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Carolyn T. Dang

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Assistant Professor

Department Management and Organization
Office Address 449 Business Building
Phone Number 814-863-3544
Email Address czd184@psu.edu

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Carolyn Dang is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Smeal College of Business. She is the Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics.

Education

Ph D, Organizational Behavior (Research Methods), The University of Washington, 2014

BA, Social Psychology, University of Chicago, 2006

Courses Taught

MGMT 451W – Bus Eth and Soc (3)
Advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, economic, equity, environmental, public policy, and political influences on managerial DECISIONS AND STRATEGIES. MGMT 451W Business, Ethics, and Society (3) Focuses on the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a manager must have in order to deal with the social, legal, ethical, and political demands in society. Ecological, ethical, and public policy dimensions of various managerial decisions are examined.

MGMT 590 – Colloquium (3)

MGMT 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)

MGMT 355 – Lead and Chg in Org (3)
This course focuses on concerns with understanding yourself as a leader in organizations-especially organizations undergoing change.

MGMT 326 – Org Beh and Design (3)
Concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. MGMT 326 Organizational Behavior and Design (3) This introductory course covers the concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. Issues and challenges of managing at different organizational levels (individual, group, project, and total organization) are discussed and illustrated with real-world examples. Students learn about the latest means of designing high-performing organizations, including how to change an organization. This course will serve as a foundation for taking advanced management courses. The primary method of evaluation is an examination after each of the four major parts of the course, but class participation and short papers may also be used for evaluation.

Selected Publications

Dang C., Mitchell M. S., "The positive spillover of managers’ ally work: Perceptions of manager liberalism and its effect on employee volunteering." Journal of Business and Psychology, 2024
Dang C., Joshi A., "On the plurality and politics of ally work: Liberalism and self, relational, and organizational ally work." Academy of Management Journal, vol. 66, no. 5, 2023, pp. 1554-1585
Dang C., "Taylor-ing ethics: Implications of Charles Taylor’s work of retrieval on Moral Foundations Theory." Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 2023, pp. 655-681
Yoon M., Joshi A., Dang C., "Male privilege awareness and relational well-being at work: An allyship pathway." Psychology of Men & Masculinities, vol. 24, no. 2, 2023, pp. 149–161
Dang C., Volpone S., Umphress E. E., "The ethics of diversity ideology: Consequences of leader diversity ideology on ethical leadership perception and organizational citizenship behavior." Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 108, no. 2, 2023, pp. 307-329
Barnes C., Dang C., Leavitt K., Guarana C., Uhlmann E., "Archival data in micro-organizational research: A toolkit for moving to a broader set of topics." Journal of Management, 2018
Dang C., Umphress E. E., Mitchell M. S., "Leader social accounts of subordinates’ unethical behavior: Examining observer reactions to leader social accounts with moral disengagement language." Journal of Applied Psychology, 2017
Reynolds S. J., Dang C., "Are the "customers” of business ethics courses satisfied? An examination of one source of business ethics education legitimacy." Business & Society, 2017
Fehr R., Yam K., Dang C., "Moralized leadership: The construction and consequences of ethical leader perceptions." Academy of Management Review, 2015
Reynolds S. J., Dang C., Yam K., Leavitt K., "The role of moral knowledge in everyday immorality: What does it matter if I know what is right?." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2014
Chen X., Dang C., Keng-Highberger F., "Broadening the motivation to cooperate: Revisiting the role of sanctions in social dilemmas." 2014
Reynolds S. J., Dang C., "Should every manager become a Kantian? The empirical evidence and normative implications of the Kantian personality in organizations." 2012

Editorship

Academy of Management Journal, Editorial Board, July 2022 - June 2025

Honors and Awards

Academy of Management Journal Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, (Aug 1, 2024)

Smeal College of Business Cooke Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, (Jan 1, 2017)

Anderson School of Management Summer Research Proposal Award, University of New Mexico, (May 1, 2016)

Anderson School of Management Creative Enterprises Fellowship, University of New Mexico, (Jan 1, 2016)

Anderson School of Management Daniel’s Ethics Fellow, University of New Mexico, (Jan 1, 2016)

PhD Program Teaching Award, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, (Dec 31, 2014)

Anderson School of Management Foundation Fellowship, University of New Mexico, (Jan 1, 2014)

Excellence in Ethics Dissertation Proposal Competition Finalist, University of Notre Dame, (Dec 31, 2013)

Social Issues in Management Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management division, (Dec 31, 2011)