203.432.5979

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior

Professor Wrzesniewski's research interests focus on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts (e.g., stigmatized occupations, virtual work, absence of work), and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling. Her current research involves studying how employees shape their interactions and relationships with others in the workplace to change both their work identity and the meaning of the job.

Selected Books
Identity and the Modern Organization (with C.A. Bartel and S. Blader, eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

Selected Publications
"Knowing Where You Stand: Physical Isolation, Perceived Respect, and Organizational Identification Among Virtual Employees" (with C.A. Bartel and B. Wiesenfeld), Organization Science, Vol. 23, 743-757, 2012

"Cultural Clashes in a 'Merger of Equals': The Case of High-Tech Start-ups" (with I. Drori and S. Ellis), Human Resource Management, Vol. 50, 625-649, 2012

"Effort in the Face of Difference: Feeling Like a Non-prototypical Group Member Motives Effort" (with T.G. Okimoto), European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 42, 628-639, 2012

"On the Meaning of Work: A Theoretical Integration and Review" (with B.D. Rosso and K.H. Dekas), Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 30, 91-127, 2010

"I Won’t Let You Down… or Will I? Core Self-evaluations, Other-Orientation, Anticipated Guilt and Gratitude, and Job Performance" (with A.M. Grant), Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 95, 108-121, 2010

"Perceiving and Responding to Challenges in Job Crafting at Different Ranks: When Proactivity Requires Adaptivity" (with J.M. Berg and J.E. Dutton), Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 31, 158-186, 2010 (Nominated for Best Paper published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior in 2010.)

Working Papers
"The View from Below: Members’ Experiences of a Multiple Identity Organization"  (with M. Anteby)

"Caring in Constrained Contexts" (with J.E. Dutton and G. Debebe)

Education
PhD University of Michigan
MA University of Michigan
BA University of Pennsylvania