Elena Wong

Elena Wong is a sixth-year PhD student in Management and Organizations at the University of Arizona, Eller College of Management. Her research centers on employee wellbeing which she approaches from multi-level perspectives using various types of data including archival, survey, and qualitative. In her first stream of research, she focuses on the individual level of analysis, examining recovery activities and the interface between work and family through quantitative survey studies. In so doing, she highlights how activities outside of the workplace impact employee wellbeing and workplace behaviors. In her second stream of research, she conducts ethnographic observations and interviews aimed at the organizational level of analysis, exploring how organizational cultures shape employee wellbeing and organizational resilience in the face of adversity. 

Elena’s work has been published in Journal of Vocational Behavior and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives in Science and Practice. She has presented at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and International Conference on Social Dilemmas conferences. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a consultant in the healthcare industry. She earned a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish for the Professions from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Research Interests

• Wellbeing 
• Organizational change and resilience 
• Work/Non-work Interface
• Positive Organizational Scholarship

Publications

• Gabriel, A. S., Calderwood, C., Bennett, A. A., Wong, E. M., Dahling, J. J., & Trougakos, J. P. (2019). Examining recovery experiences among working college students: A person-centered study. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115, 103329.
• Chawla, N., Wong, E. M., & Gabriel, A. S. (2019). Expanding the discourse surrounding sexual harassment: The case for considering experienced and observed hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, and gendered incivility. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12, 79-83.

Presentations

• Gabriel, A.S., Wong, E.M., Rosen, C.C., Koopman, J., & Lee, Y.E. (April 2020). Understanding the episodic consequences of sexism at work. In A. Melson-Silimon & N.T. Carter (Chairs), Novel approaches to studying workplace sexual harassment. Symposium presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.
• Chawla, N., Wong, E. M., & Gabriel, A. S. (June 2019). Expanding the discourse surrounding sexual harassment: The case for considering experienced and observed hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, and gendered incivility. Poster presented at the International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Sedona, AZ. 

Professional Affiliations 

• Academy of Management
• The Ph.D. Project – Management Doctoral Student Association
• Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS)
• Association for Experiential Education