Leadership, Organizational Culture, and Diversity in Work Groups and Organizations
Jennifer Chatman, Professor
Business, Haas School
Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.
Professor Jennifer Chatman’s lab works on a variety of questions at the intersection of organizational behavior, social and personality psychology, and firm strategy, and uses a mixture of behavioral lab experiments and field and archival research to answer these questions.
Some current topics under investigation include:
- What implications do new, more flexible modes of work have for managers?
- What can data from Glassdoor and LinkedIn tell us about how culture changes during exogenous shocks?
- What role does person perception and bias play in an organization’s ability to respond to shifting priorities?
- What impact do narcissistic leaders and team members have on their teams?
- How do underlying norms shape how people conduct business and interact with one another in an organization?
- What are the popular beliefs about organizational culture and how true are they?
In your application, please indicate which of these questions interests you most and why.
This project will be overseen by Professor Jennifer Chatman. Professor Chatman is an expert on topics such as culture, social norms, and diversity in teams. URAPs will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by Merrick Osborne and Professor Chatman. Some URAPs may have the opportunity to work more closely with Professor Chatman on research support activities and other projects, depending on their performance.
Role: The URAP’s role could include conducting literature reviews in the topic areas, help with research design, running experiments in XLab and the Haas Behavioral Lab, collecting survey data, coding and analyzing survey and experimental data, preparing archival data for analyses, and even helping to develop publishable research papers.
Qualifications: Required qualifications:
- Students must be excellent communicators, able to collaborate well with others, hard-working, organized, detail-oriented, and responsible.
- We are interested in recruiting diverse students of all academic backgrounds who demonstrate an interest in the subject matter.
Desired qualifications (not required):
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Experience with statistical analysis and tools such as R or SPSS
- Experience with programming related to large data sets (especially using Python)
- Experience with survey design (especially using Qualtrics).
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Merrick Osborne, Staff Researcher
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Related website: https://www.jenniferachatman.com/
Related website: https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/chatman-jennifer/