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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
"The Struggle to Establish Organizational Membership: Newcomer Socialization in Remote Work Contexts" (with C.A. Bartel and B. Wiesenfeld), Identity and the Modern Organization, 2007

"Personal Value Priorities of Economists" (with N. Gandal, S. Roccas, and L. Sagiv), Human Relations, Vol. 58, 1227-1252, 2005

"Interpersonal Sensemaking and the Meaning of Work" (with J.E. Dutton and G. Debebe), Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 25, 93-135, 2003

"'It’s Not Just a Job': Shifting Meanings of Work in the Wake of 9/11," Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 11, No. 2, 230-234, 2002

"Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of their Work" (with J.E. Dutton) Academy of Management Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, 179-201, 2001. Reprinted in C. L. Cooper & W. H. Starbuck, eds., Work and Workers: A Three-Volume Set, Sage Publications, 2005

Working Papers
"Remoteness as a Resource: The Impact of Virtual Work on Job Crafting" (with C.A. Bartel and B. Wiesenfeld)

"Resolving Hybrid Organizational Identities: Orienting the Mirror from Below" (with M. Anteby)

“If I Could Turn Back Time: Occupational Regret and its Consequences for Work and Life” (with J. Tosti and J. Landman)

"Symbolic Boundaries and Boundary Work During Post-Merger Integration" (with I. Drori and S. Ellis)

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