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Carrie R. Leana
George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management
Secondary Appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public and International Affairs
Director, Center for Health and Care Work (http://www.business.pitt.edu/chcw/)
Office: 362 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1674
E-mail: leana@pitt.edu
Degrees
PhD, University of Houston
BA, Baylor University
Area
Organizations and Entrepreneurship
Courses Recently Taught
Organizational Behavior (EMBA; Global EMBA; MBA)
Foundations of Organizational Behavior (PhD)
Social Capital Theory and Research (PhD)
Profile
Carrie Leana's research and training are in the areas of organizational behavior and management. She has published more than 100 articles on such topics as authority structures at work, employment relations, and the process and effects of organizational change and restructuring. Her research is field-based and has been conducted in such settings as steel mills, public schools, insurance claims offices, aerospace contractors, police departments, and nursing homes. Her book (with Denise Rousseau), Relational Wealth: The Advantages of Stability in a Changing Economy (Oxford University Press), describes the tension between stability and flexibility in work design, and how both can be used to the mutual advantage of employees and employers. Her earlier book, Coping with Job Loss: How Individuals, Organizations, and Communities Respond to Layoffs (with Daniel Feldman), was short listed for the National Academy of Management's Best Book of the Year Award. Her article, Social Capital and Organizational Performance (with F. Pil) received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2007 Best Paper Prize in Industry Studies. . Leana was also named the 2007-08 winner of the Aspen Institute's Faculty Pioneer Award for Academic Leadership, awarded for generating cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on social impact.
At the University of Pittsburgh, Leana is Director of the Center for Health and Care Work, a collaboration of the Katz School and the Medical School. The goals of the CHCW are to facilitate interdisciplinary research addressing economic and workforce opportunities in the direct care sector; and develop training and executive education programs that apply the research findings of the CHCW to policy and practice. At Pitt, she is also on the Advisory Board of the European Union Center and the Center for West European Studies and is an associate at the Learning Research and Development Center.
In 2001-02 Leana was awarded the Viterbo Chair by the U.S. Fulbright Commission and spent four months lecturing and conducting research in Europe. She has held visiting international appointments at the Australian Graduate School of Management; the University of Melbourne; La Universita degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy; Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile; and Comenius University, Slovakia. Leana's research has been recently supported by the National Science Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the PA Department of Labor, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.
Leana's teaching focuses on graduate students and executives. She works extensively with doctoral students in and outside the Katz School. Leana developed the Katz School's MBA Essentials eecutive program and currently directs the UPMC-Katz Physician Leadership Program. She is past director of the Executive MBA Program and the Management Program for Executives. She has taught in various academic and executive programs in North America as well as in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
Leana is active in community affairs, serves on several non-profit boards, and in 2003 was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award in recognition of her community service. She has written essays and features about her research for popular press outlets such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Chicago Tribute Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times.
She was on the faculty of Management at the University of Florida for three years before joining the Katz School at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988.
Publications (last five years)
Leana, C.R., Appelbaum, E. & Shevchuk, I. (2009) Work process and quality of care: Encouraging positive job crafting in childcare classrooms. Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming.
Mittal, V., Rosen, J. & Leana, C. (2009) A dual-process model of retention and turnover in the direct care workforce: Insights from qualitative research. The Gerontologist, forthcoming.
Pil, F. & Leana, C. (2009) Applying organization research to public school reform. Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming.
Pinto, J., Leana, C. & Pil, F. (2008) Corrupt organizations or organizations of corrupt individuals? Two models of organizational corruption. Academy of Management Review, 33: 685-709.
Pil, F. & Leana, C. (2008) Applying organizational research to public school reform. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Leana, C. and Pil, F. (2006) "Social capital and organizational performance: Evidence from urban public schools," Organization Science, 13(3), 1-14.
Leana, C. (2006) Review of N. Riccucci’s "How Management Matters: Street-level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform." International Public Management Journal, 9(3), 367-370.
Ghitulescu, B. and Leana, C. (2005) "Human resource management practices in the knowledge economy: Developing human and social capital," In R. Burke and C. Cooper (eds.) The Human Resources Revolution: Research and Practice, Elsevier.
Feldman, D. and Leana, C. (2003) "Underemployment among downsized executives: Test of a mediated effects mode," Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 75, 453-472.
Appelbaum, E., Batt, R. and Leana, C. (2003) "Social capital at work," Perspectives on Work, Industrial Relations Research Association
Current Working Papers
Leana, C., Mittal, V. & Stiehl, E. "Organizational behavior and the working poor" (Under review).
Shevchuk, I., Leana, C. and Mittal, V. “Employee retention and organizational performance: The mediating role of organization- and task-specific forms of human and social capital.”
Ghitulescu, B. and Leana, C. "Contextual effects on adaptive and proactive behaviors at work" (Under review).
Shevchuk, I., Mittal, V. and Leana, C. “Job attitudes as predictors of employee turnover: Systematic threshold effects and response biases.”
Awards and Honors (last five years)
Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award in Academic Leadership, 2007-2008
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Best Paper Prize, 2007
Excellence in Teaching Award, Katz School, 2004, 2005
Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award, 2003
External Grant Awards (last five years)
PI: "Quality care through quality jobs: Retention and development of the direct care workforce." PA Department of Labor and Industry, 2008-09 ($250,000).
PI: "Improving direct care work: Integrating theory, research, and practice." Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2007-09 ($45,000).
PI: "Retention and development of the direct care workforce." Heinz Endowments, 2008-09 ($100,000).
PI: “Quality care through quality jobs: Retention and development of the direct care workforce.” PA Department of Labor and Industry, 2007-08 ($250,000).
PI: “Retention and development of the direct care workforce.” Heinz Endowments, 2007-08 ($100,000).
Co-PI: “Turnover of direct care workers.” Jewish Healthcare Foundation, 2006-07 ($40,000).
Co-PI: “Scaling up mathematics: The interface of curricula with human and social capital.” National Science Foundation, 2003-08, ($6 million).
Co-PI: “Social capital and industrial performance.” Sloan Foundation, 2002-03 ($45,000).
Co-PI: “Social capital at work.” Sloan Foundation, 2003 ($44,000).
External Service and Assignments
Current Editorial Boards: Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Science, International Public Management Journal
Current Leadership Positions: (Co-Chair) Work and Employment Research Section, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA); (Program Chair) Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management; Steering Committee: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Teams
