Narda Quigley, PhD

Mahoney Family Endowed Professorship in Business; Professor of Management | Villanova School of Business Villanova University

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Narda Quigley, PhD, is an expert in leadership, organizational behavior and teams.

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What Coronavirus Means for the Workplace

As the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, organizations, schools and large public events have been scrambling in an effort to figure out what will happen next.  But what if your employer doesn't have a formal work from home (or remote) policy? "Given that a high percentage of families have two working parents, managers need to understand that their usual expectations for productivity are going to have to adjust," says Narda Quigley, PhD, professor of management in the Villanova School of Business.  In addition, it will be a completely different dynamic for the manager-employee relationship. Deadlines and tasks will need to be fluid in a more virtual workday, Dr. Quigley says.  "It is impossible to expect that there wouldn't be an extreme impact on the processes that organizations depend on for day-to-day functioning, and so the goals have to change accordingly. Productivity goals and expectations probably need to be tabled (or at least dramatically decreased) until more about COVID-19 is understood. The organizations that are able to be nimble in the face of an unknown and developing situation, yet understanding of the urgency of public health directives and the needs of their employees, will emerge from this situation with valuable experience that may help them weather the next unexpected situation." Dr. Quigley also notes that women may be negatively impacted by an extended work from home period.  "As work transitions to the home sphere, one question to consider is whether this disruption will have a longer-term adverse impact on the careers of women, rather than men. Given the continued prevalence of traditional gender roles and expectations around caretaking in many American families, women will likely be expected to focus less on work when they are working from home, particularly if they have children at home or individuals in their families who are sick.  "Upon transitioning back into their regular working lives, women may find themselves further than ever from their next promotion. Organizations must be cognizant of this and understand that there are likely 'hidden' ways that women are contributing to their ongoing ability to operate—and without this activity, their ability to continue with business-as-usual would grind to a halt. However, this would require a fundamental, culture-wide rethinking of how we value what stands as work in this society, as American cultural norms are so strongly gender-specific."

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Business
Team Leadership
Organizational Behavior
Leadership
Teams
Personality
Management

Biography

Narda Quigley, PhD, is an associate professor of Management and Chair of the Department of Management and Operations at the Villanova School of Business. She attained her Ph.D. in organizational behavior and her research interests include motivation, multilevel issues, knowledge sharing, groups and teams in organizations, and emergent and cross-cultural leadership. Her work has been published in Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Business Venturing, among others. She currently serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of World Business and Group and Organization Management.

Education

University of Maryland

PhD

University of Pennsylvania

BA

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Nominee for the O’Mara Award for Excellence in Graduate-Level Teaching

2018 and 2015

2015 winner of G. Dale Meyer Best Paper Award

Most relevant research in Social Entrepreneurship at BCERC for Newbert & Quigley

2014 Certificate of Appreciation from Vanguard, Inc

For positively impacting student professional development

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Affiliations

  • Journal of Managerial Psychology Editorial Review Board

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After Trump council disbands, where do CEO & company reputations stand?

Philadelphia Business Journal  

2017-08-17

Brand reputation and consumer loyalty, today, take bigger hits from political and social issues, and companies aren't prepared for it. The reputations of the companies and CEOs that were on President Donald J. Trump's now-disbanded Manufacturing Council — including New Jersey's Campbell Soup Co. and Merck & Co. – would be left unscathed, experts say, because of the unprecedented and unorthodox climate the president has created. ... Chief executives and business leaders who are not prepared to speak out actively in favor of diversity and inclusion "in a very clear way" run the risk of "losing the war for talent," said Narda Quigley, chair of management and operations and associate professor of management at the Villanova University School of Business.

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Re-examining the functional diversity-performance relationship: The roles of behavioral integration, team cohesion, and team learning

Journal of Business Research

Tekleab, A.G., Karaca, A., Quigley, N.R., & Tsang, E.K

2022

The motivational drivers underlying for-profit venture creation: Comparing social and commercial entrepreneurs

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship

Kevin D Clark, Scott L Newbert, and Narda R Quigley

2017

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Unpacking team dynamics with growth modeling

Organizational Psychology Review

Collins, C.G., Gibson, C.B., Quigley, N.R., & Parker, S.K.

2016

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