Jennifer Kish-Gephart
Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Management
Education
PhD in Organizational Behavior and Behavioral Ethics, Penn State University
MBA, Drexel University
BS in Accounting, Drexel University
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Organization Studies (with tenure), Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2021-Present
Associate Professor of Management (with tenure), University of Arkansas, 2016-2020
Assistant Professor of Management, University of Arkansas, 2006-2010
Recent Honors / Awards
Faculty Excellence in Service Award, Walton College of Business, 2019
Finalist for the 2013 Academy of Management Review Best Paper of the Year Award, 2014
Research Interests
Inequality
Social Class
Gender
Behavioral Ethics
Organizational Behavior
Teaching Interests
General
- Behavioral Ethics
- Organizational Behavior
Selected Publications
Den Nieuwenboer, N., Kish-Gephart, J.J., & Treviño, L.K, Peng, A. & Reychav, I. 2022. The Dark Side of Status at Work: Perceived Status Importance, Envy, and Interpersonal Deviance. In Press at Business Ethics Quarterly
Kish-Gephart, J.J., Moergen, K., Tilton, J. & Gray, B. 2022. Social Class and Work: A Review and Organizing Framework. In Press at the Journal of Management.
Lee, M.K., Kish-Gephart J.J., Mizruchi, M.S., Palmer, D.A., & Useem, M. 2021. Social Class in Organizations: Entrance, Promotion, and Organizational and Societal Consequences of the Corporate Elite. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(4), 385-394.
Gray, B., Johnson, T., Kish-Gephart, J.J., & Tilton, J. 2018. Identity work by first-generation college students to counteract class-based microaggressions. Organization Studies (Special Issue on Inequality, Institutions, and Organizations), 39(9), 1227-1250.
Kish-Gephart, J.J. & Campbell, J.T. 2015. You don’t forget your roots: The influence of CEO social class background on strategic risk taking. Academy of Management Journal, 58(6), 1614-1636.
Gray, B. & Kish-Gephart, J.J. 2013. Encountering Social Class Differences at Work: How “Class Work” Perpetuates Inequality. Academy of Management Review, 38(4), 670-699. †Finalist for the 2013 Academy of Management Review Best Paper of the Year Award
Kish-Gephart, J.J., Harrison, D. A., & Treviño, L. K. 2010. Bad Apples, Bad Cases, and Bad Barrels: Meta-Analytic Evidence about Sources of Unethical Decisions at Work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(1), 1-31.
Kish-Gephart, J.J., Detert, J., Treviño, L.K., & Edmondson, A. 2009. Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work. Research in Organizational Behavior, 29, 163-194.
