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Katherine W. Phillips

Associate Professor
Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Center on the Science of Diversity

Management and Organizations

B.A. 1994, Psychology, University of Illinois; Ph.D. 1999, Business-Organization Behavior, Stanford University

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Associate Professor, 2006; Assistant Professor 1999-2006

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Management & Organizations 430 - Leadership in Organizations
Management & Organizations 460 - Leading and Managing Teams
Management & Organizations 424-2 - Social Processes in Organizations (PhD course)
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
 

Top 20 nominee for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research 2006
Dorothy Harlow Award Runner-up for the Gender, Diversity and Organizations Division of the Academy of Management, August 2001
Outstanding Empirical Paper Award, International Association of Conflict Management, June 2000
Best Paper Award, Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, August 1999
State Farm Dissertation Proposal Award, 1998

   
Research Areas
  Information sharing, intergroup relations, conflict, diversity, minority influence, decision-making and performance in work groups.
   
Current Projects
  Current projects examine the effects of status, categorization, expectancy violation, minority influence and incongruence on group performance and information sharing
   
Representative Publications
 

Mannix, E. A., Neale, M. A., & Phillips, K. W. (Eds.) (in press). Research on managing groups and teams: Diversity and groups (Volume 11). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Dumas, T. L., Rothbard, N. P., & Phillips, K. W. (in press). Self disclosure: beneficial for cohesion in demographically diverse work groups? In Mannix, E. A., Neale, M. A., & Phillips, K. W. (Eds.) Research on managing groups and teams: Diversity and groups (Volume 11). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Swaab, R. I., Phillips, K. W., Diermeier, D., & Medvec, V. H. (in press). The pros and cons of dyadic conversations in small groups: The impact of group norms and task type. Small Group Research.

Zhong, C. B., Phillips, K. W., Leonardelli, G. J., & Galinsky, A. D. (in press). Negational categorization and intergroup behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Rosette, A. S., Leonardelli, G. J. & Phillips, K. W. (in press). The white standard: Racial bias in leader categorization. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Lount, R., Jr., & Phillips, K. W. (2007). Working harder with the out-group: The impact of social category diversity on motivation gains. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103, 214-224.

Phillips, K. W., & Lount, R. Jr. (2007). The affective consequences of diversity and homogeneity in groups. In E. Mannix, M. A. Neale, and C. Anderson (Eds), Research on Managing in Groups and Teams (Vol. 10, pp. 1-20). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Phillips, K. W., & Thomas-Hunt, M. C. (2007). Garnering the benefits of conflict: The role of diversity and status distance in groups. In K. Behfar and L. Thompson (Eds.), Conflict in Organizational Groups: New Directions in Theory and Practice. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Phillips, K.W., & Loyd, D. L. (2006). "When surface and deep-level diversity collide: The effects on dissenting group members." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 99, 143-160.

Phillips, K. W., & Thomas-Hunt, M. (2004). "When what you know is not enough: Expertise and gender dynamics in task groups." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1585-1598.

Phillips, K. W., Mannix, E., Neale, M., & Gruenfeld, D. (2004). "Diverse groups and information sharing: The effects of congruent ties." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 497-510.

Phillips, K. W. (2003). "The effects of categorically based expectations on minority influence: The importance of congruence." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 3-13.

O’Reilly, C. A., Williams, K. Y., & Barsade, S. (1998). "Group demography and innovation: Does diversity help?" In D. Gruenfeld & M. A. Neale (Eds.), Research on Managing in Groups and Teams, Vol. 1, 183-207. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Williams, K. Y., & O’Reilly, C. A. (1998). "Demography and diversity in organizations: A review of 40 years of research." In B. Staw & R. Sutton (Eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 20, 77-140. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

 

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