Quinetta Roberson
John A. Hannah Professor of Organizational Behavior | Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES
Quinetta Roberson's research interests focus on developing organizational capability and enhancing effectiveness.
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Biography
Quinetta M. Roberson is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Management and Psychology at Michigan State University. Prior to her current position, she was an endowed chair at Villanova University and a tenured professor at Cornell University. She has also been a visiting scholar at universities on every continent, except for Antarctica, and served as Program Officer of the Science of Organizations program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Professor Roberson served as President of the Academy of Management (AOM) from 2020-2021.
Professor Roberson's research interests focus on developing organizational capability and enhancing effectiveness through the strategic management of people, particularly diverse work teams. Her research has appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods and Personnel Psychology. She also edited a Handbook of Diversity in the Workplace published by Oxford Press and serves as co-editor of the Research in Social Issues in Management book series. Professor Roberson is a Deputy Editor for Academy of Management Journal (2022-2025) and served as Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology (2008-2014).
Professor Roberson has over 24 years of experience teaching courses and workshops globally on diversity, leadership, and talent management. To translate her research into action, Dr. Roberson provides professional advice and guidance to for-profit and non-profit organizations on creating value and delivering on business strategy through diversity and inclusion. She also is a two-time TEDx speaker, serves on several corporate boards and advisory councils, and has been recognized as one of the most influential female scholars and scholars of color on social media around issues of responsible business. Both her scholarly work and research-in-action are informed by Professor Roberson's background in finance, having worked as a financial analyst prior to obtaining her PhD from the University of Maryland.
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Areas of Expertise (4)
Human Resource Management
Diversity
Equity
Diversity & Inclusion
Accomplishments (3)
Trailblazer Award (professional)
2022 Management Doctoral Student Association
Outstanding Reviewer Award (professional)
2022 Academy of Management Review
Sage Award for Scholarly Contributions (professional)
2020 Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, Academy of Management
Education (3)
University of Maryland: Ph.D., Organizational Behavior 1999
University of Pittsburgh: M.B.A., Finance, Strategic Planning 1993
University of Delaware: B.S., Finance 1992
Affiliations (9)
- Michigan State University Federal Credit Union : Board Member
- Cinnaire, Inc : Board Member
- Better Up, Inc. : Science Advisory Board
- Academy of Management
- Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Association for Psychological Science
- American Psychological Association
- Society for Organizational Behavior
- Personnel and Human Resources Research Group
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News (3)
Tickets for Prince Harry’s first speech since releasing bombshell book ‘Spare’ will cost you nearly $1,000—but you can also watch it for free
Fortune online
2023-01-27
Quinetta Roberson, John A. Hannah Professor of Organizational Behavior, will speak at BetterUp’s upcoming Uplift summit in San Francisco on March 7–8, alongside Prince Harry, Issa Rae and Robin Arzón, reported Fortune and other outlets.
AOM Announces 82nd Annual Meeting
Academy of Management online
2021-07-28
"Having both observed and experienced disruption in how work is done, we are meeting our moment to inspire and enable a better world through our teaching and scholarship. As a community of scholars, we have an opportunity to use our professional expertise, learned experiences, and collective insights to address our most pressing business and societal challenges. This year's meeting provides a forum for us to do so by continuing to push spatial, temporal, cultural and other boundaries and strengthen our connections to amplify our scholarly voices and advance the impact of our science," said Quinetta M. Roberson, AOM President and John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Management and Psychology at Michigan State University.
Filene: How to Achieve Inclusion and Equity Inside and Outside the Credit Union...
CU Broadcast online
2021-06-22
In this clip, Quinetta highlights the Employee-Service-Profit Chain, the Customer Experience, 4 Elements of Financial Well Being, and she wraps it all up with the DEI Impact Chain.
Event Appearances (3)
The science of building better boards
Invited presentation in BroadX Michigan State University
What inclusive leaders do differently
Invited talk in the Positive Speaker Series University of Michigan
Inclusive scholarship as a force for good
British Academy of Management conference Manchester, England
Research Grants (1)
Diversity as an Organizational Capability: A Multilevel Examination of Board Composition and Firm Effectiveness
National Science Foundation $350,000
2021-2024
Journal Articles (5)
LGBTQ Systems: A Framework and Future Research Agenda
Journal of Management2023 Building on a body of management research that explores strategies for addressing issues of prejudice and discrimination against persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ), we introduce a conceptual framework for creating and maintaining LGBTQ-supportive climates in organizations. Based on a review of theory and research on LGBTQ-policies and practices, we highlight limits to our current understanding of their associated effects and the processes through which such effects occur.
Recognizing and Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities with Artificial Intelligence
Academy of Management Journal2023 As we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of organizations, societies, and economies through the rapid growth of data and development of digital technology (George, Osinga, Lavie, & Scott, 2016), artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the management field.
An Active Learning Approach to Diversity Training
Academy of Management Review2022 Diversity training is situated in a cultural context characterized by sociopolitical polarization, complex and fluid social identities, social movements, and debates over its appropriateness. Yet, we lack theories on the drivers of diversity learning and transfer that consider both unique workforce composition characteristics and contextual changes.
Contributive Justice: An Invisible Barrier to Workplace Inclusion
Journal of Management2022 Characterized as an employee's ability to fully and meaningfully contribute to work units or organizations (Mor Barak & Cherin, 1998), inclusion incorporates opportunities to significantly influence positive change in core work processes and to have that influence valued by others. Despite an increasing emphasis on inclusion as a strategy for valuing and integrating diversity into the formal and informal structures of organizations, research highlights variability in employee experiences of inclusion across social groups.
Inclusive Leadership in Thought and Action: A Thematic Analysis
Group & Organization Management2021 While research in the diversity and leadership literatures has given attention to the concept of inclusive leadership, work in these areas has progressed within relatively independent theoretical streams with little integration of findings. To integrate findings from these literatures and develop theory on inclusive leadership, this study explores the concept and enactment of inclusive leadership from the leader’s perspective.
