Research interests include workplace motivation, work-life integration, corporate environmental sustainability, managing diversity.

Laura Graves
Professor, School of Business
Professor Emeritus, School of Business
- About
- Scholarly and creative works
- Awards and grants
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Connecticut, 1982
- M.A. in Social Psychology, University of Connecticut, 1980
- B.A. in Psychology, College of William and Mary, 1977
Affiliated Department
Scholarly and creative works
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Managing virtual workers — strategies for success
Engineering Management Review2020Vol. 48Issue #2 -
Working from home — strategies for success
4-10-2020 -
Working from home-strategies for success
5-4-2020 -
4 Keys to Mastering Remote Work
5-4-2020 -
Virtual work and need for recovery
SOM Research SeminarWorcester, MADecember2019Sponsored by SOM -
Employee pro environmental behaviors in Russia: The roles of top management commitment, managerial leadership, and employee motives.
Resources, Conservation, and Recycling2019Vol. 140 -
Women and men in management
Chapter: Making employment decisionsPublished by Sage2019 -
Women and men in management
Chapter: Working in Diverse teamsPublished by Sage2019 -
Virtual work and need for recovery
GSOM Research Seminar -
The role of employees’ perceptions of leaders, values, and motivation in employees’ proenvironmental behaviors
Journal of Cleaner Production2018Vol. 196 -
Unchartered territory in work-family research
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Thriving in leadership roles: The importance of autonomous motivation.
Positive Organizational ScholarshipAnn Arbor, MI2017 -
To reduce turnover – focus on employee motivation
Vol. 2Issue #2American Management Association -
More than money – promoting managers’ internal motivation
Vol. 53Issue #4 -
Motivating your managers to want to do what they need to do
Association for Talent Development -
Motivating your managers: What’s the right strategy?
Center for Creative Leadership -
Sustainability segments in organizations: How differences in views affect progress on sustainability
Decision Sciences InstituteAustin, TX2016 -
Sustainability segments in organizations: How differences in views affect progress on sustainability
GSOM Research Seminar -
Managerial motivational profiles: Composition, antecedents, and consequences.
Journal of Vocational Behavior2015Issue #87 -
Managerial leadership and employee pro environmental behavior
Academy of ManagementVancouver2015 -
Understanding managers’ motivational profiles: Nature, Antecedents and Consequences
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology2015 -
Methodological, theoretical, and empirical approaches to career transitions
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What motivates us at work?
First FridayClark University -
Managerial motivational profiles
GSOM Research SeminarClark University -
The scales of work and life: Moving work-life balance research forward
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Make your meetings better
Clark University -
How transformational leadership and employee motivation combine to predict employee pro environmental behavior in China
Journal of Environmental Psychology2013Vol. 35 -
Motivation at work: What matters more, generation or organizational level?
Consulting Psychology Journal2013Vol. 65 -
Self-determination at work: Understanding the role of leader-member exchange
Motivation and Emotion2013Vol. 37 -
Employee pro environmental behavior: Understanding the roles of organizational values, employee values and employee motivation
Fifth International Conference on Self-Determination TheoryRochester, N.Y. -
Understanding the nature and consequences of managers’ work motivation: A latent profile modeling approach
Fifth International Conference on Self-Determination TheoryRochester, N.Y. -
Consequences of diversity: An asset or stigma?
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Driven to work and enjoyment of work: Effects on managers’ outcomes
Journal of Management2012Vol. 38 -
Managing the new workforce: International perspectives on the millennial generation
Chapter: Perceptions of authority and leadership: A cross-generational investigationPublished by Edward Elgar2012 -
Environmental leadership: A reference handbook
Chapter: Fostering employee pro environmental behavior: The impact of leadership and motivationPublished by Sage2012 -
When political skill matters to leader effectiveness ratings: The role of perceived prosocial impact
Academy of ManagementBoston -
Perceptions of authority and leadership: A cross-national, cross-generational investigation
Academy of ManagementBoston -
Work-family culture and work performance: Does a supportive culture enhance performance?
Work and Family Researchers NetworkNew York -
Managerial derailment: When political skill and prosocial impact matter
Society for Industrial and Organizational PsychologySan Diego -
Women and men in management
Chapter: Working in diverse teamsPublished by Sage2011 -
Women and men in management
Chapter: Making employment decisionsPublished by Sage2011 -
Understanding employee pro-environmental behavior: A test of a theoretical model
Best Paper Proceedings of the 2011 Academy of ManagementSan Antonio -
Managerial promotability: The roles of supervisor support and mentoring subordinates
Society for Industrial and Organizational PsychologyChicago -
Effects of LMX on employee attitudes: The role of need satisfaction and autonomous motivation
Academy of ManagementMontreal, Canada -
Autonomous and controlled motivation in managerial work: Effects of perceived organizational support
Academy of ManagementMontreal, Canada -
Toward understanding the effect of leader-member exchange: Need satisfaction in the workplace
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Perceived organizational support: An antecedent of autonomous motivation
Society for Industrial and Organizational PsychologyAtlanta, GA -
Effects of managers’ motives for work: The role of perceived organizational support
University of Connecticut, Department of PsychologyStorrs, Connecticut -
Does commitment to family roles hinder managers’ work lives?
