Jessica A. Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Management
Research Interests/Areas of Expertise
Power and Status, Ethics, Gender
Subject Areas
Organization Studies
Biography
Biography
Lending her expertise to Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, and other news outlets, Jessica Kennedy’s work on ethical behavior, hierarchies, and gender is relevant for any organization.
Awards & Accomplishments
Kennedy has earned several research awards, including Best Article in 2016 from Business Ethics Quarterly, Owen's Research Productivity Award in 2017, and the INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal in 2011.
Leadership
Professor Kennedy serves on the Editorial Board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Management.
Publications
Professor Kennedy has published in outlets such as Administrative Science
Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes, Research in Organizational
Behavior, the Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, and Business Ethics Quarterly.
Teaching
At
Vanderbilt, Professor Kennedy teaches Negotiation as well as Leading Teams and Organizations for the MBA program.
Research Interests
Professor Kennedy’s research lies at the intersection of three distinct yet inter-related topics: power and status hierarchies, ethical behavior, and gender. Her research has been published in top academic and practitioner journals of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Ethics. Recent studies by Kennedy have found that holding higher-ranking positions can blind people to unethical practices they are responsible for stopping, gender differences in moral identity can help to explain why and when women negotiate more ethically than men, and that political correctness norms can enable creative performance in diverse (but not homogeneous) groups.
Education
PhD, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkley, 2012
BS, summa cum laude, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Phone
615-322-2534
Select Publications
Articles
OBHDP - Gender and deception
Kray, L. J., Kennedy, J. A., & Van Zant, A. B. (2014). Not competent enough to know the difference? Gender stereotypes about women’s ease of being misled predict negotiator deception. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 125, 61-72.
Status and Overconfidence II
Kennedy, J. A., Anderson, C., & Moore, D. M. (2013). When overconfidence is revealed to others: Testing the status-enhancement theory of overconfidence. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 122 (2), 266-279
Gender and ethical compromises
Kennedy, J. A., & Kray, L. J. (2013). Who is willing to sacrifice ethical values for money and social status? Gender differences in reactions to ethical compromises. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5 (1), 52-59.
Status and Overconfidence I
Anderson, C., Brion, S., Moore, D. M., & Kennedy, J. A. (2012). A status-enhancement account of overconfidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103 (4), 718-735.
JESP - Gender and trust
Haselhuhn, M. P., Kennedy, J. A., Kray, L. J., Van Zant, A., & Schweitzer, M. E. (2014). Gender differences in trust dynamics: Women trust more than men following a trust violation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 104-109.
ASQ - PC norms
Goncalo, J. A., Chatman, J. A., Duguid, M. M., & Kennedy, J. A. (2015). Creativity from constraint? How the political correctness norm influences creativity in mixed-sex work groups. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60, 1-30.
Gender ROB
Kennedy, J. A., & Kray, L. J. (2015). A pawn in someone else's game? The cognitive, motivational, and paradigmatic barriers to women's excelling in negotiation. Research in Organizational Behavior, 35, 3-28.
Dignity BEQ paper
Kennedy, J. A., Kim, T. W., & Strudler, A. (2016). Hierarchies and dignity: A Confucian communitarian approach. Business Ethics Quarterly, 26, 479-502.
JBE - Mindsets and deception
Haselhuhn, M. P., Kray, L. J., Schweitzer, M. E., & Kennedy, J. A. (in press). Perceptions of high integrity can persist after deception: How implicit beliefs moderate trust erosion. Journal of Business Ethics.
Moral identity
Kennedy, J. A., Kray, L. J., & Ku, G. (2017). A social-cognitive approach to understanding gender differences in negotiator ethics: The role of moral identity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 138, 28-44.
Rank and PD
Kennedy, J. A., & Anderson, C. (2017). Hierarchical rank and principled dissent: How holding higher rank suppresses objection to unethical practices. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 139, 30-49.
Chapters
Micropolitics Chapter
Anderson, C., & Kennedy, J. A. (2012). A micropolitics model of status hierarchies in teams. In E. Mannix & M. Neale (Eds.), Research in managing groups and teams (Vol. 15, pp. 49-80). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
PC Norms chapter RMGT
Chatman, J. A., Goncalo, J. A., Kennedy, J. A., & Duguid, M. M. (2012). Political correctness and group composition: A research agenda. In E. Mannix, & M. Neale (Eds.), Research on managing groups and teams (Vol. 15, pp. 161-183). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Harvard Leadership Chapter
Chatman, J. A. & Kennedy, J. A. (2010). Psychological perspectives on leadership. In N. Nohria, & R. Khurana (Eds.), Leadership: Advancing the discipline (pp. 159-182). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.
Video & Podcasts
Videos
Phone
615-322-2534