Excited to share my work on how to achieve success when you're an underdog at work. Thankful to all of my colleagues, friends and family who have supported me as I pursued this research over 7+ years--I hope the final product makes them proud and does NOT prove them wrong :)

Reposting--the remarkable @timkundro synthesizing our new paper on the impact of time delays on punishment. Maybe someone can teach us how to share it on Threads?

Rather than only emphasizing the need for diversity efforts, consider inviting allies to contribute to the efforts. Tailoring diversity efforts to involve allies reduces those concerns and increases their involvement. We all have a role to play https://t.co/TNz3pjxUH6 #poweritup

Work moralizers don't underperform at creative tasks. They just take a different route to arrive at creative ideas. New paper by @timkundro #WhartonOBPlace2Be

In other words, to experience less retaliation, high-powered women should use a rationale that explains how their objections stand to benefit others and their organizations when speaking out at work. 4/4

As an antidote, they find that women can use an organizational frame (e.g., "these hiring practices will impede our organization's ability to hire talent") rather than a standard frame (e.g., "these hiring practices are immoral") to mitigate the retaliation they experience. 3/4

New research by @timkundro and @NRothbard demonstrates that it does not. When high-power women morally object at work, they experience greater retaliation since they are seen as having less self-control than men. 2/4

#Power often protects people when they speak out against #unethical behavior. But does power shield women as much as it shields men who speak out against unethical behavior? https://t.co/3Oq62RjCul #poweritup 1/4

Here's the link to the open access article:

We hope it encourages more collaborations between micro and macro #organizationalbehavior as crossing levels of analysis is crucial to understanding the punishment of unethical behavior and misconduct better. It's open access so you can download it and send it to your mom! 4/4

We propose a mezzo level theory of punishment, highlighting the role of #blame attributions and three key mechanisms: status, character and reputation, and embeddedness. 3/4

We realized that despite rich disciplinary research on #punishment for #unethical behavior and #misconduct, there is less work integrating research on punishment across disciplines and levels. 2/4

A day after #ElizabethHolmes was found guilty, it seems timely to mention this new paper with @maemcdonnell. It starts with a basic question: why are some individuals punished more vs. less severely for behaving unethically than the organizations at which they work? 1/4

@Wharton @whartonknows @NDBusiness @JHUCarey @AOM_OB @ELSpsychology @Penn @NotreDame @JohnsHopkins So excited to see our paper out since it’s a collab w/ 2 good friends, @timkundro & @ChrisGMyers. Hope it advances research on the power of #storytelling via self-narratives. We have so much to learn from the resilience of job seekers #startedfromthebottom #nomorehashtags End/5

@Wharton @whartonknows @NDBusiness @JHUCarey @AOM_OB @ELSpsychology @Penn @NotreDame @JohnsHopkins Obviously, job seekers would have been better off had they never experienced #discrimination. There’s no magic wand to make its repercussions disappear. But we can learn a lot about how people frame prior #adversity to persist in their careers and lives 4/5

@Wharton @whartonknows @NDBusiness @JHUCarey @AOM_OB @ELSpsychology @Penn @NotreDame @JohnsHopkins Telling #underdog narratives isn’t enough. You need to reflect on the #stories and apply them to future situations. Our research builds on recent studies on #discrimination, which notes that suppression of prior #adversity is destructive 3/5

@Wharton @whartonknows @NDBusiness @JHUCarey @AOM_OB @ELSpsychology @Penn @NotreDame @JohnsHopkins Underdog narratives involve defying others’ low expectations whereas fav narratives affirm others’ high expectations. We find that UD narratives (vs fav narratives) more effectively offset repercussions of prior discrimination on performance via efficacy among job seekers 2/5

How do individuals persist in face of prior experiences of #discrimination? One way is through the stories they tell themselves. #Underdog & #favorite narratives feature similar endings (#success) but have different beginnings & narrative arcs https://t.co/zlRdM2Yf5R 1/5 at OBHDP

How do we learn from others’ experiences when work is increasingly dispersed, dynamic & ambiguous? One way is to tell stories! In this in-press @ASQJournal paper, I explore how storytelling supports vicarious learning among air medical transport crews. A🧵 https://t.co/mnxg6rknyC

What happens when an academic and a comedian get together to discuss your research? You learn a lot and laugh your head off while listening! Thank you @DanCable1 @AkinOmobitan

#poweritup we talked about this previously in class, and how women in the Obama White House did this. Glad to see some empirical data to shed light on its effectiveness!