Women’s ForumWorcester, Massachusetts -
Stigmatization of men, caregivers, and sexual minorities
Academy of ManagementChicago -
New Directions in work/family research
Academy of ManagementChicago -
The Oxford handbook of personnel psychology
Chapter: Sex and race discrimination in personnel decisionsPublished by Oxford University Press2008 -
The questions we ask about balancing work and life: Learning from our colleagues
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Commitment of family roles: Effects on managers’ attitudes and performance
Journal of Applied Psychology2007Vol. 92 -
Family ties: Managers can benefit from personal lives
Leadership in Action2007Vol. 26Issue #6 -
Handbook of women in business and management
Chapter: Sex, sex similarity, and sex diversity effects in teams: The importance of situational factorsPublished by Edward Elgar2007 -
Gender, race, and ethnicity in the workforce: issues and challenges for today’s organizations
Chapter: Developing men and women leaders: The influence of personal life experiencesPublished by Praeger2007 -
diversity in organizations
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Gender and careers: Risk taking and developmental experiences among executive women
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Sex differences and similarities in communication
Chapter: Gender and leadership: Perceptions and realitiesPublished by Lawrence Erlbaum2006 -
Effect of workaholism on managerial performance: Help or hindrance?
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And justice for all? Antecedents and consequences of perceived discrimination
Academy of ManagementAtlanta -
Women and money: Not an oxymoron
MassBay Community CollegeWellesley, Massachusetts -
Sex and sex dissimilarity effects in ongoing teams: Some surprising findings
Human Relations2005Vol. 58Issue #2 -
Commitment to family roles: Help or hindrance to managerial success?
Syracuse University conference on Diversity as a Competitive Advantage in the Global EconomyBlue Mountain Lake, NY -
Sex, sex similarity, and sex diversity in ongoing teams: Controversies, evidence, and research directions
British Academy of ManagementOxford, UK -
Work and family: Balance, conflict, and interference
Academy of ManagementHonolulu, Hawaii -
Commitment to family roles: Effects on managers’ work attitudes and performance
Academy of managementNew Orleans, Louisiana -
Gryphon & Pleiades Honor Society Leadership ConferenceClark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Commitment to family roles: Effects on managers’ work attitudes and performance
Center for Creative LeadershipGreensboro, North Carolina -
On our 20th year: Gender and Diversity in Organizations and Women in Management–Past, present, and future
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How leaders shape organizations
Academy of ManagementSeattle -
Commitment to nonwork roles: Effects on managers’ work performance, work attitudes, and well-being
Department of Psychology, University of ConnecticutStorrs, Connecticut -
Psychology in the Workplace
Opportunities in Psychology, Career Exploration PanelClark University, Worcester, Massachusetts -
Explanations for discrimination in the workplace: How well do they apply across target groups?
Houston, TX -
Explaining discrimination in the workplace: Working toward a general theory
British Academy of ManagementEdinburgh, Scotland -
Handbook of gender and work
Chapter: Gender bias in interviews’ evaluations of applicants: When and how does it occur?Published by Sage1999 -
The employment interview handbook
Chapter: Are some interviewers better than others?Published by Sage1999 -
Exploring the intersection of race and gender: A research workshop
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Exploring cultural diversity
Bethune Multicultural CenterClark University, Worcester, Massachusetts -
College recruitment: Removing personal bias from selection decisions
Personnel1998Vol. 66Issue #3 -
Demographic diversity in decision making groups; The experiences of women and people of color
Academy of Management Review1997Vol. 22 -
Teaching diversity
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Time and team member diversity: A longitudinal study of decision making groups
Academy of ManagementBoston -
Individual differences in interviewers’ decision processes: An agenda for a new generation of research
Academy of ManagementBoston -
Sex similarity, quality of the employment interview, and recruiters’ evaluations of actual applicants
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology1996Vol. 69 -
The employee selection interview: A fresh look at an old problem
Human Resource Management Journal1996Vol. 35Issue #2 -
A case example: Four perspectives on developing research questions and selecting research methodologies
Academy of ManagementCincinnati -
The effect of sex similarity on recruiters’ evaluations of actual applicants: A test of the similarity-attraction paradigm
1995Vol. 48 -
Team dynamics as a predictor of empowerment: A field study
APA-NIOSH Conference on Occupational Stress and HealthWashington, D.C. -
Voluntary and involuntary turnover
Academy of ManagementVancouver -
Voluntary and involuntary turnover
Academy of ManagementVancouver -
Women’s career advancement
Academy of ManagementVancouver -
Assessing person-organization fit in personnel selection
International Journal of Selection and Assessment1994Vol. 2 -
Effects of sex-based preferential selection and discrimination on job attitudes
Human Relations1994Vol. 47 -
Legislative assistant wanted
Sage -
Effect of sex similarity on recruiters’ evaluations of applicants: Is communication a mediator?
