Kristina M. Workman

Biography

Kristina Workman is an associate teaching professor of management at the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. She studies affirmative interpersonal dynamics — how people relate at work in ways that foster acknowledgment, respect and support — connecting her scholarship to areas such as prosocial behavior and behavioral ethics.

Workman’s research examines affirmative interpersonal dynamics, or in other words, how individuals at work do (or do not) relate in ways that foster acknowledgment, respect, and support. She explores prosocial behavior, behavioral ethics, compassion, leadership, sharing and responding to news at work and the small actions that shape relational contexts over time. Her work highlights individuals’ agency in determining how interpersonal encounters unfold and how their relational context at work develops.

She has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Journal of Management Inquiry.

Workman earned her Ph.D. in management and organizations from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and graduated summa cum laude with a B.B.A. in management and psychology from the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Education

PhD Ross School of Business, University Of Michigan, 2014
BBA Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005