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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
Office: 342 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1674
E-mail: leana@pitt.edu
Degrees
PhD, University of Houston
BA, Baylor University
Area
Global Management 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 area of organizational behavior and management. She has published more than 70 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 labor unions. Her book (with Denise Rousseau), Relational Wealth: The Advantages of Stability in a Changing Economy (Oxford University Press, 2000), 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 recent paper, Social Capital and Organizational Performance (with F. Pil) received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2007 Best Paper Prize in Industry Studies.
Leana was named the 2007-08 winner of the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award for Academic Leadership. This highly competitive prize is given for demonstrated leadership in integrating social impact topics into business school courses and curriculum design, as well as generating cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on social impact.
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; Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria; and Comenius University. Leana's research has been supported by such institutions as the National Science Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.
At the University of Pittsburgh she is 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.
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)
Pinto, J., Leana, C. and Pil, F. (2008) “Corrupt organizations or organizations of corrupt individuals? Two models of organizational corruption.” Academy of Management Review, in press.
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
Leana, C. (2002) "The changing organizational context of careers," In D. Feldman (Ed.) Work careers: A developmental perspective, Jossey-Bass, pp. 274-293.
Books:
Leana, C.R. and Rousseau, D. (2000) Eds. Relational Wealth: The Advantages of Stability in a Changing Economy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Current Working Papers
Appelbaum, E. and Leana, C. “Little pay but lots of say: An examination of job crafting by childcare workers.”
Pil, F. and Leana, C. “Applying organization research to public school reform.”
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. “Designing work in context: Organizational and occupational influences on how professionals craft their jobs.
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
Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award, 2003
Excellence in Teaching Award, Katz School, 2004
Viterbo Chair, Fulbright Commission, 2001-02
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, 2007-09 ($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, Perspectives on Work.
Current Leadership Positions: (Co-Chair) Work and Employment Research Section, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA); (Chair-elect) Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management; Steering Committee: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Teams
Board of Directors: United Cerebral Palsy; Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania; Regional Jobs Corporation.