Management PhD Placement
Management and Organizations doctoral program alumni are located around the world. View recent alumni below by graduation year, or read an alumni reflection on their experiences at the Eller College of Management.
2024
Jeff Larson
Dissertation: Enacting values in shared, daily group work
Advisor: Brian Hilligoss, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, and Peter and Nancy Salter Fellow in Healthcare Management
Current Placement: Assistant Professor at Marshall University’s Department of Management and Health Care Administration
Scholar Page: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/672800
Mahira Ganster
Dissertation: Parenting Interruptions at Work: A Mixed Methods Investigation
Advisor: Allison Gabriel, Former McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations, 2021 Distinguished Scholar
Current Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business
Elena Wong
Dissertation: We Hope You Are Well: The Co-Creation of Wellbeing by Individuals in Organizations
Advisor: Brian Hilligoss, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, and Peter and Nancy Salter Fellow in Healthcare Management
Current Placement: Post-doctorate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business
Dissertation Record: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/672816?show=full
2022
Rebecca L. MacGowan
Dissertation: Reframing Anxiety as Excitement in Job Seekers: A Within-Person Field Experiment
Advisor: Allison S. Gabriel, McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations and University Distinguished Scholar
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Management, University of Arkansas
2021
Sijun Kim
Dissertation: To Speak Up or Not to, That is the Question: How Norm Violator’s Status Affects Observer's Voice
Advisor: Elizabeth McClean and Sarah P. Doyle, Assistant Professors of Management and Organization
Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
2020
Nitya Chawla
Dissertation: From Crude Jokes to Diminutive Terms: Experiences of Hostile and Benevolent Sexism During Job Search
Advisor: Allison S. Gabriel, McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations and University Distinguished Scholar
Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Faculty Website: https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/nitya-chawla
Jonathan B. Evans
Dissertation: Leader Curiosity and Team Intellectual Stimulation
Advisor: Jerel E. Slaughter, Eller Professor of Management and Organizations
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, University of British Columbia
Faculty Website: https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/jonathan-jon-evans
2018
Eugene Taeha Paik
Dissertation: The Well of the Past: How Experience with Problems While Using Prior Technologies Affects the Adoption of New Technologies
Advisor: Joseph Broschak, Associate Professor
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Management, The University of Mississippi
Faculty Website: https://business.olemiss.edu/faculty-directory/dr-eugene-taeha-paik/
Trevor Spoelma
Dissertation: Examining the Effects of Team Unethical Behavior on Boundary Spanning Activities in Multiteam Contexts: A Conversation of Resources Approach
Advisor: Aleksander P.J. Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies, The University of New Mexico
Faculty Website: https://www.mgt.unm.edu/faculty/facultyDetails.asp?id=10685
2017
Daphna Motro
Dissertation: Examining the Effects of Emotion on Deviance: An Appraisal Theory Approach
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Management, Hofstra University in Long Island
Faculty Website https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=6789&t=/Academics/Colleges/Zarb/MGMT/
2016
Dylan Cooper
Dissertation: Antecedents of Advice-Taking in Organizations: A Goal-Activation Approach
Advisor: Jerel Slaughter, Eller Professor of Management
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Management, California State University, Channel Islands
Faculty Website: https://business.csuci.edu/faculty.htm
2015
Ke Michael Mai
Dissertation: Differentiating between premeditated and impulsive unethical behavior: A criminal justice perspective
Advisor: Aleksander P.J. Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior
Current Placement: National University of Singapore
Faculty Website: https://bizfaculty.nus.edu.sg/faculty-details/?profId=479
2014
Jennifer Anderson
Dissertation: Selfish, excessive, greedy: The psychological causes and consequences of perceptions of greed
Advisors: Stephen Gilliland, Salter Chair in Healthcare Management, Nathan Podsakoff, professor, and Jerel Slaughter, Eller Professor of Management
Current Placement: Weber State University
Dissertation: Selfish, excessive, greedy: The psychological causes and consequences of perceptions of greed
Advisors: Stephen Gilliland, Salter Chair in Healthcare Management, Nathan Podsakoff, professor, and Jerel Slaughter, Eller Professor of Management
Current Placement: Weber State University
Faculty Website: https://www.weber.edu/goddard/Jennifer_Anderson.html
David Welsh
Dissertation: Extending the self-regulatory model linking high goals and unethical behavior: The moderating effects of goal commitment and subconscious priming
Advisors: Lisa Ordóñez, vice dean, and Aleks Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior
Current Placement: Arizona State University
Dissertation: Extending the self-regulatory model linking high goals and unethical behavior: The moderating effects of goal commitment and subconscious priming
Advisors: Lisa Ordóñez, vice dean, and Aleks Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior
Current Placement: Arizona State University
Faculty Website: https://wpcarey.asu.edu/people/profile/1037593
2011
Jessica Siegel Christian
Dissertation: A Multi-Level Model Examining the Effects of Unit-Level Culture on Abusive Supervision
Advisors: Aleks Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior, and Nathan Podsakoff, professor
Current Placement: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: A Multi-Level Model Examining the Effects of Unit-Level Culture on Abusive Supervision
Advisors: Aleks Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior, and Nathan Podsakoff, professor
Current Placement: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010
William Becker
Dissertation: Shared Display Rules and Emotional Labor in Work Teams
Current Placement: Virginia Tech
Dissertation: Shared Display Rules and Emotional Labor in Work Teams
Current Placement: Virginia Tech
Michael Christian
Dissertation: Over Tired and Under Control? Sleep Deprivation, Resource Depletion and Workplace Deviance
Advisor: Aleks Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior
Current Placement: University of North Carolina
Dissertation: Over Tired and Under Control? Sleep Deprivation, Resource Depletion and Workplace Deviance
Advisor: Aleks Ellis, Robbins Chair in Organizational Behavior
Current Placement: University of North Carolina
Edgar Kausel
Dissertation: Emotions and the Psychology of Social Chess: How Others' Incidental Affect Can Shape Expectations and Strategic Behavior
Current Placement: Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Dissertation: Emotions and the Psychology of Social Chess: How Others' Incidental Affect Can Shape Expectations and Strategic Behavior
Current Placement: Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Faculty Website: https://escueladeadministracion.uc.cl/profesores/edgar-kausel/
Jordan Stein
Dissertation: Situational and Trait Influences on Dynamic Justice
Current Placement: School of Nursing Columbia University
Dissertation: Situational and Trait Influences on Dynamic Justice
Current Placement: School of Nursing Columbia University
Faculty Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanstein/