Emily Heaphy
Professor | John F. Kennedy Faculty Fellow
Emily D. Heaphy is a professor of Management and John F. Kennedy Faculty Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In September 2026, she will begin a three-year term as Chair of the Management Department. Her research focuses how individuals draw on interpersonal relationships, emotions and the human body are used to manage tensions between personal needs and organizational demands. Recent examples of studies include accessing healthcare, work-life balance, disability access, and workplace romances. She is a co-founder of the Positive Relationships at Work research micro-community. Heaphy has won numerous teaching awards at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. As a Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow (2023-2024), in the Office of Faculty Development she developed a research-based workshop series for department heads and chairs aimed at equipping chairs to make positive change through improving work relationships. She is an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Journal.
Education
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Research Interests
Teaching Interests
- Negotiations
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Qualitative Research
Media, Industry, and Public Impact
Heaphy, E. (2025) Four Ways Chairs Can Develop Relational Attention. Inside Higher Education (online), published October 21.
Professional Links
Selected Publications
Heaphy, E.D. and Trefalt, Š. (2024) Hiding in plain sight: Co-enacting the sustainable worker schema in a professional service firm. Organization Science, 35(4): 1203-1570, C2-C3. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.14201
*Caza, B., *Heaphy, E.D., Roberts, L.M., Spreitzer, G.S. (2024) Revaluing ordinary moments: Disrupting gendered positive self-concepts through a narrative feedback intervention. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10(1): 34-58. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2021.0021
- *Indicates equal authorship.
Lawrence, T.B., *Schlindwein, E., *Jalan, R., *Heaphy, E.D. (2023) Organizational body work: Efforts to shape human bodies in organizations. Academy of Management Annals, 17(1): 37-73. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2021.0047
- *Indicates equal authorship, names listed in reverse alphabetical order.