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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

ADVANCE Faculty Fellow, 2023-2024

Research Interests

Inequality
Social Class
Gender
Behavioral Ethics
Organizational Behavior

Teaching Interests

General
  • Behavioral Ethics
  • Organizational Behavior

Selected Publications

Tilton, J., Lucas, K., Kish-Gephart, J.J., & Kent, J. In press. Enduring, Strategizing, and Rising Above: Workplace Dignity Threats and Responses Across Job Levels. Journal of Business Ethics. 

Kingsley, M., Kish-Gephart, J.J., & Moergen, K. In press. In the Shadows of the #MeToo Movement: An examination of social class. In O’Leary-Kelly, A. & Rawski, S. (Eds.) “Spotlights & Shadows: What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Sexual Harassment”. 

Campbell, J. T., & Kish-Gephart, J. J. 2024. Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility. Human Relations, 77(5), 650-679. 

Den Nieuwenboer, N., Kish-Gephart, J.J., Treviño, L., Peng, A., & Reychav, I. 2023. The Dark Side of Status at Work: Perceived Status Importance, Envy, and Interpersonal Deviance. Business Ethics Quarterly, 33(2), 261-295. 

Kish-Gephart, J. J., Moergen, K. J. N., Tilton, J. D., & Gray, B. 2023. Social Class and Work: A Review and Organizing Framework. Journal of Management, 49(1), 509–565. 

Moergen, K. J. N., & Kish-Gephart, J. J. 2023. Bringing “Class” into the Classroom: Addressing Social Class Privilege Through Management Education. Journal of Management Education, 47(1), 11–39. 

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.