Current Members
Faculty
Travis Grosser
School of Business, Associate Professor of Management, University of Connecticut
Travis Grosser is an associate Professor of Management and the Academic Director of the MS in Human Resource Management program at UConn. His research focuses on how employees build and benefit from social networks at work, the factors that drive creativity in the workplace, and how organizations can effectively navigate change. He has conducted field research and consulted at multiple multinational firms and governmental organizations.
Website: https://www.business.uconn.edu/person/travis-grosser/
Nora Madjar
School of Business, Associate Professor of Management, University of Connecticut
Nora Madjar is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Connecticut School of Business and Fulbright Scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Her main expertise is creativity in the workplace and her research has contributed to a better understanding of the social and contextual factors that stimulate or hinder creative performance. Her current research focus is on the interaction of work and non-work relationships and their effect on creativity at work. Her scholarly work also examines different types of interruptions of work and how to manage them to facilitate performance and well-being as well as some gender differences in managing and perceiving interruptions. She has multiple articles published in the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Organizational Behavior among others.
Professor Madjar teaches organizational behavior, negotiations, and managing creativity and innovation courses at both the undergraduate and MBA levels and coaches MBA students for international negotiation
competitions.
John Mathieu
School of Business, Department of Management, University of Connecticut
John Mathieu is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut and holds the Friar Chair in Leadership and Teams. His interests include models of a team and multi-team effectiveness, and cross-level models of organizational behavior. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies, the armed services, federal, state, and public organizations.
Jo Oh
School of Business, Assistant Professor of Management, University of Connecticut
Dr. Jo Oh is currently an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Connecticut’s School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University and his M.S. in Human Resources and Organizations from Cornell University. Dr. Oh’s research is focused on understanding leadership processes, group dynamics, employee motivation, and workplace stress. His research has been published in top-tier academic outlets such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management Education.
Dr.Oh’s professional experience includes working on several projects with the Hyundai-Kia MotorGroup. He holds experience as an organizational analyst with Kia Motors HR Team, has worked on various projects with the Global Human Resource Management Team (Corporate Planning Division), and has worked with the Global Business Team (Corporate Planning Division) where he was involved in setting the company’s international policies and establishing trade agreements with the company’s business partners.
Website: https://www.business.uconn.edu/person/jo-kyoungjo-oh/
Greg Reilly
School of Business, Professor of Management, University of Connecticut
Professor Reilly is Professor of Management and Department Head at the UConn School of Business where he teaches integrative strategy classes. He developed the School’s Graduate Program in Human Resource Management and formerly served as its Academic Director. Greg is active in executive training and has led courses on developing strategy, HR metrics, strategic human resources and strategic financial management around the world. He has led executive classes for managers.
Greg’s research activities are focused on compensation, employee turnover, human capital, and the role of time in strategic management research. His work is regularly published in top tier academic journals.
Greg teaches and advises leaders from manufacturing, services, healthcare, government professional services and non-profit arts organizations. He most has most recently worked with executives from Precision Castparts Co. , BrightView, Travelers, Paradigm Precision, General Dynamics Electric Boat, and COMEX/PPG. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Alexandra Rheinhardt
School of Business, Assistant Professor of Management, University of Connecticut
Alexandra Rheinhardt is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests span multiple theories and levels of analysis and include identity, leadership, sense-making, social movements, stakeholder theory, and organizational change. Through taking a multilevel, multi-method approach to her work, she seeks to unpack the bottom-up and top-down influences on and outcomes of such processes. Alexandra received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University.
Website: https://www.business.uconn.edu/person/alexandra-rheinhardt/
Ph.D Students
Rohit Piplani
PhD Student in Management
On the Job Market
Rohit Piplani is a Ph.D. candidate in Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut with a concentration in Organizational Behavior & HRM. He earned his MS in Organizational Behavior & HRM from Massey University, New Zealand, and his Master of Business Management from the University of Waikato, NZ. In his research, he adopts a social network perspective to explore the influence of network characteristics and behaviors on individual, dyadic, and team-level outcomes. His dissertation uses a three-study, multimethod approach to investigate the affective and relational consequences of network brokering behaviors in the workplace. His work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Nathanial Easton
PhD Candidate in Management
On the Job Market
Nathaniel Easton is a Ph.D. candidate in Management at the University of Connecticut. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a MBA and a MS in Sports Administration and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the Dickinson State University. His current research interests revolve around team composition and team performance, with a particular interest in understanding how to maximize the performance of seemingly dysfunctional teams. He is also interested in the consequences of task and procedural conflict within teams.
Amnah Ameen
PhD Student in Management
Amnah Ameen is a PhD student in Management at the University of Connecticut with a concentration in Organizational Behavior. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor’s in Business Administration, and a concentration in Management and later pursued post-baccalaureate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania for two years before starting her PhD at UConn. Her research interests revolve around interpersonal perceptions, authenticity, impression management, and negotiations. Her ongoing research explores perceptions of authenticity at the workplace as well as distinctions between how negotiation processes are traditionally studied vs unfold in real life. Her work on leadership perceptions was recently published in Leadership Quarterly.
Jacob Johnson
PhD Student in Management & Entrepreneurship
Jacob Johnson is a PhD student in Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut with a concentration in Organizational Behavior. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Stanford University and a Master of Professional Studies in Applied Industrial-Organizational Psychology from George Mason University. Jacob served over 12 years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) before transitioning to academia, and he is currently a Major in the USMC Reserves. Jacob’s research interests include teams, multiteam systems, leadership, power, and organizational hierarchy. He is also interested in complex systems and multi-method research.