Education

BS in Management Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, University of Oklahoma, 2018

MS in Management Information Systems, University of Oklahoma, 2019

PhD in Management Information Systems, University of Oklahoma, 2025

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of OIM, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, 2025 - present

Research Interests

Technostress and employee well-being

Algorithmic management and governance

Artificial intelligence and human dignity

Human–AI collaboration and content valuation

Teaching Interests

Business Data Analysis

Data Management and Visualization

Management Information Systems

Awards

ICIS 2024 Doctoral Consortium Honor, 2024

MISQ Author Development Workshop, 2023

$10,000 Peace Project Grant Recipient, 2015

United World College Merit Scholarship, 2012-24

Davis Merit Scholarship, 2014-19

Selected Publications

Sikhondze, B., Ye, H. J., Wang, W., Zhan, X., & Santhanam, R. (2025). Are You Willing to Pay for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Products? Disentangling the Disclosure Effects and the Mediating Role of Psychological Value. Journal of Management Information Systems, 42(2), 431-456.

Lopez, A.B., Stewart, J., Song, H., Mery, M., Patel, D., Gordon, C., Sikhondze, B., Connelly, S., Jensen, M. and Miranda, S., 2025. Us vs. them: moral, cognitive and affective language in group identity tweets. Journal of Social Media Research, 2(2), pp.104-121.

Sikhondze B., Sun H., (2024). Algorithmic Control as Dignity Affronts Among Digital Content Creators. Forthcoming. Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Bangkok, Thailand.

Sikhondze, B. L., Durcikova, A., & Santhanam, R. (2024). The impact of organizational citizenship behaviors on technostress in a post-COVID-19 remote work context: The role of media synchronicity. Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, Hawaii.