Academy of ManagementDallas -
Effect of sex similarity on recruiters’ evaluations of actual applicants: A test of the similarity-attraction paradigm
Society for Industrial and Organizational PsychologyNashville -
Demographic diversity in organizational settings: Implications for human resources management and leadership practices
Academy of ManagementDallas -
Measuring organizational behavior constructs
Eastern Academy of ManagementAlbany, New York -
Dispatch from the corporate environment
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Who gets hired? Gender bias in employee selection
Massachusetts Association for Women in EducationClark University, Worcester, Massachusetts -
Validity research: Do academic and organizational interests really differ?
Journal of Organizational Behavior1993Vol. 14 -
Sources of individual differences in interviewer effectiveness: A model and implications for future research
Journal of Organizational Behavior1993Vol. 14 -
Organizational justice and fairness in HRM
Eastern Academy of ManagementProvidence, Rhode Island -
Interviewer decision processes and effectiveness: An experimental policy capturing investigation
Personnel Psychology1992Vol. 45Issue #2 -
Affirmative action: Avoiding negative consequences
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Effects of sex-based preferential selection and discrimination on job attitudes
Academy of ManagementLas Vegas -
Assessing person-organization ft in personnel selection: An evaluation of alternative techniques
Academy of ManagementMiami -
Stress and type A behavior
Eastern Academy of Management, Fourth International ConferenceNice, France -
Is fair pay empowering?
Eastern Academy of ManagementHartford, Connecticut -
Individual differences in employment interviewers’ decision processes: A policy capturing approach
Academy of ManagementSan Francisco -
Issues in staffing and compensation
Eastern Academy of ManagementBuffalo, New York -
Behaving on paper: An exercise on communicating effectively in writing
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Management practices in Pacific Rim nations
Eastern Academy of Management, Third International ConferenceHong Kong -
An investigation of sex discrimination in recruiters’ evaluations of actual applicants
Journal of Applied Psychology1988Vol. 73Issue #1 -
Predicting organizational behavior from office environments: A field exercise
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Behaving on paper: An exercise in written organizational behavior
Eastern Academy of Management -
Issues in leadership and management
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Selecting employees: Techniques for improving satisfaction and reducing turnover
Executive Roundtable, Institute for Nonprofit Training and Development, Hartford Graduate CenterHartford, Connecticut -
New Perspectives on organizational performance
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Measuring the true effectiveness of training programs: An experiential exercise
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Connecting your dissertation to the real world
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Predicting organizational behavior from office environments: A field exercise
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Performance appraisal systems
Connecticut Association for Human Services ConferenceWaterbury, Connecticut -
Effects of leader persistence and environmental complexity on leadership perceptions: Do implicit beliefs discourage adaptation to complex environments?
Group and Organization Studies1985Vol. 10Issue #1 -
Measuring the true effectiveness of training programs: An experiential exercise in human resources management
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Assessing Organizational Change: A Guide to Methods, Measures, and Practices
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Sex discrimination in the recruitment process: Does it exist outside the laboratory?
Academy of ManagementBoston -
The use of undergraduates and working MBA students in casual attribution leadership research
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Dual career couples
Third Annual Conference on Women and OrganizationsBoston -
Race, age, and affirmative action
Eastern Academy of ManagementMontreal, Canada -
Salience and assignment of blame to victims
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Assistant wanted: An employment interview: An experiential exercise
San Diego: University Associates -
Attributions of causality for group performance as a function of sex, leadership style, and group performance
Academy of ManagementDallas -
Implicit leadership theory: A comparison to two-dimensional leadership theory
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Multidimensional scaling
Department of Management, University of ConnecticutStorrs, Connecticut -
Everyday views of leadership and their impact on subordinate satisfaction
Presentation to Executive Advisory Board of the University of Connecticut Department of ManagementHartford, Connecticut -
Superwoman: Coping with the demands of work and home
Conference on Understanding and Surviving the Academic Marketplace, School of Education, University of ConnecticutStorrs, Connecticut -
Sex differences in implicit theories of leadership: An initial investigation
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Implicit leadershi theory: A multidimensional model of supervisory behavior
American Institute for Decision SciencesSan Francisco -
The structure of implicit leadership theory: An exploratory study
Eastern Psychological AssociationBaltimore -
Managerial performance assessment and factors affecting managerial performance
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Women’s implicit theories of leadership
International Interdisciplinary Congress on WomenHaifa, Israel -
The effects of perceptual salience and subject orientation on attributions of responsibility for a rape
Eastern Psychological AssociationNew York -
The effects rape publicity on likelihood estimates, responsibility attributions, and preventative behaviors
Eastern Psychological AssociationHartford, Connecticut
Awards and grants
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Employee outcomes and perceptions of organizational support during economic turbulence: An empirical study
National Science Foundation, Innovation and Organization Sciences
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The impact of economic conditions on the employee-organizational relationship
Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Foundation