Aparna Joshi
Arnold Family Professor of Management, Director
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 438 Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-0099
Email Address
aaj1@psu.edu
Aparna Joshi
Arnold Family Professor of Management, Director
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 438 Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-0099
Email Address
aaj1@psu.edu
Aparna Joshi 's work focuses on gender, diversity, and leadership in organizations. Her research appears in the leading journals in the field of management including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science. Her work in the area of gender dynamics in engineering work groups was also awarded a National Science Foundation grant.
Aparna’s work has received the Academy of Management’s Saroj Parasuraman Award in 2010, the Dorothy Harlow Distinguished Paper Award in 2006 and 2008, the Ulrich-Lake Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Human Resource Management Journal, and the Academy of Management’s Best Dissertation Award (Gender and Diversity in Organizations division) and has also been featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer, USA Today, and the Times of India. Prior to joining Smeal she was on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
She has served on the editorial boards of top journals and as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.
She was awarded the 2014 Cummings Award for Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement, one of the highest professional honors in the field, by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management and was appointed a fellow of the Academy of Management in 2019.
Please visit her personal website to learn about her Intentional Inclusivity (I2) Lab "Working towards Inclusivity In and Around Organizations": www.aparnajoshi.net
Expertise
Diversity & Inclusion
Leadership
Teams
Education
Ph D, Rutgers University, 2002
MS, Rutgers University, 1999
Courses Taught
MGMT 601 – Ph.D Dis Full-Time
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MGMT 845 – Lead Diverse Orgs (3)
Managing diversity and differences effectively is one of the most pressing leadership challenges in organizations today. This course focuses on increasing knowledge, skill, and confidence to address diversity related challenges that are an inevitable part of the manager's life. Course materials are organized around an Awareness-Empathy-Action/Allyship (AEA) framework. First, students will gain awareness around topics such as bias, prejudice, (in)equity and discrimination in the workplace. Course materials will direct students towards a greater awareness about how their personal biases and values shape decision making in interpersonal and group contexts as well as recognizing sources of bias and discrimination in the context surrounding them. Second, students will learn concepts that allow them to build empathy and take the perspective of others who are different. Often, people can empathize with others who are share a similar background or set of values, but transferring this empathy across differences can be challenging. Through case discussions and experiential learning students will have an opportunity to build their empathy across differences. Both awareness and empathy contribute to the third key component of this course- taking action to ensure equity and inclusion in the workplace. Through cases and exercises students will learn when and how to take individual action as well as promote inclusive and equitable practices in organizations. Overall, the AEA framework provides a pragmatic and evidencebased approach to recognizing and addressing bias and discrimination as well as fostering an inclusive workplace culture.
BA 801 – Management (2)
Examination and application of concepts of human behavior and organization to managing people in work organizations.
BA 597 – Special Topics (1)
Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.
MGMT 445 – Manage Diverse Wrkfrce (3)
This course focuses on developing knowledge and skills for dealing with demographic, functional, occupational and identity-based differences within and among organizations.
MGMT 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)
MGMT 528 – Sem Org Beh (3)
Current theoretical and research issues applicable to the study of individual and group behavior within organizational settings.
MGMT 597 – Special Topics (3)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
MGMT 597A – **Special Topics** (3)
MGMT 590 – Colloquium (2)
Continuing seminars which consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
MGMT 591 – Organizational Research Design (3)
Experience in designing research for organizational science, to maximize the validity of eventual conclusions; methodological choices, constraints, and compromises (tradoffs).
MGMT 301H – Basic Management Concepts (3)
Study of fundamental principles and processes available to the understanding of management.