Emily Heaphy
Associate Professor & John F. Kennedy Faculty Fellow
Management
Education
PhD in Management and Organizations, University of Michigan, 2008
BA in Women’s Studies, minor in Economics, Magna cum laude, Wellesley College, 1997
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2021-Present
Assistant Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018-2021
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, University of Rhode Island, 2016-2018
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Boston University, 2008-2016
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour, McGill University, 2007-2008
Instructor, Management and Organizations, University of Michigan, 2007
Recent Honors / Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organization Science / - Best Paper Finalist, Academy of Management Review for “The Geography of Strain: Organizational Resilience as a Function of Inter group Relations”, 2019
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organization Science / - Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review / - Developmental Reviewer of the Year Finalist, Academy of Management Review / - Full-time MBA Favorite Professor (Elective) Award, Boston University, 2016
PhD Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, Boston University, 2014, Nominee
PhD Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, Boston University, 2015
Research Interests
Work Relationships
Emotions
Human Body at Work
Voice
Teaching Interests
General
- Negotiations
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
Selected Publications
Gottfredson, R., Wright, S., Heaphy, E.D. A Critique of the Leader-Member Exchange Construct: Deconstructing the Dominant to Build a Stronger Foundation. Leadership Quarterly, In Press.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101385
Heaphy, E.D., Byron, K., Ballinger, G.A. Gittell, J.H., Leana, C., Sluss, D.M. (2018). Introduction to Special Topic Forum: The Changing Nature of Work Relationships. Academy of Management Review, 43(4): 558-569.
Kahn, W.A., Barton, M., Fisher, C., Heaphy, E.D., Reid, E., Rouse, E. (2018). “The Geography of Strain: Organizational Resilience as a Function of Intergroup Relations.” Academy of Management Review, 43(3): 509-529.
Heaphy, E.D. (2017). “Dancing on Hot Coals”: How Emotion Work Facilitates Collective Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 60(2): 642-670.
Heaphy, E.D., Locke, K., Booth, B. (2016) Embodied Relational Competence: Attending the Body in the Boundary-Spanning Work of Patient Advocates. In Elsbach, K. & Bechky, B. (Eds.) Qualitative Organizational Research: Best Papers from the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, vol. 3. Information Age Publishing, 161-197.
Heaphy, E.D. (2013) Repairing Breaches with Rules: Maintaining Institutions in the Face of Everyday Disruptions. Organization Science, 24(5): 1291-1315.
