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Glen Kreiner

Assistant Professor of Management
Department: Management and Organization
Office: 443 Business Building
Phone: 814-867-2381
Fax: 814-863-7261
E-mail: gek12@psu.edu
Member of Faculty Since: 2007

Introduction

Professor Glen Kreiner received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Communications and a Master's of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. Professor Kreiner serves on the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly and reviews regularly for several leading management journals. He has published his research in the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Human Relations, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Human Resource Management Review. His research findings have also been reported on by the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and print and broadcast news organizations internationally. He has received two prestigious awards from the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division: (1) Best Conference Paper, 2006, for “Boundary work tactics: Negotiating the work-home interface”; (2) Outstanding Publication, 2007, for “Where is the ‘Me’ among the ‘We’? Identity work and the search for optimal balance”.

Current Research

His research areas include role transitions (how people alternate among their many roles), dirty work (how workers and managers in stigmatized occupations deal with stigma), emotions in the workplace (such as how people shift from one emotion to another as part of their work), social identification (how individuals define themselves by their jobs, organizations, and professions), and organization identity change (how organizations respond to threats/changes to their identity). Currently, he is engaging in a multi-method, long-term research project on the Episcopal Church (“The Episcopal Identity Project”). He is also conducting research on temporary workers, stigmatized managers, organizational responses to allegations of corruption, and the social and systemic factors involved in the recent subprime mortgage financial crisis.

Publication List

Kreiner, G.E., Hollensbe, E.C., & Sheep, M.L., "Balancing Borders and Bridges: Negotiating the work-home interface via boundary work tactics",  Academy of Management Journal, 2009, 52, pp. 704-730.

Sundaramurthy, C. & Kreiner, G.E., "Governing by managing identity boundaries: The case of family businesses",  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2008, 32, pp. 391-591.

Ashforth, B.E., Kreiner, G.E., Clark, M.A., & Fugate, M., "Normalizing dirty work: Managerial tactics for countering occupational taint",  Academy of Management Journal, 2007, 50, pp.149-174.

Kreiner, G.E., Hollensbe, E.C., & Sheep, M.L., "Where is the “Me” among the “We”? Identity work and the search for optimal balance",  Academy of Management Journal, 2006, 49, pp.1031-1057.

Kreiner, G.E., Ashforth, B.E., Sluss, D.M., "Identity dynamics in occupational dirty work: Integrating social identity and system justification perspectives",  Organization Science, 2006, 17, pp. 619-636.

Kreiner, G.E., "Consequences of work-home segmentation or integration: A person-environment fit perspective",  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2006, 27, pp. 485-507.

Kreiner, G.E., Hollensbe, E.C., & Sheep, M.L. , "On the edge of identity: Boundary dynamics at the interface of individual and organizational identities",  Human Relations, 2006, 59, pp. 1315-1341.

Kreiner, G.E. & Ashforth, B.E., "Evidence toward an expanded model of organizational identification",  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2004, 25, pp. 1-27.

Education

Ph.D., Business Administration, Arizona State University,  2001 
M.O.B., Organizational Behavior, Brigham Young University,  1995 
B.A., Communications, Brigham Young University,  1992 

Courses

BA 502, Team Process and Performance
MGMT 326, Organizational Behavior & Design
MGMT 520, Team Facilitation